{"id":166973,"date":"2025-11-07T00:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166973\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:35:10","slug":"winner-of-the-celebrity-traitors-revealed-after-dramatic-finale-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166973\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of The Celebrity Traitors revealed after dramatic finale \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TV presenter and comedian Alan Carr has won the BBC show The Celebrity Traitors, the most-watched TV programme of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Viewers were eagerly anticipating whether \u201ctraitors\u201d Cat Burns and Alan Carr or faithfuls Joe Marler, Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga would win the \u00a387,500 (\u20ac99,500) prize for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Carr\u2019s victory concluded the first celebrity version of the BBC reality gameshow. Only one of the three non-celebrity UK series was won by a traitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The series was notable for the ineptitude of \u201cthe faithful\u201d. Only two traitors were banished; in  each of the three non-celebrity series there were five traitors banished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> Earlier on Thursday, the finale had been released online more than 24 hours before its UK broadcast slot. Viewers in Canada reported being able to view the episode in its entirety before it was pulled by the television network Crave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2025\/11\/06\/that-was-better-than-my-wedding-day-the-20-greatest-moments-from-the-celebrity-traitors\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Celebrity Traitors top 20 moments: \u2018I\u2019ve a sweating problem and can\u2019t keep a secret\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Before the final, Burns said she did not believe she was a good liar, despite having avoided suspicion until the end of the series. The singer-songwriter was chosen to be a traitor alongside Carr and Jonathan Ross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Appearing on BBC Radio 2\u2019s Breakfast Show, Scott Mills asked her whether the show had made her realise she was an excellent liar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Burns replied: \u201cI don\u2019t think I am though. I don\u2019t think I am that great of a liar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cMy mum watches me and she is like: \u2018I can just tell that you are lying.\u2019 But that\u2019s the fun of the game isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The programme had an average of 12.6 million viewers across the first four episodes. &#8211; Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter and comedian Alan Carr has won the BBC show The Celebrity Traitors, the most-watched TV programme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[65765,18,117,19,17,27515],"class_list":{"0":"post-166973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-celebrity-traitors","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-pa2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115505615588573504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}