Celebrity Traitors star takes swipe at Alan Carr after 'horrible' murder
The Celebrity Traitors continued their killing spree this week and no one was safe - with Alan Carr murdering a national treasure in the latest face-to-face elimination
Celia Imrie has admitted it felt “horrible” to be murdered on the Traitors by Alan Carr - but she enjoyed the overall experience. The 73-year-old actor was killed off by Alan on the BBC series when he said the line “Parting is such sweet sorrow” from a William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
And so it was not case of All’s Well That Ends Well for Celia who was forced to leave the show. She said: “I didn’t know I was being murdered at the time, did I? I thought Mr Carr was trying to kiss me! The Treach.
"Anyway, the next morning was really horrible, and I hope they missed me at breakfast. I was having such good fun. It was like being made to go home in the middle of a marvellous party.
"It was sort of unbelievable when I saw that envelope - I wasn't ready for it at all. But then I thought ‘well, you shouldn't have shouted, you shouldn't have spoken up so clearly’, but I knew that we had to really join forces. In my last roundtable, I knew we had to gather together otherwise we'd never get a Traitor out, and so I was quite forceful.”
She insisted she felt she had kept the promise she made to her son and best friend to ‘just be yourself!’
She added: “Its a rather bizarrely unnerving part to play, and I’ve been quite nervous. In interviews on television, and generally, you’re promoting something so you can sort of put your conversation into either a new book or a new programme, or a new film, but to be completely bare, as I call it, is a new a new way of being for me and I hope that I have been.”
And she has also made some new friends whilst playing the game. She said: “I knew Stephen [Fry] because we’d worked together years ago on a programme called Kingdom, and I’ve met him occasionally since then.
"I met Clare [Balding] on the Queen Victoria ship, and I discovered on my last roundtable that I was the only person that Jonathan [Ross] didn’t know and we didn’t know each other - although I admired him from a distance. Paloma [Faith] and I were in St. Trinian’s together so I was thrilled to see her again as I hadn’t seen her in ages. I was really fond of Cat [Burns], I hadn’t met her before or Niko.
“I didn’t know them at all. I didn’t know what their careers or lives were. Just because I’m of a different age group, I don’t know them, but that is part of the joy of this show. You cross paths with people that you would make a brilliantly mixed team with.”
Asked to sum up the experience in three words she said: “Bizarre, controlled and daring.”
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