'They thought I was dead': Dick Van Dyke on why people were shocked by his Masked Singer appearance
Dick Van Dyke joked people were surprised when he was unmasked on 'The Masked Singer' because they "thought [he] was dead". The 'Mary Poppins' actor's elimination in the first episode of the new series of the show was teased as "the most legendary, decorated and beloved unmasking in history," and the 97-year-old star admitted he didn't think any of the panel - Robin Thicke, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Jenny McCarthy - would have predicted he'd be the man behind the Gnome. Asked about the guesses he was Tony Bennett, Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro, he told Entertainment Weekly: "I felt ...