Summer Warne surprised Australia when she was unmasked during the September 25 episode of The Masked Singer Australia 2023.
During the episode, the 20-year-old dedicated her performance of Coldplay’s Yellow to her late father, Shane Warne, leaving not a dry eye in households around the country.
Now, speaking to Chattr after her elimination, Summer has opened up about what qualities she has inherited from Australia’s most famous spin bowler.
“I think his thoughtfulness, his caringness [sic] and his honesty,” she said. “I’ll always be honest. I’ll never pretend to be someone that I’m not.”
She continued: “I will treat everyone the same. He always said, “No matter where you come from, no matter what status, how much money you have, who you are, where you went to school, everyone’s equal at the end of the day, and you treat everyone with the same respect and how you would want to be treated. It costs nothing to be kind.”
Summer also went on to say that she hoped her performance would give others hope that “anything is possible”.
“If I can go in a giant avocado on stage, you can do anything. You can go to that job interview, or you can ask that boy or girl out on a date. Just simple things like that. Just live your life the way you want and don’t let anyone tell you how to live it.”
How Summer Warne is coping following her father’s death
When asked how she is doing following Shane’s shock death on March 4, 2022, Summer admitted that “every day brings a new challenge”.
“Every day, there’s something new that I wish I could tell him and sometimes a daughter just needs her dad’s advice, and they need that dad to lean on. But every day, I just think he would just want me to live my life and want me to be happy and live the life that he couldn’t. And so I’m just trying to make little special moments like this might just make just kind of make the most of it.
“If there’s a time that I’m struggling, that I really need him, I go back to watch videos and interviews and podcasts that he’s done,” she said. “And I just always remember the things he taught me and who to be.”
As for her own next steps?
“There are videos of me in ballet classes and dancing, acting, and singing classes,” she said. “Videos of me literally just trying and being the best person I could be. So, if anyone needs an extra or an actor or a little tomato or beetroot…I’m just so excited to kind of see where this takes me and the new experiences that will come up.”
The Masked Singer Australia continues Monday at 7.30 pm on 10 And 10Play.
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