TV presenter and comedian Alan Carr has won the BBC show The Celebrity Traitors, the most-watched TV programme of the year so far.
Viewers were eagerly anticipating whether “traitors” Cat Burns and Alan Carr or faithfuls Joe Marler, Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga would win the £87,500 (€99,500) prize for charity.
Carr’s victory concluded the first celebrity version of the BBC reality gameshow. Only one of the three non-celebrity UK series was won by a traitor.
The series was notable for the ineptitude of “the faithful”. Only two traitors were banished; in each of the three non-celebrity series there were five traitors banished.
Earlier on Thursday, the finale had been released online more than 24 hours before its UK broadcast slot. Viewers in Canada reported being able to view the episode in its entirety before it was pulled by the television network Crave.
Before the final, Burns said she did not believe she was a good liar, despite having avoided suspicion until the end of the series. The singer-songwriter was chosen to be a traitor alongside Carr and Jonathan Ross.
Appearing on BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, Scott Mills asked her whether the show had made her realise she was an excellent liar.
Burns replied: “I don’t think I am though. I don’t think I am that great of a liar.
“My mum watches me and she is like: ‘I can just tell that you are lying.’ But that’s the fun of the game isn’t it?”
The programme had an average of 12.6 million viewers across the first four episodes. - Guardian
