From this article first published in November 2024, Harry Clark, one of the winners of The Traitors UK Series 2 in 2024, recounts his experience of moving back in with his parents after his time on the popular BBC show.
Back in March 2024, I was on the red carpet at the Brits and saw Dua Lipa. And then I got a taxi home to the council house in Slough, where I grew up with my parents and five siblings. In May I went to a Make-A-Wish Ball at the Savoy – I got driven there in a car which had a TV screen in the back. And then I came home and slept in my bunk bed.
You might think it sounds odd that aged 23 I’m glad I’ve moved back in with my parents this year. But the way I see it, it’s a nice contrast with the decadent experiences I often get since winning the second series of The Traitors.
In GCSE English, we studied Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – and that sense of two different sides to someone and having two different lifestyles appealed to me. I get to have my private life at home, with the people who’ve always loved me unconditionally – it’s too often been breached over the past year by fans doing weird things like following my mum on Instagram. I haven’t lived at home since I was 16, when I joined the Army and eventually became an mechanical engineer based in Wiltshire.
I meet lots of people who think I must be mega-rich. I’m not complaining – I won £95,000 on The Traitors, I’ve had cool sponsorship deals since, and a great job now. But I’m not a multi-millionaire splashing out on a Porsche – I still drive the Corsa I’ve had for six years.
My parents live in the sort of little council house that’s typical in Slough – there’s a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms. And there’s a long garden with a broken trampoline and some dusty plastic chairs. Me and my brothers used to share a bedroom, and then my three sisters shared another.
That’s not to say nothing’s changed with my set-up over the past year. My elder brother moved out with his girlfriend, who he now has a baby with. And thanks to the women in my life, my bedroom got a revamp.
I gave full range to my mum, my sisters, and the missus to do it up with the money I gave them. They swapped out the bunk bed for a big comfy double bed – beige, in line with the sort of minimalist aesthetic I like. It wasn’t just women-led decisions, though – my brother did choose my remote-controlled curtain. All I cared about was having a desk for my PlayStation 5. That said, if it was up to me I’d have jellyfish and one of those plasma ball lamps.
From the time I wake up I keep my room really clean – Army habits die hard. Which is lucky because when I’m away, my little brother might come sleep in the room if he’s staying for the weekend – or my poor mum (my dad snores).
My dad was over the moon when I moved back in. Since my older brother moved out, it was just him, mum and my three sisters. He finally had someone to talk and watch football with. But now, thanks to my sister I’m watching TOWIE and reality TV.
The rule in our house is that whoever gets to the TV first watches what they want – I used to have to wait for her to finish watching her episode before I would go downstairs. But after plonking myself on the sofa and watching a couple of episodes of Married at First Sight, I’m hooked and asking myself, “did that really just happen?”.
It’s not all rainbows – sometimes my little sister will storm in at 11pm and start drying her hair, or not come into my room without knocking. We call our home the madhouse.
And I get that people don’t usually think of it as the dream to live with your parents at this age. Maybe in an ideal world I’d love to have my own place and invite all my mates over. I’d like to be a man providing a house for my family; if this was the 50s I’d have bought three houses by now.
But the fact is, mortgages are just so expensive (and it’s not like I don’t pay rent to my mum and dad). When I think about it, I have a pretty sweet deal – my dad cooks three meals a day and my mum irons my clothes. My older brother always reminds me to lap it up while I can.
And honestly, I just don’t care what anyone else thinks. My mum and dad have lived in the house for 20-odd years, and I’m hoping one day I’ll be able to buy it for them – I’d get £100,000 off the price because of Right to Buy.
And by saving up, I hope it won’t be too long until I have a place of my own. I know it might sound unusual to love living at home. But from the time I joined the Army at 16, I moved away from them Monday to Friday. I’m so conscious my parents won’t always be around – why rush to get away from them?
The Celebrity Traitors continues on Thursday at 8pm on BBC One
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