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The surprising celeb behind the Sloth on The Masked Singer revealed

<p>Tuesday’s episode of The Masked Singer saw singer Katie Noonan revealed as the Sloth.</p> <p>After taking off her mask, the acclaimed 43-year-old chanteuse left the show’s judges stunned, with none of them able to guess her identity.</p> <p>“Hey, you guys already have a season under your belt. How did you get it this wrong?!” said new judge Urzila Carlson.</p> <p>After listing her musical accomplishments, host Osher Gunsberg labelled her as “one of the greatest voices in the country”.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEBxz9RlwvZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEBxz9RlwvZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">SPOILER ALERT: Sloth is unmasked in 3... 2... 1... #MaskedSingerAU</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/themaskedsingerau/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> The Masked Singer Australia</a> (@themaskedsingerau) on Aug 18, 2020 at 3:45am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>“One hundred per cent she is! Breathe is my favourite song!” said judge Dave Hughes, who was visibly annoyed he failed to guess Katie.</p> <p>The comedian later said: “I’m so embarrassed. One of the best voices Australia’s ever produced. I listen to you all the time.”</p> <p>Even Jackie was surprised that none of them were able to guess correctly.</p> <p>“You have one of the most distinctive, most celebrated voices in the country, and you are standing in a seven-foot-tall blue furry suit on our stage,” acknowledged Jackie</p> <p>Katie revealed her decision behind her coming on the show was because it looked like “so much fun”.</p> <p>“I love the idea of getting out of my comfort zone. It's something that I've always really been into,” she continued.</p> <p>When asked how the experience of appearing on the show disguised as a Sloth compared to playing concerts around the world, Katie admitted it didn't.</p> <p>“It doesn't [compare]. To anything. Couldn't possibly compare to anything,” she laughed. </p>

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Cop saves terrified sloth stuck on highway

<p>Why did the sloth cross the road? We may never know as one poor sloth in Quevedo, Ecuador never made it to his final destination. He was rescued from the middle of a busy highway road by the police, who posted the pictures of the rescue mission on their Facebook page.</p> <p>And as you can tell from the smile from the sloth’s face, it seems the cops arrived just in time!</p> <p><img width="456" height="581" src="http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/police-rescue-sloth-cross-highway-ecuador-1.jpg" alt="police-rescue-sloth-cross-highway-ecuador-1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-377442" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p> <p><strong>Related links: </strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/01/best-advice-ever-received-video/">People aged 5 to 105 reveal the best advice they’ve ever received</a></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/01/photos-of-animals-hitchhiking/">Hilarious photos of animals hitchhiking</a></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2015/12/cheap-school-holiday-activities/">30 cheap – or free – holiday activities to do with grandkids</a></em></strong></span></p>

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Meet the world’s newest non-human astronaut

<p>Finally the world is sending a sloth in a spacesuit to the moon… well kind of.</p><p>Lunar Mission One (LMO), a commercial space project, is planning to launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2017 and intends to leave a time capsule providing an extensive record of human life.</p><p>In a move that will surely provide a great deal of confusion aliens from the future, a picture of a sloth wearing a spacesuit is going to be included as a part of this record.&nbsp;</p><p><img width="500" height="638" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/10372/astronaut-sloth_500x638.jpg" alt="Astronaut Sloth" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p><p><em>Image credit: Tumblr /&nbsp;Pedro Dionisio</em></p><p>The picture, a famous internet meme created by Portuguese graphic designer Pedro Dionísio, was selected by online community Reddit to be part of the package LMO will be leaving on the moon.</p><p>The image of the sloth in the spacesuit has taken the internet by storm, but is the product of Mr Dionísio figuring out how to crop animal heads on different bodies. Mr Dionísio had intended to throw the image out, but his girlfriend thought the picture was funny and posted it online.</p><p>From there the image of the astronaut sloth took the internet by storm.</p><p>Mr Dionísio was somewhat surprised when he was contacted by <em>The Washington Post</em> about the decision to send a picture of an astronaut sloth to space, saying, “That's crazy, this is news to me. I've been spending the last 24 hours ... thinking about how I'm going to write this into my portfolio.”</p>

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Meet the world’s newest non-human astronaut

<p>Finally the world is sending a sloth in a spacesuit to the moon… well kind of.</p><p>Lunar Mission One (LMO), a commercial space project, is planning to launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2017 and intends to leave a time capsule providing an extensive record of human life.</p><p>In a move that will surely provide a great deal of confusion aliens from the future, a picture of a sloth wearing a spacesuit is going to be included as a part of this record.&nbsp;</p><p><img width="500" height="638" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/10372/astronaut-sloth_500x638.jpg" alt="Astronaut Sloth" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p><p><em>Image credit: Tumblr /&nbsp;Pedro Dionisio</em></p><p>The picture, a famous internet meme created by Portuguese graphic designer Pedro Dionísio, was selected by online community Reddit to be part of the package LMO will be leaving on the moon.</p><p>The image of the sloth in the spacesuit has taken the internet by storm, but is the product of Mr Dionísio figuring out how to crop animal heads on different bodies. Mr Dionísio had intended to throw the image out, but his girlfriend thought the picture was funny and posted it online.</p><p>From there the image of the astronaut sloth took the internet by storm.</p><p>Mr Dionísio was somewhat surprised when he was contacted by <em>The Washington Post</em> about the decision to send a picture of an astronaut sloth to space, saying, “That's crazy, this is news to me. I've been spending the last 24 hours ... thinking about how I'm going to write this into my portfolio.”</p><p><strong>Related links:</strong></p><p><a href="/news/news/2015/10/comet-lovejoy-produces-alcohol/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Comet emits 500 bottles of alcohol every second</strong></em></span></a></p><p><a href="/news/news/2015/10/bonsai-tree-outer-space/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Artist sends bonsai tree to outer space</strong></em></span></a></p><p><a href="/news/news/2015/10/nasa-buddha-statue-mars/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Buddha statue found on Mars</strong></em></span></a></p>

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Is this the world’s cutest animal?

<p>Lazy. Dirty. Poor lifestyle habits. So just how is it possible for the cutest animal in the world to supposedly possess these traits? You won’t even care after scrolling through these images. Cue the “oohs” and “aahs”! Just look at the charmed faces of this group at the <a href="http://www.slothsanctuary.com/">Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica</a>.</p><p>“It's very easy to fall in love with a sloth,” confirms guide Jeff Rochte, clearly himself smitten with the slow-moving, ever-smiling animals.</p><p>Rochte, an American who has lived in Costa Rica for the past nine years, is here to help carry on the legacy started by his grandparents – Alaskan Judy Avey-Arroyo and her late husband, Costa Rican Luis Arroyo.</p><p>The couple bought 230 acres of land on the Caribbean Coast in 1972, with the aim of protecting the lowland tropical rainforest. In the early days, they found themselves helping injured toucans, pythons, armadillos and other exotic creatures, before the first sloth in need of care arrived in 1992.</p><p>Since then the sanctuary has nurtured hundreds of troubled sloths, releasing 120 back into the wild.</p><p><strong>Related links:</strong></p><p><strong><em><span><a href="/news/news/2015/02/thieves-love-tourists/" target="_blank">Most popular tourist destinations for thieves</a></span></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><span><a href="/news/news/2015/02/bodybuilding-bulls/" target="_blank">Your eyes are not fooling you, these are bodybuilding bulls</a></span></em></strong></p><div><strong><em><span><a href="/news/news/2015/02/village-for-dementia-patients/%20" target="_blank">An amazing village that is care centre for dementia patients</a></span></em></strong></div>

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