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Last night in probably the most predictable final of all time, we unmasked Gorgi Coughlan, Rob Mills and Cody Simpson onThe Masked Singer Australia.

But the fourth reveal of the night was anything but predictable.

Osher Günsberg had just orchestrated the unmasking of Monster and Wolf and was backstage in the ad break having a wee, when he decided to have a quick peek at his phone.

Here’s the reveal of the winner Robot. Post continues after video.

His wife Audrey had flicked him a text – she had gone into labour.

Ever the professional Osher walked back onstage, unmasked the winner of the show Robot (aka, Simpson) and then in his words “drove VERY safely home and to the hospital”.

Osher revealed the behind-the-scenes tid-bit on Twitter last night while watching the final, no doubt with his beautiful son Wolfgang or “Wolfie” who is now eight weeks old in his arms.

FYI when we shot this, in this ad break I snuck backstage for a wee, checked my phone and saw a message from my wife that she’d gone into labour. I went back inside and shouted take it off for Robot, then drove VERY safely home and to the hospital… #MaskedSingerAU

— Osher Günsberg (@oshergunsberg) October 21, 2019

Wolfie was born on Friday, August 23 and Osher introduced his son to the world with a post about the strength of his wife, Audrey Griffen.

“I am in complete awe of my wife,” he wrote on Instagram at the time. “What I witnessed her do, the power I saw her summon from within her to bring this boy into the world was utterly astonishing.”

“⁠As he came closer and closer, her body began to unleash an incredible energy that was absolutely not going to be held back. ⁠Yet Audrey was able to harness it, guide it, and use it to transcend the extraordinary pain she was feeling and channel it all towards an energy that brought this boy alive and well into the world,” he wrote.

“I can’t think of any single thing a man does in his life that physically equates to what I saw Audrey do,” he added.

When Wolfie was 12 days old, Osher and Audrey sat down to record an episode of Better Than Yesterday where the couple, who met in 2014 on the set ofThe Bachelorand married in 2017, talked about the birth of their second child.

They also share Georgia, who is Audrey’s daughter from another relationship.

“Foolishly I don’t know how it happened, but I ended up having two TV shows I was working on at the same time both coming to an incredibly tense production period around their climax at the same time as baby was in his last three weeks of gestation,” Osher said on the podcast.

“Yeah talk about living on the edge,” replied Audrey.

“I had 21 days of booked work,” Osher added. “And these are like 14 hour long days, there was no way to get out of it.”

Luckily, his wife saw the comedy in not having her husband around to help her in the final stages of pregnancy.

“We have the most hilarious life. Of course I can’t do any lifting, groceries, getting around, picking up last bits and pieces before baby comes… I can’t ask Osher – he’s at work. It was interesting,” said Audrey.

Osher is confident his son can read a call-sheet – why else would he have decided to come knocking on the final day of filming?

“Shooting the grand final of Masked Singer we took a break in the middle of it, and you’d come along to see… I was so stoked you were there. You, your mum and G went home (in the shooting break) and we had a few more hours to go.

“In a break between the the second to last segment – like we’re about to series wrap – I go to my dressing room because we had a 15 minute break.

“I go to have a wee and I grab my phone and there’s a text from you. ‘Is your baby bag packed?’ ‘Yeah it’s in the back of the car,’ I replied. ‘Does it need more clothes in it?’ you asked. ‘Nah, there’s enough for four days,’ I said.”

At that point Osher called her and asked, “Are you having contractions??”

They were seven minutes apart.

“I went back in and shot another hour of television,” laughed Osher. “I finished work, and everyone is cracking champagne and high fiving and I’m smoke – I’m gone.”

“I felt terrible, I told you to hang out… we had time,” Audrey told him.

“F*** that,” replied Osher. “They all understood. I just vanished.”

But it wasn’t all smooth sailing from there, in fact Audrey found herself incensed in the hospital. She was all hooked up and having her contractions monitored when the midwife turned to Osher and asked, “So who wins the Bachelor? It must be fun shooting it?

“I saw your face change,” Osher said during the podcast episode. “I was pretty annoyed… you were too,” said Audrey. “I was pissed off.”

After that, Audrey didn’t have a contraction for 20 minutes. She

Gemma Bath

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