Alan Carr, heretofore known as a thoroughly pleasant individual, has spent The Celebrity Traitors flagrantly murdering his fellow contestants and sidestepping unwanted attention as much as someone who looks and sounds like Alan Carr reasonably can. He has undeniably been the breakout star of the show – but at what cost? Carr (jokingly?) revealed this week that he has fled to Florida after becoming “the most hated man in the UK”. His crimes? Mercilessly cutting off opportunities for Tom Daley to exhibit his collections of knits! Executing his good friend Paloma Faith and not even pretending to feel bad about it! Simply being too bloody good at all of this!
The funny thing, though, is that Carr actually isn’t very good at all of this, in the clearest sense of the word. But much like the chameleonic power of the “boring, laddie, straight Traitor from Slough” on the regular Traitors, “loud, campy gay Traitor” has its own strange transmogrifying effects on the celebrity edition: Carr’s nervous giggles become nothing but nervous giggles; his excessive sweating a mere bodily issue; his winking evilness just a bit of knowing humour. Somehow he just endlessly gets away with it.
