{"id":669781,"date":"2026-10-30T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669781\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:02:14","slug":"the-richard-thing-was-very-embarrassing-joanne-mcnally-red-faced-over-traitors-gaffe-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669781\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Richard thing was very embarrassing\u2019: Joanne McNally red-faced over Traitors gaffe \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comedian Joanne McNally<\/a> has said thinking actor Richard E Grant was a faithful during her time on The Celebrity Traitors was \u201cvery embarrassing\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old was banished from the castle before Friday\u2019s final during Thursday\u2019s penultimate episode of the BBC<\/a> reality gameshow.<\/p>\n

During her time on the programme, she believed that Grant was not a traitor, despite the star saying he was a traitor mere moments after being chosen earlier in the series, which eventually led to him being banished.<\/p>\n

Speaking after leaving the show, McNally said: \u201cThe Richard thing was very embarrassing for me, it was a very early boo boo on my part.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Joanne McNally played a blinder on The Celebrity Traitors. Here are 15 of her best linesOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I learned about myself is that I believe men\u2019s lies. That was confronting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was absolutely convinced he was a faithful, but you know why? Because he told me he was, and apparently that\u2019s all it takes for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just blindly accept it as truth, and that is why I am still single. I\u2019m 43 with a string of failed, toxic relationships in my wake.\u201d<\/p>\n

McNally said she would like to see TV presenter Maya Jama, who is a traitor, and faithfuls Michael Sheen<\/a> and James Blunt<\/a> win the final.<\/p>\n

Speaking about her experience on The Celebrity Traitors, she added: \u201cIt was confronting. It was more hardcore than I could ever have imagined, and the speed at which you get sucked into the game is frightening.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go in, everyone\u2019s holding hands and laughing, and within 24 hours you\u2019re living in a palace of paranoia accusing your own mother of killing people, and she\u2019s not even in the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI underestimated the reality of the feelings that obviously you know we\u2019re all wired to be accepted by our tribe.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you can tell your nervous system over and over and over again it\u2019s a game but at the end of the day when an entire table is turning on you, holding your name up, or somebody else\u2019s, whatever way you want to phrase it, it doesn\u2019t bring out the best in you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comedian James Acaster was banished later in the same episode after he admitted he was a traitor during the roundtable.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old attracted heat in a discussion about former EastEnders star Ross Kemp\u2019s plain-sight murder, where he struggled to defend himself, and then admitted he was a traitor.<\/p>\n

He told the contestants: \u201cI just want to explain my situation. I was made a traitor without wanting to be, I\u2019ve had a unique experience on this that no-one\u2019s had before, where I wanted to be a faithful and that\u2019s all I\u2019ve wanted to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t just go, \u2018guys it\u2019s me, vote for me\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acaster said he had pointed out the perfume bottles, which killed Kemp during the murder, on purpose.<\/p>\n

After receiving the most votes at the roundtable, the comedian said: \u201cWhen I came into this experience I told Claudia (Winkleman, the show\u2019s presenter) that all I wanted to be was a faithful, and all I wanted to do is go around this castle and try and help the faithfuls as much as possible catching traitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud to say that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been able to do, under the circumstances. I am, reluctantly, a traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a cutaway scene, he added: \u201cI\u2019m glad that I was so faithful, that I couldn\u2019t make it to the end as a traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Celebrity Traitors final will be broadcast on Friday at 8pm on BBC One. – PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Joanne McNally has said thinking actor Richard E Grant was a faithful during her time on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1578,93,61,60,45750],"class_list":["post-669781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joanne-mcnally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669781","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=669781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}