The Celebrity Traitors star Joe Marler has revealed he told his wife various lies about the BBC series.
The rugby player made it to the final of the BBC gameshow, missing out on the win as a Faithful, while the ultimate Traitor Alan Carr went on to win £87,500 for Neuroblastoma UK.
While the series had filmed earlier this year, with the likes of Cat Burns, Kate Garraway, Tom Daley, Sir Stephen Fry and Celia Imrie travelling to Ardross Castle in Scotland, the outcome of the murder mystery was kept tightly under wraps.
And now Joe has revealed he didn’t even tell his wife.
During an appearance on Loose Women today (Monday 10 November), he admitted: “I didn’t tell my wife when I came out what happened.
View 3 Images Joe Marler appeared on Loose Women today (Image: ITV)
“She’s such a fan, she wanted to be able to watch it and not know, so I told her eight different versions.
“By the time she got to the final, she was like, ‘No way!'”
Joe narrowly missed out on the win despite convincing the others he was 100% a Faithful and naming all three Traitors: Alan, Cat and Jonathan Ross.
He was blindsided by Nick Mohammed’s betrayal at the final moment, but holds no hard feelings and praised Alan as a worthy winner.
View 3 Images Joe Marler was voted out in the last episode (Image: BBC)
“We all absolutely loved Alan, he was himself from day one to the end, and he had us all in fits of laughter, maybe that played a part,” he said.
“Even though I suspected him, I was like, I love playing the game with you.”
He added: “He’s a great winner, had me and Nick done it, that’s not as good, is it?”
Joe went on to say that he “didn’t realise” how difficult it was to be a Traitor, until a conversation he had with Jonathan, who has been open about how much he struggled to lie and deceive on the show.
View 3 Images Joe admitted he would have struggled as a Traitor(Image: BBC)
“It hadn’t dawned on me that we’d played different roles and he spent his whole time lying, and it was clearly a burden, and a burden on Alan as well.”
Despite wanting to be a Traitor, Joe admitted he would have made a “terrible” one, and been left “panicking”.
Speaking of the “intense” roundtables, he added: “I remember sitting there [with my hand up] for the first couple of roundtables.”
“I was just really nervous,” he shared. “I started getting confident with it all and enjoyed myself with it more.”