pressures<\/a> of fame and his career, the former Doctor Who star told the BBC\u2019s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme he was asked to take part in the all-star version of the reality TV show, but said no.<\/p>\nWhen asked why, the 67-year-old said: \u201cBecause I think there\u2019s a level of fame that\u2026 I think it propels you into the public eye, at a level of exposure that I don\u2019t really want.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like doing, you know, it\u2019s like doing my music things \u2013 it\u2019s very difficult for people in that business to understand that you want to keep it small.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cPeople keep saying to me, why don\u2019t you do a bigger tour, or why don\u2019t you do a bigger release, or why don\u2019t you promote this more?<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I don\u2019t\u2026 I\u2019m not doing it to be famous.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his previous leading role as the Doctor, the Glasgow-born actor said he had \u201ca little regret\u201d when asked if he left the long-running BBC show too early.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s great fun being Doctor Who, but the pressure of it is quite intense.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re sort of on all the time and you don\u2019t want to disappoint anyone because even though I\u2019m not Doctor Who, if people are meeting me they\u2019d rather meet the version of me that is Doctor Who.<\/p>\n
When asked if he tried not to “let down” fans, he joked: \u201cYeah, because I\u2019m quite miserable and melancholic, really,\u201d before adding: \u201cAnd that was, that was one of the big changes in my life, I guess, which happened quite late, was I\u2019m quite miserable really, but I thought you can\u2019t be miserable if you\u2019re Doctor Who.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t because you would disappoint people so I have to become cheerful all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Capaldi played the Twelfth Doctor from 2013 to 2017.<\/p>\n
The first series of The Celebrity Traitors aired on the BBC last autumn, with its nail-biting finale hitting a peak of 15.4 million viewers, according to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n
It featured a star-studded cast including actors Celia Imrie and Nick Mohammed, singer Paloma Faith, author and actor Stephen Fry, broadcaster Jonathan Ross and comedian Alan Carr, who went on to win as a Traitor.<\/p>\n
The spin-off series, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, brought in an average audience of 14.9 million people during its run \u2013 the biggest TV audience of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I think it propels you into the public eye, at a level of exposure that I don\u2019t really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,6365,16,15],"class_list":["post-889862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-the-traitors","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116393961699523028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889862","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=889862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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