Alan Carr opens the latest episode of the Global Original podcast Reel Talk with Honey and Jonathan Ross by admitting he was as shocked as anyone to win Celebrity Traitors.
He tells Jonathan and Honey that despite laughing in contestants’ faces early on, he somehow avoided being banished and fully expected to hear his name repeated at the round table almost immediately.
Jonathan asks how he managed to get away with it, but Alan insists he has no idea, while Honey credits his “electric charm”. Alan even jokes that perhaps the others were “just thick”!
The conversation shifts to the emotional final, which Alan describes as far more intense than he anticipated.
He says he and Paloma have become close friends and watching her and Celia fall in quick succession genuinely upset him.
He explains that he burst into tears partly because he was thinking of his chosen charity, Neuroblastoma, and partly because the pressure built to a point he had not expected.
Jonathan reminds him that he “murdered them both”, which Alan accepts with a dry laugh, adding that he even “handed it to Lucy”.
Alan then recounts the mock funeral for Paloma, revealing that the sequence was even darker in real life. He thought he would feel fine once she failed to appear at breakfast, then panicked when she arrived, realising he had not “murdered her right”.
Minutes later, Claudia appeared in a veil on horseback, leading the cast to two coffins. Alan says watching Paloma placed inside one, on a freezing, rainy day, felt like “the worst betrayal”.
Jonathan adds that filming took around forty-five minutes in the rain, with players lying in coffins during resets, and says he felt sorry for Paloma having to endure the conditions.
Alan says he was stunned when Jonathan asked him to “say a few words” on day one, calling it a surreal moment near a graveyard with their names engraved on fake headstones.
He also reveals what it felt like to be chosen as a traitor. Although the edit showed him confidently saying he wanted the role, Alan says he privately told Claudia he was nervous and unsure he could handle it.
As she stomped around the table, he felt disappointed when she passed him at first, then elated when she circled again and finally tapped him.
Jonathan says he briefly wished he had asked to be a traitor, but quickly realised that being a faithful would have been easier once the eliminations began.
Alan speaks warmly about Neuroblastoma, explaining that the charity’s website experienced a “seven thousand per cent increase” in traffic because so many viewers searched for it during the final. He says the charity representative burst into tears when he heard the result today, which deeply moved him.
Asked whether he would ever return to The Traitors, Alan says no, believing he would be “out first week” and that nothing could top this experience. Jonathan agrees and praises Alan’s win as a perfect ending.
The episode ends with a funny Hollywood tale from Adele’s Titanic-themed party, where Alan arrived dressed as the Unsinkable Molly Brown and drunkenly introduced himself to Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Ford. He reveals what Leonardo said and Tom’s reaction, a deadpan “You’d sink”, which leaves the hosts in hysterics.
Reel Talk with Honey and Jonathan Ross is available on Global Player now.
