John Oates Talks Daryl Hall Lawsuit After ‘Masked Singer’ Reveal

John Oates might be staring down a legal battle with his onetime musical partner, Daryl Hall, but that couldn’t stop him from trying to make his dreams come true on The Masked Singer. On Wednesday night, however, Oates finally went home—and even more tragically, none of the judges could figure out the rhyming connection between his Anteater costume and the Hall & Oates hit song “Maneater.”

In the end, all three judges guessed that Oates was someone else: Nicole Scherzinger guessed John Mellencamp, Robin Thicke went with Jackson Browne, Ken Jeong thought Billy Joel, and Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg posited he was Steven Van Zandt.

Although he was disappointed to go home, Oates told Variety, “I was flattered by the comparisons they were making. I really liked the fact that they were comparing me to some of my favorite singers.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.