{"id":776353,"date":"2026-02-20T04:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/776353\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:33:19","slug":"danny-dyer-responds-to-celebrity-traitors-rumour-and-his-answer-might-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/776353\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Dyer responds to Celebrity Traitors rumour \u2013 and his answer might surprise you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Though the second season of The Celebrity Traitors may not air until later in the year, it doesn&#8217;t mean we can&#8217;t speculate as to who will be part of the cast. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a69272283\/celebrity-traitors-cast-rumours-season-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a69272283\/celebrity-traitors-cast-rumours-season-2\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"With rumoured stars including Ruth Jones and Bob Mortimer\" data-node-id=\"3.3\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">With rumoured stars including Ruth Jones and Bob Mortimer<\/a>, it could be a fun time!<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">One of the other names linked to the hit spin-off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/the-traitors\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/the-traitors\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"the BBC reality series\" data-node-id=\"9.1\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the BBC reality series<\/a> is Danny Dyer, but the Rivals and former EastEnders star has \u2013 rather emphatically \u2013 denied that he has been offered a trip to the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">In an upcoming episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, which airs on Saturday on ITV1, the actor joined his daughter Dani, and was quizzed about his potential involvement in the series by Ross, a former Traitor himself.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"18\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">&#8220;That\u2019s absolute bollocks,&#8221; said Dyer. &#8220;I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re saying it. If they ask me I\u2019ll do it, but no one\u2019s asked me. I would f**king declare it. I\u2019m not on it, you\u2019ll see when it comes on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"22\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">Dyer isn&#8217;t the only famous face to comment on a potential appearance in the series, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a70291981\/oasis-liam-gallagher-celebrity-traitors\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a70291981\/oasis-liam-gallagher-celebrity-traitors\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher recently claiming\" data-node-id=\"22.1\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher recently claiming<\/a> that he had been &#8220;asked&#8221; to take part in TV&#8217;s most treacherous and deceitful game.<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"danny dyer, one last deal\" title=\"Danny Dyer, One Last Deal\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/danny-dyer-one-last-deal-69721a241e8f0.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vertigo Releasing<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"27\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"27.0\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/g69945147\/traitors-gift-ideas-merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/g69945147\/traitors-gift-ideas-merchandise\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Traitors gift ideas and merch to buy now, from official cloak to the board game\" data-node-id=\"27.0.1\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Traitors gift ideas and merch to buy now, from official cloak to the board game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"31\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">While we&#8217;ll have to wait to see who is part of the line-up for the upcoming season of the spin-off, comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a70377638\/alan-carr-celebrity-traitors-special-purchase\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a70377638\/alan-carr-celebrity-traitors-special-purchase\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Alan Carr recently shared that he wanted to make a special Traitors-themed purchase\" data-node-id=\"31.1\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alan Carr recently shared that he wanted to make a special Traitors-themed purchase<\/a> following his triumph in the first season. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"35\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">&#8220;I&#8217;m buying a castle,&#8221; he said during last week&#8217;s episode of The Jonathan Ross Show. &#8220;I\u2019m having a midlife crisis. I want a turret to call my own. I\u2019m in my turret era. I fancy a move and I loved being in The Traitors castle, so I thought, &#8216;I\u2019m going to get myself one.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"alan carr, the celebrity traitors\" title=\"Alan Carr, The Celebrity Traitors\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4748\" height=\"3159\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alan-carr-the-celebrity-traitors-690c50aab2839.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"40\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"40.0\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a70387923\/the-traitors-winners-prize-money-stephen-rachel\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/reality-tv\/a70387923\/the-traitors-winners-prize-money-stephen-rachel\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Traitors winners finally receive their prize money - here&#039;s what they are doing with it\" data-node-id=\"40.0.1\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Traitors winners finally receive their prize money &#8211; here&#8217;s what they are doing with it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"44\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">&#8220;You know when people have a midlife crisis that they get a ponytail or a Lamborghini\u2026 I want a castle. You know when you fancy something? I\u2019m 50 this year \u2013 I know I don\u2019t look it \u2013 and I just want one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"48\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\">&#8220;I know it sounds very grand. I\u2019m moving from where I am at the minute, I want animals there and a community thing. I\u2019m lonely where I am. It\u2019ll be nice, having people come there and having cream tea,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"52\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"52.0\">The Traitors<\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"52.1\"> seasons 1-4 and The Celebrity Traitors are streaming on BBC iPlayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"56\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dstraitorsforum\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dstraitorsforum\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Interested in talking about The Traitors? Visit our dedicated sub-forum\" data-node-id=\"56.0\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong data-node-id=\"56.0.0\">Interested in talking about <\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"56.0.1\">The Traitors<\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"56.0.2\">? Visit our dedicated sub-forum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"60\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/the-traitors\/\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/the-traitors\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Read more The Traitors news on our dedicated homepage\" data-node-id=\"60.0\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong data-node-id=\"60.0.0\">Read more <\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"60.0.1\">The Traitors<\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"60.0.2\"> news on our dedicated homepage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"65\" class=\"css-18ljdn6 emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"65.0\">The new edition of <\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"65.1\">Living Legends<\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"65.2\">, a 100-page all-colour celebration of Taylor Swift, is here! <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearstmagazines.co.uk\/livilgtaylorswift\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.hearstmagazines.co.uk\/livilgtaylorswift\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Buy Taylor in newsagents or online\" data-node-id=\"65.3\" class=\"body-link css-1gyyefe emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong data-node-id=\"65.3.0\">Buy <\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"65.3.1\">Taylor<\/strong><strong data-node-id=\"65.3.2\"> in newsagents or online<\/strong><\/a><strong data-node-id=\"65.4\">, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-dynamic-svg=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/images\/logos\/lettermark.05d81be.svg?primary=%2523000\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"dynamic-svg-base\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Lettermark\" class=\"css-7mevzh ev8dhu50\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporter, Digital Spy<\/strong> George is a freelance writer who specialises in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Movies<\/a> and TV. After graduating with a degree in Film Studies and Journalism from De Montfort University, in which he analysed the early works of Richard Linklater for his dissertation, he wrote for several websites for GRV Media. \u00a0His film tastes vary from blockbusters like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/mission-impossible\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mission: Impossible<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/john-wick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Wick<\/a> to international directors such as Paolo Sorrentino and Hirokazu Kore-eda, and has attended both the London and Berlin film festivals.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though the second season of The Celebrity Traitors may not air until later in the year, it doesn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,215877,226655,1380,226654,1331,77,1330,226653,216560,16,15],"class_list":["post-776353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-the-traitors","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-18b5a042-58de-45f6-95f2-e11004965f4f","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-danny-dyer-responds-to-celebrity-traitors-rumour","tag-subsection-reality-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116101094333823417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}