Someone contacted my manager and we discussed it and I thought it would be really good because it meant my lovely wife, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, might get a great sense of fun out of it if she managed to guess who it was. But I’m wondering what inspired you to take the plunge. I’ve done a number of these interviews and typically the person will say they watch the show with their kids or they said yes to delight their children. We spoke with Lydon before his elimination to find out what motivated him, why his beloved bejeweled codpiece didn’t make it to air, and what feelings a 21-year-old Johnny Rotten would have said about such anarchy in the U.S. In fact, the flame-haired firestarter tells Billboard he actually agreed to strut his stuff in the hilariously weird harlequin costume for the sweetest possible reason. Though known as snot-rocket-shooting, journalist-baiting, queen-thrashing, anarchy-advocating sourpuss alter ego Johnny Rotten in the Pistols and a progressive post-punk noisemaker in Public Image Ltd., Lydon, 65, did not sign on to perform on the family-friendly show as some kind of postmodern joke.
In the end, when the Jester head came off, the man inside the mask was none other than legendarily irascible punk progenitor John Lydon of the Sex Pistols and PiL. They were all, of course, terribly, terribly wrong. Their off-the-mark suggestions ranged from Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Black, Howard Stern and always-wrong Ken Jeong’s suggestions: SpaceX billionaire boss Elon Musk or mean reality judge Simon Cowell. The judges didn’t know what to do with this oddball character, with Robin Thicke praising him for bringing some “metal” edge to the typically poppy prime-time series and the panel swinging wildly with their guesses.
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