Celebrity Traitors stars Kate Garraway and Clare Balding in fiery row ahead of tonight's final
Tensions are clearly still running high following Clare's banishment…
Celebrity Traitors stars Kate Garraway and Clare Balding locked horns live on daytime TV today (November 6), hours before the show’s final airs, and it made for explosive viewing.
Kate and Clare found themselves back at the roundtable today – albeit figuratively – during a tense exchange on Good Morning Britain.
It came as Clare appeared on the ITV breakfast show to promote her new book Pastures New – her first novel for adults that’s definitely NOT a bonkbuster! And, naturally, talk between the pair soon turned to The Celebrity Traitors before a ‘he-said-she-said’ row broke out…
Celebrity Traitors co-stars clash ahead of final episode
“She’s written her first novel for adults, which Kate says is a bonkbuster,” Kate’s co-host Ed Balls teased at the start of the interview.
“I did not say that!” Kate immediately shot back. “I was told that. Look, don’t start trouble between Clare and I all over again. It wasn’t me who said that, Clare. I’d like to assure you that was the impression we got from the producers.”
Clare replied: “No, that’s because Jilly Cooper told me to write it. But it’s not a bonk buster. It’s about love and faith and trust.”
Although the pair laughed it off and began to chat about the novel, the light-hearted mood didn’t last long.
“Did you like writing it? Because I always think of you doing stuff that’s fact-based.” Kate enquired. “Doing stuff?” Clare mocked. Then Kate couldn’t help but bring up Celebrity Traitors, and the drama quickly escalated.
‘I’m at the roundtable all over again’
“You can see what it was like,” Kate told viewers. “Can I just say, Clare was the first person in Celebrity Traitors to say that I was suspicious, and you can see how she is. I’m at the roundtable all over again.”
Clare jumped in, saying: “She kept arguing with me, Ed. She kept arguing ‘if somebody put your name down’. I never put your name down!” “But you told everyone you thought it was me!” Kate fired back. “At the roundtable,” Clare clarified. “Jonathan [Ross] and David [Olusoga] both said it was you,” Kate retorted. “Let’s carry on.”
Clare, however, was determined to have the final say and quipped: “If we’re going to go on who you should trust, if it’s a choice between me and Jonathan, stick with me, Kate.”
Kate smiled and clearly tried to cool the row as she admitted: “I should have done, and I do in real life.”
‘What is going on?!’
The back-and-forth left Kate’s co-host Ed Balls both bewildered and entertained. “What is going on?” he laughed. “This is better than watching on the TV!”
While Ed tried steering the interview back to Clare’s book, the veteran sports broadcaster wasn’t quite ready to move on. “I’m going to make a point. Is that alright?” she said, suddenly turning serious.
“It’s about the roundtable, and it’s about how you make voices heard,” she explained. “Because I believe all the time that sport is bigger than just the game being played. I think Celebrity Traitors is bigger than the game being played.”
Who wins The Celebrity Traitors?
The Celebrity Traitors wraps up tonight on BBC One.
The final sees cast members Alan Carr, Cat Burns, David Olusoga, Nick Mohammed and Joe Marler vying to win the prize pot for their chosen charities.
The BBC hasn’t shared a preview of the series, so we’re as in the dark as you over who wins. However, a landslide majority of our readers are backing Nick and Joe to win the crown and split the prize fund.
Read more: First look at tonight’s Celebrity Traitors finale as cast visit steam railway for series’ last task
Watch the final of The Celebrity Traitors on BBC One tonight (November 6) at 9pm
