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\n The beloved British comedian turned ruthless on Celebrity Traitors and charmed his way into American hearts in the process.
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Alan Carr is the best Traitor of all time. Sure, maybe Cirie Fields<\/a> or Harry Clark played a better game<\/a>, but no one else managed to go so undetected while giving the audience so much to watch. Carr, a comedian and presenter best known for hosting the talk show Chatty Man from 2009 to 2017, started off The Celebrity Traitors terrified, shaking and sweating under the emotional weight of the Traitor\u2019s cloak. The very first kill he had to carry out was a \u201cmurder in plain sight,\u201d which required him to brush another player\u2019s face. In a fit of terror, he caressed his best friend in the house, Paloma Faith, and promptly lost his greatest ally. It was entertaining, but it did not inspire confidence in his gameplay.<\/p>\n Over the course of the following nine episodes, however, Carr evolved into a coldhearted killer. For his next murder in plain sight, he gleefully offed British national treasure Celia Imrie. He voted out fellow Traitor Jonathan Ross with nothing more than a sigh. Ultimately, he won the entire game by convincing Faithfuls Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga to vote off Joe Marler instead of him, despite Joe leading the charge against previous Traitor eliminees Ross and Cat Burns. While airing in the U.K. on the BBC, the series became a viral success in the States and is now streaming in full on Peacock. Carr was a huge part of that phenomenon, his performance so entertaining that reports have since emerged that the BBC is considering rebooting Chatty Man. \u201cI\u2019ve been on the telly for over 20 years now,\u201d Carr says, \u201cand I have never ever had a reaction to my work like this.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.K. Celebrity Traitors cast is filled with bigger names than the Traitors gets in the United States. What was the casting process like? Who did you immediately want to work with? Then you murdered him in half a second. He\u2019s a keen knitter, and when he was murdered, I went back into the room in the turret and his ball of wool was there. He\u2019d been murdered mid-stitch. That image will haunt me till the day I die.<\/p>\n What was the chemistry like among the Traitors? The show portrayed the Paloma kill as almost unintentional, but it worked out so well for you throughout the season. Did you have the strategy in the back of your mind? You didn\u2019t think, This could be kind of good for me, at all? Jonathan made a really bold play early on in cutting Ruth Codd. What did you think of that? Do you think there was a way for him to make it to the end? I think you could stay under the radar largely because of the early Paloma murder \u2014 it immediately became canon for the rest of the game that Alan isn\u2019t a Traitor. I think one of the smartest moves you made, looking back, is murdering Joe Wilkinson. When did you get a sense he was onto you? The Celia murder was a marquee moment for you. Did you learn anything from Paloma\u2019s murder in plain sight that you used here? But the thing is, I loved Celia, and I thought the actual nature of the task meant I had to kill Celia. If I said that to Joe Marler, this big, stocky rugby player with a scowl \u2014 that \u201cparting is such sweet sorrow\u201d \u2014 when he died, you\u2019d go, \u201cWhat?\u201d The task did force my hand. And I love Celia, even though she was constantly farting.<\/p>\n Can you explain how you got the house to turn on Joe Marler? You\u2019re not a bad person. It\u2019s the game. You\u2019re playing for charity. Can you contextualize for American viewers just how successful this show was in the U.K.? It\u2019s very bittersweet because I don\u2019t think I will ever ever be involved in something that was so Zeitgeist-y, that grabbed your attention like this. Paps were outside my house following me. No one gives a shit about my life normally. Not even me.<\/p>\n There were reports that the BBC was looking into bringing back your talk show, Chatty Man. I don\u2019t know what you can say about that, but I\u2019m curious about what the show has done for you professionally. Someone said Traitors reminded people of what Chatty Man was like. It was a bit of chaos. I do quiz shows now, and I do renovation shows, and I\u2019m a judge. But Chatty Man was about getting drunk with Lady Gaga or Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift. It has done me the world of good. For someone who was famous for three weeks for murdering intellectuals, national treasures, and Olympians, there\u2019s a hell of a lot of love out there for me. And I\u2019m just enjoying it. It hasn\u2019t always been like this.<\/p>\n
The BBC kept it very quiet. We were asked whether we wanted to do it, and they wouldn\u2019t say who else had agreed, so you were putting feelers out in the showbiz world. I heard a rumbling that Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross were cast. I would bring it up to people: \u201cAre you doing it?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know whether I am. Are you going to do it?\u201d If you were a celebrity, you would get asked. There was Courteney Cox at one point, Graham Norton, Amanda Holden. I signed up because I love Traitors. But then Daisy May Cooper, who is a friend of mine, pulled out, and I was like, No, no, no! It\u2019s going to be just me with a load of fit Love Island people in swimsuits, and I\u2019m this fat joke. But then the cast got leaked before we went on there.<\/p>\n
Tom Daley. I mean, who wouldn\u2019t want to work with him?<\/p>\n
I got so much abuse when I murdered him, the gays going, \u201cGreat, kill the only eye candy in the castle.\u201d And I was like, Hello!<\/p>\n
There was something for everyone, really. Cat was so unbelievably cool, calm, and collected. Jonathan was the mastermind. His strategy in the castle was that he sailed quite closely to the wind, didn\u2019t he, where I was just playing dumb and ditsy. I thought it was a really good mix.<\/p>\n
Look, I had to get the kill done by midnight, and it had gone past 11. I was getting so stressed, and touching someone\u2019s face is so intimate. I would have loved to have touched Tom Daley\u2019s face or Joe Marler, but Paloma was my friend. Then I woke up, and at breakfast, Paloma comes through the door and I go, My God, it didn\u2019t work! Yes! She\u2019s alive! Cut to half an hour later, I\u2019m shoving her into a coffin in a graveyard, watching her be taken away. It was the worst ending ever for me.<\/p>\n
When I sat round the table, people were coming up to me and patting me on the back going, \u201cAlan, you must be feeling so bad.\u201d Off-camera, people were saying, \u201cThere\u2019s a mental health person here that you can talk to about losing your friend.\u201d And I was like, \u201cI\u2019m okay. I\u2019ll take each day as it comes.\u201d I realized it was a bit of a masterstroke.<\/p>\n
Ruth is such a smart cookie. Everyone else kind of dithered at the roundtable \u2014 for how clever David and Stephen are, they\u2019d come out with these theories and never follow them through. Ruth was a Jack Russell with a bone. She was like, \u201cI know it\u2019s you.\u201d One more roundtable and I think she would have exposed everything. Jonathan is an alpha male. He is a big dog.<\/p>\n
I think he went as far as he could, to be honest. There is a downside to being an alpha. I could stay under the radar.<\/p>\n
Yes. It was like Claudia came in and said, \u201cAnyone in here could be a Traitor \u2026 apart from lovely Alan.\u201d That\u2019s how it felt. I was so immune to it, Clare Balding went, \u201cI\u2019m just going to put Alan\u2019s name down on the slate.\u201d She said it so apologetically: \u201cSorry, I\u2019ve got to put someone!\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cThat\u2019s all right, Clare. We all make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking back, both Joes were a thorn in my side. We just picked off the fiery ones like Mark Bonnar, Tom Daley, Joe Wilkinson, and Ruth. I hate to say this \u2014 I love Kate Garraway, but there was no way she was going to suddenly point a finger at us and go, \u201cIt\u2019s you and I\u2019m not leaving this table until we nominate Jonathan or Cat or Alan.\u201d David was always on about these theories but never put anything into practice, and with Charlotte Church, I love what Cat said: \u201cShe\u2019s always so loud and so wrong.\u201d
Joe Marler was playing dumb with me. He told us he thought it was Nick and David at final five, and we were like, \u201cWe have won this!\u201d Then at the roundtable, he goes for Cat.<\/p>\n
I was nervous, but I wasn\u2019t as nervous. There\u2019s moments throughout \u2014 when I was sweating and drinking, when I laughed in their face and couldn\u2019t say I was a Faithful, when I forgot I had a shield \u2014 when I thought I was going to get caught. Among them was killing Celia; when have I ever quoted Shakespeare?<\/p>\n
I did that lie when it came time for the roundtable. I said, \u201cAll I know is, Joe, I don\u2019t trust you, and you\u2019re telling everyone to vote for Nick and David, and I don\u2019t like it.\u201d I planted the seed, and that was the thing that turned. I was just immune to it, and if you wrongly take me out of the equation and Cat\u2019s gone, but Joe\u2019s there, it had to be Joe. I don\u2019t think he did anything wrong. I think he was doing everything right. I\u2019m a bad person.<\/p>\n
No one wants to hear about charities. The BBC edits out when the celebrities were sitting around talking about charities. They want to see celebrities backstabbing! Of course they never keep that in because it slows the plot and people don\u2019t want to hear about that. But obviously, I was doing it for the children\u2019s cancer charity. When you take that out of the equation, you just get portrayed as the sociopath who can\u2019t stop killing. People watch and go, \u201cHow could he kill all these people?\u201d I was like, \u201cI must win for my charity.\u201d That\u2019s when I burst into tears at the end. It was poor little Nick Mohammed\u2019s face; he was so pleased. David looked at me and Nick looked at me like, We\u2019ve got this! I was like, No, love, I\u2019ve got this.<\/p>\n
At one point, one in four people were watching it. It\u2019s so funny \u2019cause I\u2019ll be walking through the park and people are shouting, \u201cAlan, you murderer! Who you going to murder today?\u201d And I know a lot of people watched it, but there\u2019s quite a few who didn\u2019t, so they must be looking at me thinking, Who is this serial killer they\u2019ve released?<\/p>\n
Listen, I\u2019d love Chatty Man to come back, but that report was one of those clickbaity things. It was just the rumor mill. But I\u2019ve had some streamers get involved and \u2026 I mean, who knows? Nothing is set in stone. It\u2019s an exciting time for me. I\u2019m just going to enjoy it. I\u2019m going on a stand-up tour, and I\u2019ve done America before but tiny places. It might be nice to play more of America. If anyone knows me over there, it\u2019s through RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race U.K. I have been around for over 20 years.<\/p>\n