Kelly Brook used I'm A Celebrity... appearance as unofficial 'audition' for The Celebrity Traitors
Kelly Brook says she treated her infamous "milkgate" deception on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! as an audition for The Celebrity Traitors.
Kelly Brook used her appearance on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! as an unofficial "audition" for The Celebrity Traitors.
The model thinks she would be a good player on the second star-studded series of the BBC's ultimate game show of backstabbing and betrayal because she deceived her campmates after eating more milkbottle sweets than she should have on the ITV jungle survival show in December.
Dubbed 'milkgate', it saw Kelly, 46, Twitch streamer Angry Ginge, 24, and rapper Aitch, 26, eat more of the treats - which were won in a challenge - than they should have, and the trio did not tell their co-stars about it until Kelly dropped the bombshell when she exited the jungle.
In a recent appearance on The Celebrity Traitors series one winner Alan Carr's Life’s A Beach podcast, Kelly said: "I think the great thing with I’m A Celebrity, you know that every day there is a small window where it is live, and you can pretty much say whatever you want.
"So there was that moment where the boys and I had eaten more milk bottles than we’d let on to, and I thought that was my audition for the next series of Traitors.
"I thought, I’ll just drop that little grenade, let them know that there was more than we let on and let the boys deal with that on my way out.
"But I think a lot of people thought I’d shown my true colours, but it’s TV, and I thought throw the cat amongst the pigeons. It’s a bit of a laugh!”
Laughing, Kelly added: "Everyone got on too well. It was so harmonious. I think for reality TV, I think Ant and Dec were getting a bit frustrated that there weren’t a few more rows."
Kelly already has a surprise connecting with the 53-year-old host of The Celebrity Traitors, Claudia Winkleman.
After comedian Alan, 49, asked Kelly if she had been on holiday with a celebrity, the star revealed she once caught a flight with Claudia.
Kelly said: "This is the weirdest thing, and it always reminds me when I watch The Traitors: Claudia and I both attended Madonna’s wedding at Skibo Castle in Scotland. I remember seeing her at the airport on the way up to Scotland.
"I was like, ‘Are you going to the wedding as well?’ And she was because I think her husband’s friends with them.
"So I feel like I’ve had a bit of a Scottish rendezvous with Claudia."
The BBC has confirmed a second series of The Celebrity Traitors - which sees Faithfuls identify and banish the Traitors through voting, while the Traitors try to stay undetected and 'murder' the Faithfuls each night so they steal the prize pot from the goodies in the final. - will air in 2026.
It comes as the programme smashed viewing records - an average of 11.1 million with a peak of 12 million tuned into the final on November 6, and 14.8 million views (28 days) for episode one.
Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC, said: "Studio Lambert have done an outstanding job as The Celebrity Traitors has well and truly captivated the nation, becoming a bona fide highlight of the year, bringing record numbers of people together to enjoy every twist and turn.
"In 2026, the doors of the castle will be opened again to welcome celebrity players to the game to see who can charm, who can scheme and ultimately who can survive in series two, which promises to be just as unmissable as the first."
Kalpna also confirmed that podcast The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked - in which 39-year-old comedian Ed Gamble speaks to each of the stars for their first interview since leaving the castle - is returning, airing on BBC Sounds, BBC Two and iPlayer.
