Perhaps unsurprisingly, Richard E Grant has admitted that there are things he’d do differently if he were given his time in the Celebrity Traitors castle again.
Earlier this month, the Oscar nominee made Traitors history when he found himself at the centre of suspicion mere moments after being chosen as a Traitor when he outed himself to other members of the group in a botched double bluff.
The following day, they near-unanimously sent him packing in the only time on the UK show that the Faithfuls have ever been able to foil a Traitor at their first Round Table.
Richard E Grant pictured during his brief stint on The Celebrity TraitorsSpeaking to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire in an interview that aired on Sunday, the Withnail & I actor claimed he never expected to be taken “seriously” when he told his fellow contestants he was a Traitor.
“It was a completely catastrophically idiotic thing to do,” he conceded. “I can only imagine the faces of the producers looking at each other and mouthing ‘he said what?!’.”
He also claimed that his daughter warned him to be careful as he is so “incapable of hiding what you feel about people”.
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“What I should have done in retrospect is go round everybody and say ‘are you a Traitor?’ ‘Yeah. I am a traitor’… ‘I am Spartacus. I am a traitor’ to try and make light of it,” Richard added, before pondering: “But that may have dug my grave even deeper.”
As Richard correctly predicted, executive producer Sarah Fay recently opened up about the team’s reaction to the British star’s blunder behind the scenes – admitting: “Never in our wildest dreams did we think that we’d have a Traitor admit they were a Traitor five minutes after the Round Table!”
Friday’s edition of The Celebrity Traitors ended on a cliffhanger, with Faithful cast members Ross Kemp, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan all gearing up for a potentially deadly game of hide and seek – as selected by remaining Traitors Maya Jama, James Acaster and Professor Hannah Fry.
Which members of The Celebrity Traitors 2026 cast are left in the game?
At the time of writing, there are 16 celebrities left in the game. They are:
- Professor Hannah Fry
- James Acaster
- James Blunt
- Jerry Hall
- Joanne McNally
- Joe Lycett
- Kenny Oghenovo “King Kenny” Ojuederie
- Leigh-Anne Pinnock
- Maya Jama
- Michael Sheen
- Miranda Hart
- Rob Beckett
- Romesh Ranganathan
- Ross Kemp
- Sebastian Croft
- Sharon Rooney
Which members of The Celebrity Traitors 2026 cast have been banished and murdered?
There have so far been three banishments: Richard E Grant, Myha’la and Julie Hesmondhalgh.
An additional two stars – Amol Rajan and Bella Ramsey – have been murdered by the Traitors.
The Celebrity Traitors continues on Thursday night at 8pm on BBC One.
