A-ha frontman Morten Harket has opened up about his time as Viking on The Masked Singer, describing it as "taxing at all times" due to technical difficulties.

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In an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com, the Norwegian singer revealed that he struggled with audio problems whilst performing on stage.

Speaking about his The Masked Singer experience, he said: "It was taxing at all times really – I knew I would be in for a treat because I had no control of most of the conditions.

"Sonically, my foldback was really poor but that was my own fault for using my own system, the one I still have, because I've been so attached to it and it's worked so well for so long but it's too old and I should let it go. It was failing me.

"So that kind of added to it, but being inside of it was decidedly uncomfortable," he laughed.

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Harket added that he was surprised that the panellists didn't guess Viking was him after he sung his own song – A-ha's Take On Me – in Week Five.

"I thought both the clues, a number of them anyway, and my voice, which again because of my sound problems I couldn't really be very playful with it, [would give me away].

"I couldn't dodge things with the voice. I might have done it different I think, it would have been different for me if I was focused or was able to focus properly but that wasn't the case.

"So I ended up sounding more like me than I would have because I just needed to, I don't know, aim through a very foggy windscreen."

During Saturday night's show, Harket became the sixth celebrity to be unmasked this series, followed shortly after by Lenny Henry, who was masquerading as Blob.

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