By all accounts, Denise Hailes knows how to keep a secret. The costume designer is one of the few people in Aotearoa who knew the identity of the 12 secret celebrities on local TV show The Masked Singer NZ.
In late 2020, when Warner Brothers approached her to create the costumes for the first season of the show, Denise says they didn’t tell her for a long time who the contestants were.
“They gave me measurements and pictures of the people without their head. I only met the contestants and did fittings with them three days before we filmed,” recalls the bubbly 52-year-old from
