Sir Stephen Fry exits The Celebrity Traitors
Sir Stephen Fry has become the latest contestant to leave The Celebrity Traitors.
Sir Stephen Fry has become the latest contestant to exit The Celebrity Traitors.
The 68-year-old actor has become the fifth Faithful to be banished at the Round Table - but Stephen admits that he still relished his time on the show.
He told the BBC: "It’s a word that's overused as people give them as Christmas presents, but it really was an experience. A remarkable experience. And of course, it's shaped by the rules of the game. No question, the structure of the rules of the game gives it its shape. And I was familiar with those from watching it, but it is formed more, in a way, by the nature of the group who are participating.
"That was just wonderful to get to know some extraordinary people I would probably otherwise never have met. And some people, of course, whom I knew, that made it very rich and interesting. Every day was astonishing."
Stephen relished the experience of getting to know some of his co-stars.
Asked if he had any personal highlights from the show, Stephen explained: "It’s the individual relationships really. Wonderful conversations with David Olusoga, with Clare Balding, both of whom I knew anyway, but hadn't really had any profound relationship with as it were so time in the game has given us that. Wonderful to meet people I didn't know. Joe Marler, Cat Burns, Tameka Empson – of totally different fields and worlds of things so it was lovely to get to know them.
"I suppose really, the thing is, when you're a child, from all the way from earliest childhood, you're used to being in groups. You’re in a play group before you go to a kindergarten, and at school you’re again in groups. Groups can be bad, because there's popularity, and the pecking order sometimes but humans are group animals, social animals. Then, when you're a student, you still have groups, and you go to pubs together, you go on holidays together, and you live in houses together when you first afford to live somewhere in a group. And then eventually you start - just as the super group of all time, The Beatles - you start pairing off, and the group disappears."
