Alan Carr has been revealed as the winner of the first celebrity edition of BBC's murder mystery game show, The Celebrity Traitors. The comedian, who played as a traitor, secured the £87,500 prize for charity after a tense finale that saw fellow traitor Cat Burns banished and faithful Joe Marler wrongly identified.
The final challenge involved a steam train journey where contestants had to retrieve five gold bars in 20 minutes before the train exploded. They succeeded, adding £20,000 to the prize fund. Carr, overcome with emotion, declared, "I am and have always been a traitor," adding, "I'm so sorry, it's been tearing me apart." He was comforted by faithfuls David Olusoga and Nick Mohammed, with Mohammed praising Carr for playing "an absolute blinder."
The episode, which aired in the UK on Friday, was accidentally released online in Canada more than 24 hours early before being pulled by network Crave. The series has been the most-watched TV programme of the year so far, averaging 12.6 million viewers across its first four episodes.
Carr's victory marks a rare win for a traitor in the UK version of the show, with only one of the three non-celebrity series being won by a traitor. The faithfuls struggled throughout, banishing only two traitors compared to five in each civilian series.
