Alan Carr was crowned the winner of the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors series but he has now revealed he never thought he would make it to the final of the series with his agent saying: “With your poker face you’ll be out”
Comedian Alan Carr has revealed that his agent had so little faith in his ability to succeed on The Celebrity Traitors, they booked him for gigs two weeks into filming.
The funnyman was crowned the champion of the popular BBC spin-off series during Thursday night’s thrilling finale.
Carr was overcome with emotion after confessing to his fellow contestants, comedian Nick Mohammed and historian David Olusoga, that he was a traitor. He informed host Claudia Winkleman that the prize money, totalling £87,500, would be donated to a children’s cancer charity for neuroblastoma.
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Discussing his win on the visual podcast, Uncloaked, Carr admitted: “It still hasn’t sunk in, it’s insane.”
When asked if he anticipated making it so far in the competition, he responded: “No, no, no, no, I did not even think I would get this far. My agent had actually booked in things for the second week saying, ‘With your poker face you’ll be out’.
“I go through customs I start sweating, when I go to a newsagents and it says no shoplifting. I’ve got the worst poker face going, it’s a tug of war with my face.”
Carr also shared that his sense of humour was his “secret weapon” in the castle, often using it to “often deflect scrutiny and make a gag about something which would then throw everyone off the scent”.
“My sense of humour was probably more useful to me than a shield,” he said. Carr concluded: “So I’m really, really proud, I can be a chameleon, I can chat, I can lie when I need to. Idiots can do well.”
The comedian had been a traitor from the very start of the game alongside singer Cat Burns and presenter Jonathan Ross, who got the boot earlier in the series.
They proceeded to “murder” a string of players including singer Paloma Faith, comedian Lucy Beaumont and Olympic diver Tom Daley whilst faithfuls including actor Sir Stephen Fry, presenter Clare Balding and actor Mark Bonnar came under suspicion and were voted out by their fellow contestants.
Discussing the emotional reveal and his chosen charity, Carr said: “I think all the deceit, the lying, the murdering of Paloma (Faith) and Celia (Imrie) had all taken its toll and then I think it dawned on me that I had won such a huge amount for my charity, Neuroblastoma UK.
“The charity is so close to my heart that it all became a bit too much. Hopefully when people see how upset I was they won’t feel so bad that I killed all those national treasures.
“I told one person at the charity and they started crying, so that gives you some idea of how important this money will be to them. Neuroblastoma is such a cruel disease, and this money will literally save lives. It’s a charity and disease that no one has really heard of so with the viewing figures being what they are it’s going to be so good for the charity.”
The finale witnessed two explosive roundtables which kicked off with Burns getting banished following an alliance between former rugby player Joe Marler and Mohammed, who persuaded Olusoga to also vote for Burns. The remaining contestants were left in the dark, unaware that they had successfully ousted a traitor from their midst, relying solely on gut instinct and trust.
This marked the first celebrity series of the popular reality show in the UK, proving to be a ratings smash for the BBC, drawing in over six million viewers when it premiered on October 8.
Fans can catch The Celebrity Traitors on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Source: Mirror
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