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Prickly business: Backlash over R-rated Cactus dance

<p><span>Channel Ten has boasted about their family friendly programs in the past, including <em>The Masked Singer.</em></span><br /><br /><span>However the channel has caught flack after viewers sat through a performance by Cactus who sang the smash-hit I Touch Myself by the Divinyls on Tuesday.</span><br /><br /><span>“The Cactus with Boobs is singing The Divinyls' <em>I Touch Myself</em>... WHOLESOME FAMILY VIEWING MY A***,” commented one viewer on Twitter with a laughing emoji attached.</span><br /><br /><span>“Really didn't need to see a cactus touching its pot,” a second person said.</span><br /><br /><span>A third viewer commented on the absurdity of the performance.</span><br /><br /><span>“I can't wait to explain to future generations that a cactus with boobs once sang about masturbation on national TV and that that wasn’t even remotely the weirdest thing to happen in 2020,” they wrote.</span><br /><br /><span>“So a Cactus with boobs is singing <em>I Touch Myself</em> during prime time that's Channel 10 for you,' added a fourth viewer.</span><br /><br /><span>They added: “the irony of a cactus singing about touching itself.”</span><br /><br /><span>Host Osher Günsberg couldn't help but get a word in either, tweeting: “Singing about masturbating. Brilliant.”</span><br /><br /><span>Judges Dannii Minogue, Urzila Carlson, Dave Hughes and Jackie 'O' Henderson all took a turn to guess who the star hiding behind the prickly costume was.</span><br /><br /><span>Their guesses ranged from comedian Julia Morris, to actress Jane Seymour, singer Ella Hooper and <em>MasterChef</em> star Poh Ling Yeow.</span></p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7837526/the-masked-singer-5.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/04f336bac3da4eeea23090a92aa1feed" /><br /><br /><span>At the end of Tuesday night's episode, the Wizard was revealed to be Isaiah Firebrace.</span><br /><br /><span>Jackie 'O' Henderson was the only successful judge to correctly guess the 20-year-old singer.</span></p>

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