Alan Carr mistakenly revealed Celebrity Traitors win just 12 hours after filming
The comedian said he felt ‘stupid’ for letting the secret slip, and tried to ‘backtrack’ on what he had said.
The Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr has said he accidentally revealed he won the hit BBC show 12 hours after filming the final episode, adding: “I felt so stupid.”
The 49-year-old comedian was dubbed a traitor on the celebrity version of the reality TV show which aired last autumn, and a nail-biting series finale saw him snatch victory from two faithfuls, historian David Olusoga and actor Nick Mohammed.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s The Scott Mills Breakfast Show, Carr admitted that after being crowned the winner of The Celebrity Traitors, the secret slipped out while filming Channel 4 gameshow Secret Genius.
He said: “I felt so stupid. When I did The Traitors, I looked at my work diary and my agent had actually put in work after the first week, and I said ‘oh no, I’m doing The Traitors’.
“He said, ‘Alan, you’ll be out first week with your motor mouth, you aren’t going to last’. Then it kept going on and on.”
He added: “I thought I would be gone on day two.”
Carr said after filming wrapped on The Celebrity Traitors, he returned to work on Secret Genius, where teasing from a crew member caused him to accidentally reveal he had won.
He said: “The cameraman goes ‘congratulations’, and I go ‘how did you know I won?’
“He said ‘I didn’t, I was just joking, just teasing’. So I told them within 12 hours that I had won The Traitors.”
The comedian told Mills he then tried to retract his comment, and said: “I went, ‘haha, got you!’ – I had to backtrack, because you can’t tell anything.
“But I did well, and I didn’t want to spoil it.”
Carr also said that since appearing on The Traitors, which became a cultural touchstone and was a ratings winner for the BBC, he has been recognised more.
The comedian spoke about his recent holiday to Mexico, and said: “I’m never spotted over there, and I was on the way to the pool and I heard this woman from the balcony, ‘I see you, traitor. Don’t you hide your face from me. Who are you going to murder today?'”
He joked the comments made him look like a real murderer, and said: “People who don’t know I was in The Traitors must think I’m a serial killer.”
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors follows a group of contestants – the majority of whom are known as faithfuls – as they try to seek out the murderous traitors among them who kill off players in the middle of the night in an attempt to win a cash prize.
Set in the Scottish Highlands, the contestants complete a number of challenges to win money for the prize pot and must try to find the traitors and banish them at a roundtable discussion each night.
The celebrity version of the show saw Carr and his fellow traitors murder a string of faithfuls, including his friend singer Paloma Faith, actress Celia Imrie, comedian Lucy Beaumont and Olympic diver Tom Daley.
However, the comedian remained largely under the radar during his time on the show, and was crowned the winner during its series finale.
The full interview with Alan Carr can be heard on Friday’s edition of The Scott Mills Breakfast Show.
