Among the group of famous faces was broadcaster Amol Rajan, who entered the game completely enamoured with the jeopardy and drama the show provides, but those very themes were what ultimately worked against him.
Unfortunately for Rajan, he was the player who knew too much...
How does it feel to be the first celebrity to leave The Celebrity Traitors season 2?
View oEmbed on the source website"And my kind of feeling now is one of like, what an amazing privilege to be part of this incredible TV programme. I had a lot of fun and, you know, I feel like I got the golden ticket to get invited onto The Traitors. It would have been nice to get the deluxe version and be an actual Traitor, but overall, I've had a wonderful time, and just getting all the messages over the weekend from people that watched it was was really nice."
Let's talk about the moment you're face-to-face [with the Traitors], did you have any idea that it could have been Richard or Maya?
"By the time we got to the chapel, it was late at night, and I was so exhausted. I didn't really think I was going to see Richard. It was very, very dark and it was a tall figure – I actually thought it was King Kenny. So there was this weird moment where I was like, 'Oh my God, it's Kenny! It's Kenny! It's Kenny!' And then it was Richard and Maya, and it was like, 'Wow.'
Getting that coffin slammed down, can you talk us through that moment? What were the emotions that go through your head?
"And almost the only thing that I wanted out of Traitors, I wanted to be myself and come across as I actually am. I wanted to make some friends, but I didn't want to be the first out. So getting into that coffin, first of all, I'm really claustrophobic. I hate coffins. Secondly, I was really exhausted. Third, it was cold, and I just really, really, really, really didn't want that coffin lid to shut. And so, when Claudia was patrolling, it doesn't necessarily always come across on TV, but she's got these very loud boots.
"When she was doing that noise and walking towards James [Acaster], I was like, 'Yes!' And then the same noise again. I was like, 'Oh God!' And then she did it twice more, and it felt like 1,500 hours. And in the end, she just came back to me and went bang! And it was like, 'Oh my God! The worst has come to pass.' So it was terrifying walking into the coffin, but the moment the lid closed it was dreadful."
View Green Video on the source website"It was very, very bad. And in fact, I've now watched it back twice. It's a weird thing [because] you've experienced it once, you've thought about it a lot. When you watch it on screen, you're obviously interested to see what the edit looks like. But watching it back, my heart was pounding. I watched it the night it went out, I watched it with a bunch of neighbours. They all came round, and you know, this was like, 'I've literally been there.' I've watched it on screen, and this is the third time I'm kind of living through it. And my heart was pounding. And I think it's just that good TV that even if you know what happens and sadly I do know what happens – it's still completely gripping, and there is this sense of jeopardy."
"I think I'd have been a little bit more alert to the fact that I was obviously going to be cast as the journalist, right? And, you know, it's easy with hindsight, which is a glorious thing. You could be like, 'Oh, I played it wrong because that meant that Richard sort of went after me.' But I did come really close to being a Traitor, and if it was a sort of 51/49, if me being a journalist – I sniff out lies for a living, I ask good questions, you want me on your side – might have actually persuaded Maya and Richard, that tactic might have worked.
You said you'd have been a good Traitor. Given the chance, what would you have brought to the turret?
"And I think my tactic would have been – you can tell I've thought about this a bit – you've been recruited as a Traitor, just carry on like you were yesterday, just carry on being like you were Faithful, because I'd inhabited that thing. So, I think that would have been quite good because I'd actually been a Faithful. But the second thing is my analysis of previous series is that you've got to do the random and unexpected things, and I think, if I may humbly say – and we'll see how this plays out on Thursday's episode – but I think that Richard and Maya did quite an obvious thing, as Hannah Fry said at the roundtable and got rid of me.
Hannah and James said you were the biggest threat to the Traitors, and that's why they got rid of you. Do you agree with that analysis from them?
"So I think I would have. I think I was a big threat. I think in general on the programme, and I'm definitely not going to give anything away here, but in general, watch out for the sneaky ones. I think sometimes the obvious people, the big dog theory, it's sometimes a bit too obvious, and I think sometimes the people that you don't suspect can often be the bigger threat, which is one of the things that makes it such great telly.
I feel like we had a big dog immediately when Julie [Hesmondhalgh] came in and everyone said she was the most trustworthy. Would you say she's a big dog Faithful?
"I think Jerry Hall has a kind of big dog energy, and I think Julie is kind of partly because that's how she's played it. I think Julie is in there more as a lovely person rather than a kind of marauding character. In a way, that was Joe Marler’s theory about Stephen Fry that he said he had that kind of big personality.
What was the atmosphere like in there? Was everyone second guessing everything because they'd watched the show before?
"The atmosphere, it's an amazing thing. One thing about this year's show, which I think is great, and again, you know, props to Studio Lambert for it, is everyone in there is really nice. Everyone. I mean, I'm sure the previous series the same, and maybe the civilian series, as they call it, the same. But like, I can say this hand on heart, everyone in there was so nice until the Traitors were picked, because then it goes from nice to nasty. Because then suddenly all these people that you've been getting to know a little bit, having a little bit of breakfast and downtime with and chatting to in the castle, suddenly you're like, 'Are you trying to kill me?'
Why do you think we all love The Traitors? What is it that we love about watching the lies and the backstabbing of it all?
"It's also just like all great television and all great formats in the end are about watching a group of people go on a really satisfying emotional journey to some fantastic conclusion. This is an incredible group of people. The emotional journey is wild. It's all over the place, and the conclusion is like, who wins? So it's got absolutely everything. There's human psychology. It puts the viewer in a position of tremendous kind of omnipotence and godlike kind of knowledge of what's going on. It's got the kind of secret ingredient of all great formats, and then there's also Claudia Winkleman in a tartan skirt. And I don't mean that in a way that sounds anything other than affectionate. She is like the greatest broadcaster in the world right now. She oozes mischief and aura, which is incredible because she's actually the nicest person in the world.
Celebrity Traitors continues on Thursday 8 October at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
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