James Blunt may have made it to the final day in the Celebrity Traitors castle – but he’s claimed that wasn’t quite his intention.
In a new interview with the BBC, the Brit Award winner said that he was originally hoping he’d be given the boot early doors, as “we all get paid the same, whether you’re there for day one or day 23”.
“For most of the time, I was trying to… get the hell out of dodge,” he quipped. “But no-one was killing me and no-one was banishing me!”
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The You’re Beautiful singer recalled that, at first, his strategy was to fly under the radar, recognising that often quieter contestants are often the ones who are “murdered” first.
As those who watched Celebrity Traitors will know, though, this strategy didn’t last long, as James found it “really boring”
“So for me, I just thought, ‘Let’s just go around and come up with theories’,” he continued. “You don’t see it in the edit, but I was telling everyone, ‘It doesn’t matter [who goes], just kill them all!’.
“It’s fine, as long as you’re apologetic when you get it wrong.”
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But that’s not the only thing James said didn’t make it into the final edit.
The chart-topping singer has also suggested that James Acaster’s now-infamous banishment played out very differently in the room, with the rest of the cast catching the comedian in a lie before he confessed to them about being a Traitor.
“You didn’t see the full extent of the interrogation,” the Grammy nominee has insisted. “It was heavy in there and it was clear-cut. He was pinned to a post. We got him. We really, really got him.”
Meanwhile, eventual winner Romesh Ranganathan has also clarified where things stand between himself and James Blunt now, after making it through to the final round of voting together.
