RTL will not be adding a new panel member to The Masked Singer following the death of Loretta Schrijver. The program will continue with the four panel members who sat alongside Schrijver in the previous season, an RTL spokesperson confirms.
RTL’s confirmation follows statements made by Carlo Boszhard on Shownieuws. Boszhard, who, like Schrijver, had been on the panel since the first season in 2019, said that the presenter is “irreplaceable” and that the panel will therefore remain unchanged.
In addition to Boszhard, Gerard Joling and Buddy Vedder have been there from the start. Monica Geuze became the fifth panel member in 2023. RTL will launch a new, seventh season of The Masked Singer this fall.
Schrijver passed away in March at the age of 68 due to the effects of cancer. In the summer of 2024, the presenter announced that the colon cancer she had been operated on three years earlier had returned and metastasized.