The comedy star has entertained many millions of fans over recent weeks – now he will reap the benefits of clinching the £87,500 prize for charity
17:08, 07 Nov 2025Updated 17:57, 07 Nov 2025
Alan was a deserving winner of Celeb Traitors and says he used humour to deflect attention away(Image: BBC/Studio Lambert/Paul Chappells)
Alan Carr is set to reap the rewards of winning The Celebrity Traitors with a raft of new TV offers that could even see him as a new host of Strictly Come Dancing. The comedian already fronts series including the BBC’s makeover show Alan and Amanda’s Greek Job, quiz Picture Slam, ITV sitcom Changing Ends plus he has signed up for the second run of Amazon Prime Video’s huge hit Last One Laughing.
But thanks to his stellar performance on Celebrity Traitors, he is now being considered as a replacement for Strictly’s outgoing Claudia Winkleman – and there are also rumours that his former long-running Channel 4 series Chatty Man could return.
One source said: “Alan’s comedy talents were showcased perfectly in the Traitors castle and it’s reminded many people just how funny he is. Even people who claimed they didn’t like him before have loved watching him laugh and lie his way through the episodes. It would be no surprise if Chatty Man now got a reboot – not necessarily on Channel 4 – and the Beeb could do way worse than letting Alan loose in the ballroom. He’d be a hoot.”
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Alan is set to land new gigs off the back of his Celebrity Traitors triumph(Image: BBC)
The finale was filled with shocks, first with Traitor Cat Burns being voted off thanks to a change of heart from Joe Marler, and then Joe also being shown the door after Nick Mohammed got cold feet about him at the last minute.
Viewers saw Alan burst into tears as he won the prize, telling them: “I’m so sorry, it’s been tearing me apart.” Speaking afterwards the comic, 49, said he couldn’t help the outpouring of emotion at the very end as he was revealed as a traitor to losing faithful Nick and David Olusoga.
“I think all the deceit, the lying, the murdering of Paloma and Celia had all taken its toll and then I think it dawned on me that I had won such a huge amount for my charity, Neuroblastoma UK,” he explained. “Hopefully when people see how upset I was they won’t feel so bad that I killed all those national treasures.”
Joe Marler and Cat Burns were both banished during Thursday’s tense finale – leaving Alan to take the win(Image: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
He said that when he told the charity the good news about his £87,500 win they were overwhelmed. “I told one person at the charity and they started crying, so that gives you some idea of how important this money will be to them. Neuroblastoma is such a cruel disease, and this money will literally save lives. It’s a charity and disease that no one has really heard of so with the viewing figures being what they are it’s going to be so good for the charity.”
He said that his non-stop comedy was behind his win. “Humour was my secret weapon in the castle,” he declared. “I would often deflect scrutiny and make a gag about something which would then throw everyone off the scent. My sense of humour was probably more useful to me than a shield.”
And Alan admitted that he couldn’t believe he got away with two murders in plain sight – first Paloma Faith and then Celia Imrie. “Spouting Shakespeare at the dinner party was so not me that I thought it would’ve been a red flag to the faithful – but at breakfast no one mentioned it,” he laughed. Alan said he’d also loved the reaction of the audience since the show began last month. “The memes have been so funny, I’ve loved them all. Someone did a song which included all my Traitors quotes – it’s quite catchy actually and I think it should be entered for Eurovision.”
Alan took to being picked as one of Claudia’s traitors like a duck to water – once he got going(Image: CREDIT LINE:BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
In terms of advice for future players, Alan confessed he had no idea what his game strategy had been. “Although I won, I don’t know if I was a really good Traitor or if the Faithfuls were just useless.”
Yesterday Cat, 25, claimed her downfall came about because she was the last woman standing – and the others believed there would be a female among the traitors. “In hindsight, I think if we didn’t banish Kate (Garraway) before, I probably would have had a chance as there would have been two women left,” she told BBC Breakfast.
Alan was last seen interviewing A-listers on Chatty Man back in 2016, before it ended after 16 series. At the time he said this was due to the difficulty of securing three guests an episode across a 30-week run, while competing with ITV’s Jonathan Ross and BBC1’s Graham Norton. He also said that Channel 4’s decision to shift it from Friday to Thursday had sounded the death knell.