Richard E Grant, the Saltburn star who admitted on the first episode of this year's Celebrity Traitors that he had been chosen as a Traitor, is facing possible banishment on Thursday, October 8, as the remaining celebrities decide his fate.
Despite his attempt to pass the admission off as a joke, suspicions have been raised. With all eyes on the 69-year-old, fans are curious about his life away from Claudia Winkleman's high-pressure reality show, including where he lives and his experience of tragedy.
Inside Richard E Grant's Home
The former Downton Abbey star lives in an 1830s Georgian Rectory in Petersham, Richmond, which he described as a "classic child's drawing of a square-shaped house with chimneys."
He told The English Home: "Crammed to the gunnels sums it up. It's maximalist from top to bottom and everything sideways and in between. Every room is a different colour and is jam-packed with 'loot'."
He added: "I find minimalism fascistic, cold and utterly boring. Taupe walls, a single piece of stick furniture and four anorexic vases with a flower angled in each one is my idea of 'interiors-hell'."
When asked if he ever brought back props after working on a show, Richard admitted that while it was "increasingly difficult", this hadn't stopped him from "ceaselessly trying". He shared: "Whilst filming at Shepperton Studios some years ago, I salvaged two giant plinths used on that set that had been dumped in a skip, which are now in my garden."
Richard E Grant's Wife
Richard shared his home with wife Joan, who was also a "lifelong collector" often drawn to antique shops to find treasures for their home. The couple met at the Actor's Centre in London in the 1980s and married in 1986, welcoming daughter Olivia, while Joan already had son Tom from a previous relationship.
Born in Aberdeen, Joan worked as a dialect coach for almost 40 years in the entertainment industry, working on major projects like Highlander and The Favourite. She tragically died of lung cancer in 2021 aged 74 after being diagnosed the previous year.
He told The Guardian two years ago: "I write to her every night. [I write down] everything. Stuff I know would amuse her… I have no spiritual or religious delusion that I'm ever going to get a reply." He then took to Instagram to mark the fifth anniversary of her death, telling his 1.2 million followers how much he valued their time together.
He shared: "Reflecting back on what it's like to grieve somebody, I feel unbelievable gratitude that I had almost four decades with her, because more than anybody in the whole world that I have ever met, she got me. I got her, and that seems to be the kind of holy grail gift that I never anticipated I would find in my life. I sure did with her."
Celebrity Traitors continues every Thursday and Friday at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
