Clare Balding reckons she has given bosses at The Traitors new way of picking next set of celebrity villains
While opening up about her time on the hit show, Clare Balding said she reckons she has given bosses at The Traitors a new way of choosing its next set of celebrity villains.
Clare Balding reckons she has given bosses at The Traitors a new way of choosing its next set of celebrity villains.
The sports commentator, 54, who was banished in episode four of this year’s Celebrity Traitors show despite being a ‘faithful’ says producers should run a lottery-style arrangement to choose who is going to a be a traitor instead of spending hours thinking how they would play the game.
Clare told the Weekend Edition: Celebrity Traitors Special podcast: “I did say this to the producers there – if it had been genuine randomness picking the Traitors, we were numbers put in a bag and the balls had been picked out and numbers seven, ten and 19 were to be Traitors... I think that would be even more interesting.”
Asked if she thought producers would picking her idea, Clare added: “Funnily enough, they did say, ‘That’s a thought, that’s a good idea’.”
Clare previously admitted she was “cross” after learning who the Celebrity Traitors were following her elimination from the BBC show.
She became the third “faithful” to be eliminated from the series, while the trio of ‘traitors’ – Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Cat Burns – dodged detection.
Clare was hit by seven votes from her fellow contestants during the gameshow before she admitted she was a faithful.
Leaving the series, Clare said: “I came in with anyone’s strategy, which
was to be nice to absolutely everyone, and I have had the best time, and I love all of you. I am, and I have been, from the start, faithful.”
Appearing on its aftershow, Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked, Clare said she wished she had stuck to her instincts about Jonathan and Alan – who won the show – being traitors.
She added: “Honestly, that makes me cross because I so nearly last night went on a big one on Jonathan… I’m most annoyed about Jonathan because I think if me and Charlotte (Church) would had trusted each other, then we would have got him.”
When she discovered Alan was a traitor she said: “Dammit. I was right and nobody listened.”
The aftershow’s host Ed Gamble praised Clare for not being “far off the mark” with her traitor suspicions.
