That episode was unexpected to say the leastpublished at 21:31 BST 1 October
21:31 BST 1 October
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter and loyal faithful
Richard E Grant just threw a huge curve ball – as Rob Beckett correctly observed, the actor did something no one has done on the show before.
To openly say he was a traitor wasn’t part of some clever gameplan – he genuinely did it by “mistake” – he said so himself.
So instead of the traitors enjoying choosing who to recruit and who to kill off first, it became a very tense moment for Grant and Maya Jama.
They had to choose the celebrities putting the most pressure on Grant after his admission.
This put a whole new perspective on it – choose the wrong person and Grant could be banished at the next round table.
But it made for compelling TV.
Who would have thought this would happen in episode one? It has taken everyone by surprise.