Now he\u2019s the ultimate wicked pantomime fairy. We thought he was a backstabber when he condemned his erstwhile pal Paloma Faith to become the first player evicted from the game \u2013 pretending to brush a hair off her face when in fact he was \u2018murdering\u2019 her with invisible poison.<\/p>\n
But the heights of betrayal he has scaled since then have revealed a ruthlessness that even he probably didn\u2019t imagine.<\/p>\n
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Never has the public taken a two-faced twister to their hearts, the way we have adopted Alan Carr as our favourite reprobate (pictured third left)<\/p>\n
Celia Imrie, killed with a Shakespearean quote. Jonathan Ross, his fellow Traitor, jettisoned to save his own skin.<\/p>\n
Over four seasons, including this Celebrity version, The Traitors has proved itself the most addictive format on television. And Alan (like ex-soldier Harry Clark in series two) embodies the reason why. The show is fuelled by malice, in an essentially harmless form, and we discover it in the most unlikely people.<\/p>\n
If Alan Carr can be such an effective liar, will we ever be able to trust anyone again?<\/p>\n
As the finale opened, it seemed certain that the Faithful were going to root out the snakes among them. For those tuning in for the first time \u2013 and the show has been steadily acquiring fans throughout its run \u2013 the format is deceptively simple: presenter Claudia Winkleman, in a variety of absurdly Gothic outfits, welcomes 19 players to her castle. Three are secretly assigned the role of Traitors. Their job has been to eliminate fellow players, night by night. The others, the Faithfuls, have to guess who the quislings are in their midst, and evict them. As Claudia says, it\u2019s the ultimate murder-mystery.<\/p>\n
The Faithfuls have had to dissemble as well \u2013 which fills viewers with the double anxiety that our nicest friends are faking affection too.<\/p>\n
Actor Nick Mohammed had no sooner told the camera that he was convinced singer Cat Burns was a Traitor (which indeed she was) than he was greeting her with a fulsome smile over breakfast, as though he couldn\u2019t be happier to see her.<\/p>\n
The show has also made an unlikely star of former England rugby player Joe Marler. \u2018My gut feeling is that Cat and Alan are Traitors. I\u2019m coming for ya,\u2019 he declared at the start of the finale. Best of all, Alan was convinced Joe had no suspicions.<\/p>\n
This was the best episode yet. Even the team challenge, which earlier in the series could feel like a cheesy out-take from It\u2019s A Knockout, took on an added urgency \u2013 not just because they were playing to win up to \u00a320,000 for their chosen charities, but because all of them were constantly scrutinising each other for hints of duplicity.<\/p>\n
They fought their way along a speeding train, solving morbid puzzles that even saw them unchaining coffins on an open flatbed carriage. And as they leapt off and sprinted away, the train exploded \u2013 a genuinely spectacular moment. Historian David Olusoga, intensely intelligent and analytical, argued himself into yet another wrong choice. He was so persuasive in his arguments that Joe was a Traitor that it seemed true \u2013 even though we all knew it wasn\u2019t. Right till the end, he couldn\u2019t credit Alan with such villainy.<\/p>\n
(Wouldn\u2019t it be a fantastic twist on the format to conceal the identity of the Traitors from the viewers, too? Thirteen million viewers would go out of their minds.)<\/p>\n
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Over four seasons, including this Celebrity version, The Traitors has proved itself the most addictive format on televisio<\/p>\n
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Over four seasons, including this Celebrity version, The Traitors has proved itself the most addictive format on television<\/p>\n
Cat, at 25, is young enough never to have seen a steam engine before. When she was banished by a vote of three to two, she looked about to cry.<\/p>\n
In a new tweak to the rules, she did not reveal as she left that she was a Traitor.<\/p>\n
What sank Joe was his English politeness. \u2018I\u2019m sorry,\u2019 he said to Cat as he cast the vote that dumped her out of the game. And that made Nick suspect he\u2019d just seen one Traitor cut the other\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n
Joe\u2019s shock when David voted for him was nothing compared to his sheer disbelief when his \u2018100 per cent \u201cHundy\u201d Faithful\u2019 friend Nick joined the others in voting him out. \u2018It hurts to be stabbed in the back at the last minute like that,\u2019 he wailed. In a candlelit room, gathered around a miniature firepit on the table (usually the game ends around a fire outside, but perhaps it was raining), they stood, with their hands clasped, as though this was a dark magic ritual, with Claudia as Count Dracula.<\/p>\n
Alan did look tortured as he realised he was finally going to have to own up. \u2018I\u2019m so sorry. It\u2019s been tearing me apart,’ he said, collapsing in sobs as the other two hugged him and reassured him, \u2018It\u2019s just a game!\u2019<\/p>\n
But he did win \u00a387,500 for his charity, supporting children with neuroblastoma cancer. \u2018All that lying, all that treachery, it was worth it,\u2019 he gulped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors Rating: Such treachery! The sheer, shameless weaselling of it \u2013 blushing and giggling his way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[65767,434,65765,14172,118,95961,18,117,19,17,65764,438],"class_list":{"0":"post-167281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alan-carr","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-traitors","11":"tag-celia-imrie","12":"tag-dailymail","13":"tag-david-olusoga","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-paloma-faith","19":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115506528306850456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167281","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=167281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}