Richard E Grant, are you OK hun? There were gasps across the nation last night as the British actor, vibrating with excitement, told all his fellow Celebrity Traitors contestants that he had been picked as a Traitor, mere minutes after being selected by Claudia Winkleman at the top-secret roundtable. “What are you?” comedian Joe Lycett had innocently asked Grant in the bar, to which the star replied with a gleeful shrug: “A Traitor.”
Lycett spoke for all of us when he came back with a baffled “You what?!” Cue lots of perplexed laughter and mumblings about how Grant is certainly taking an “interesting” approach to the game. Grant then spent the rest of the episode manically back-pedalling and claiming he was actually a Faithful, but had said he was a Traitor as a joke. “I thought it would be like an ‘I am Spartacus!’ moment,” he insisted, with a giant, slightly crazed smile.
