{"id":659426,"date":"2026-10-19T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/659426\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:58:11","slug":"bbc-denies-james-acaster-complained-over-celebrity-traitors-banter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/659426\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Denies James Acaster Complained Over ‘Celebrity Traitors’ Banter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe BBC<\/a> has denied that \u201cCelebrity Traitors<\/a>\u201d contestant James Acaster made a complaint about fellow competitors\u2019 teasing and \u201cmacho banter,\u201d saying the claims are \u201ccategorically untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA Mail on Sunday report over the weekend claimed Acaster had \u201ccomplained to producers\u201d he was being teased by competitors Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan and was \u201cuncomfortable\u201d with the duo\u2019s \u201cmacho banter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement Monday, the BBC denied the story, saying: \u201cClaims of teasing amongst the cast on the show and claims of complaints about teasing are categorically untrue. There were no incidents of this nature and there is no evidence to support these allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA source added \u201cthe reality is the complete opposite\u201d and that agents for the three contestants, who are all well-known British comedians, were \u201caware\u201d and had told the Mail on Sunday the story was not true.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Traitors\u201d and its celebrity spin-off is produced by Banijay-owned Studio Lambert, known for shows including \u201cSquid Game: The Challenge\u201d and \u201cGooglebox,\u201d and fronted by Claudia Winkleman.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show has become an unlikely juggernaut in the U.K., averaging an unprecedented 9.3 million live viewers for its latest episode, which saw comedian Joe Lycett get banished from the castle. Other contestants for the celebrity version this season have included Bella Ramsey, James Blunt, Jerry Hall, Michael Sheen and Richard E. Grant.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Traitors\u201d was created by IDTV (now part of Banijay follows the merger with All3Media), first airing in the Netherlands in 2021 on RTL4 under the title \u201cDe Verraders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has denied that \u201cCelebrity Traitors\u201d contestant James Acaster made a complaint about fellow competitors\u2019 teasing and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1578,321,43210,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-659426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bbc","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-traitors","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}