The Traitors winner Harry Clark supports National Service return
The Traitors winner Harry Clark was a British Army engineer before he appeared on the BBC game show in 2024.
The Traitors winner Harry Clark supports the return of National Service for young adults.
The TV star was a British Army engineer before he found fame on the BBC game show in 2024.
And Harry thinks the mandatory or voluntary government scheme for 18-26-year-olds, in which they undergo basic training and serve their country for a period of time in the armed forces or civic organisations, would set them up for life.
During Wednesday's (24.06.26's) episode of Channel 5's Storm + Alexis show, he said: "I was in the military for six years, I don’t see any negative with bringing back the National Service.
"I think it’s a great idea. Firstly, just because there’s a massive misconception with the army, the army doesn’t mean we’re going to take our kids, send them away to war, and they’re going to shoot guns and be shot at and maybe die, that’s not the case at all.
"The army teaches you so many things. You could be a driver, a chef. I was an aeronautical engineer on helicopters. I can’t even spell the word aeronautical, so it’s a trade I get for my life forever.
"I think what we have today, especially in London, is young teenagers getting into crime because they feel like they have no purpose, and the military can give them that purpose."
Harry added: "On the wider aspects of things, National Service can be so much broader. It doesn’t mean just going to the military; it could be community service, because what you’re doing is installing discipline into these young kids, and they can take that on for their life forever.
"When I was in the military, the main thing I realised was that people were lost, or they had no one else outside the military.
"The military then became their family, and I can promise you, if these kids go to the military and just spend a year there, and they learn how to make their bed, firstly, they’re going to be better off as young adults when they’re coming out."
He noted that National Service - which came into force in the UK in 1949 for men aged between 17 and 21, and ended in December 1960 - may make people interested in military life.
Harry said: "But secondly, I can promise you, probably 50 to 60 per cent of them will want to stay on in the military and learn more, because you can get multiple trades, you can travel the world."
