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Did he pull off an incredible feat? Or did the faithfuls act exceptionally – I mean sensational poorly? Debates will flourish through digital feeds for some time, in any case the successful contestant of the first – but surely not the last – season of The Celebrity Traitors is the deceptive Alan Carr.

Initially selected by the presenter, we thought he wouldn’t last a single hour. And he did not. “I am nauseous. I have a sweating problem and find it impossible to maintain a secret.” Additionally, he fails to whisper or remember whether he’s won a shield.

Yet, in the company, by several of the least astute players of the game in recent memory, he made it through, evolving into the role with frightening facility. He finished with a flourish, bursting into somewhat fake crying about how hard it had been for him to carry the murderous burden.

The last two loyal players, moved to reassure him (“It’s been tearing me apart!”). At home, many envisioned heavenward looks and shouts.

The Final Showdown

At the start of the final, there had been five surviving players of the original 19. Subsequent to one ultimate group mission, featuring a steam train, twenty thousand pounds in secure containers, tools and tips scattered across the compartments, and two chain-wrapped coffins (“I assumed control a bit there,” notes one participant of the revealing. “Since I was willing to lose a finger”), they gathered for their last round table.

A pair of players cast their votes for another player, in spite of the historian’s remarkable track of thinking his way to every wrong conclusion possible. I remain firm in my view that the individual would have made the planet’s best traitor, but as a faithful he was calamitous.

He succeeded to select another contestant at the gathering, nonetheless, and she was correctly eliminated at last.

Sorrow and Forgiveness

Down to the final quartet. It is difficult to recount to narrate what occurred afterward. One contestant … experienced a doubt. A period when he questioned his closest ally. One of the greatest love stories of recent history, between the biggest personality and the smallest figure on TV, the rugby player and the puzzlemaster, reeled under the impact as the uncertain player revealed his concluding choice to reveal his closest friend’s name.

The accused stood firm – he is not built for it – but were it possible, he would have. “But I love you,” the voter said, hopelessly.

The removed participant went, the last duo assumed they were in the clear and following a procedure featuring hurling satchels into a blaze, the trio decided to conclude the game.

Since he was the lone remaining deceiver, Alan was announced as the victor and claimed the complete cash sum for the youth oncology foundation. However, the crucial point is that when the host led the five to a meeting on the fortress stairs, amends was swift.

Parting with the Players

I will, together with the more than 13 million other audience members, miss them all. (Apart from a couple of participants who lacked the occasion to achieve a lot, and one more who never apologised for mishandling a specific task.)

I am going to regret the loss of the profound rage of one player, the Shakespearean sorrow of a separate player, the complete failure of a further contestant to view challenges through a personal lens.

I am going to feel the absence of one participant’s distrust of complex vocabulary, a pair’s cleverness, a singer’s undeniable aura, a musician as the embodiment of everything that stays positive in this fallen world, a veteran host as television’s last remaining showman, a sweet-natured contestant and the constant uncle-like charm of an adored individual, along with all the last-round players.

Above all I shall miss the dignity and style of a particular contestant, so remarkably majestic even when yelling into a shaft or passing gas in a hut. As the individual beneath the presenter’s locks made clear on many occasions, you were, mostly, awful at the game. However, you served as superb, fantastic amusement.

This celebrity edition is accessible for watching at present.