Celeb Traitors #7: Alan’s End Game.

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Keep on chatting here.

David is a Professor of Public engagement, he doesn't have a PhD. His chosen career path was journalism and work on historical programmes with people like Mary Beard.

I haven’t quite RTFT (supposed to be starting lunch!), but someone very much in the know told me that Nick donated his fee to his charity. He genuinely seems to be a lovely guy.

I read an article which suggested Gemma Collins 🙄

How lovely.

And that would be the death of the franchise. Literally.

Next year, I would like some really impressive 50-something women. They have not been well represented the last couple of years. Someone like Amanda of S 1.

Here are my suggestions

Bob Mortimer
Miranda Hart
Sue Barker
Steve Redgrave/Matthew Pinsent (either would do)
Tom Allen
Jill Scott
Daley Thompson
Alex Brooker
Jennifer Saunders
Dan Snow
Mary Beard
Sara Cox
Ruth Jones
Mo Farah
Alison Steadman
Meera Syall
And just to keep it realistic...Sir Tom Jones 😁

Derren Brown
Victoria Coren-Mitchell

Derren Brown is a brilliant idea, except he'd have to be a Faithful so we can test his mentalism skills, and he wouldn't last two episodes before being banished or murdered because literally everyone would see him as a threat.

Floella Benjamin
Meera Syal

Victoria Coren Mitchell would be interesting because she is a very successful poker player so should be able to maintain face and watch for "tells" from others. She would resolutely refuse to do any of the tasks though I think!

Alex Horne - for the chaos factor!

Piers Morgan 🤣

She did do taskmaster though, so up for giving things a go.

Agree about being a champion poker player, but that’s one of the things where people will know it and therefore will probably vote her out because they suspect her or murder her because she’s a threat.

Piers Morgan is on my absolutely not list! I don’t want anyone “divisive” or put in there to “stir things up”. I want them all pleasantly friendly!

I would love to see him pulled down a peg or 2 when he got it all wrong!

I liked Fry more than usual in this, and it might be because he didn't have the upper hand so he wasn't as smug and smarmy as usual.

Although I also didn't dislike Jonathan Ross as much as usual either for some reason.

I actually warmed to Jonathan Ross a lot more than I expected, as I haven't ever been a fan. He surprised me on Uncloaked by being quite likeable!

I have very mixed feelings about Stephen Fry.

Yes and the opposite is also true. Few of this year’s celebs could imagine Alan being a traitor as his character and demeanour was so bumbling and jokey. He explained everything away with ‘oh I just get nervous’.

Perhaps in a second celeb series there would be so much focus on those who don’t have personalities and traits befitting of a traitor that the smarter people who play strategically and quietly form alliances will get a long way.

I can definitely see them asking VCM to be involved. Probably top of their list.

Not his biggest fan, but Stephen Fry's come in for a lot of unnecessary criticism for being useless at the game. He was spot on with Cat from his tired traitors theory, and came up with a great strategy to go straight to voting at the round table instead of getting sidetracked during discussions. Unfortunately no one listened to him!

I only knew Nick from Taskmaster (where he was great). I didn’t know until traitors that he was an actor, actually! Obv I’ve heard of Ted Lasso but we have Netflix, Sky, Disney and prime but not Apple TV, so have never seen it. Same with Slow Horses. I just assumed he was a comedian type I’d not come across before. I think this has made him much more of a household name than before - nobody is going to break out completely on celebrity traitors because they’re all well known in at least some areas.

At the beginning I seem to remember him and luke when it was the wheel task deciding that they would deliberately get questions wrong so the ones on the wheel got wet..this is typical luke behaviour and it was fun,no malice.
But the sheriff was horrible..there was another task when he again deliberately lost or took money for himself.
I really felt for the other traitor with him.
He did try to make a stand a few times.

He is very good in Ted Lasso (with an incredible character arc) if you ever get a chance to see it.

Second celebrity season confirmed for next year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/the-celebrity-traitors-2-plus-impact-report

Although it would have been more surprising at this point if it had NOT been confirmed. Let's hope they can keep up the quality of celebrities.

Yeah, might do a few months of Apple TV at some point and watch all the things!