{"id":349646,"date":"2026-01-03T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349646\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:56:07","slug":"the-traitors-and-the-masked-singer-prop-makers-thrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349646\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors and The Masked Singer prop maker&#8217;s &#8220;thrill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Celebrity Traitors, which was won by Alan Carr, was one of the biggest TV hits of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Simpson, the owner of Plunge Creations in Portslade, East Sussex, created the chess props for one of the challenges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_sussex\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Sussex<\/a>: &#8220;The giant traitor which moves about on the chess board &#8211; this creepy, iconic character &#8211; was one of ours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it creeps people out. That&#8217;s what nightmares are made of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Simpson and his team created the other giant chess pieces too, including the snake and the rat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking of the new series of The Traitors, which began on Thursday on BBC 1, he said: &#8220;We have had a hand in it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;ve come up with something for one of the games &#8211; but it&#8217;s all top secret. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was fun and a nice thing to build. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You will know it when you see it. It will pop up and surprise you.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors, which was won by Alan Carr, was one of the biggest TV hits of 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-349646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}