It was inevitable that during the course of The Celebrity Traitors, the biggest show on TV, there would be certain contestants who would dominate both the roundtable discussions inside the Scottish castle, and the headlines out here in the real world. Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr, Celia Imrie, Kate Garraway – a lot of screen time and column inches have been dedicated to these players. But one man who has not been front and centre, and instead left to be consumed by the garish wallpaper, is 55-year-old historian David Olusoga.
This might be because, on the face of it, Olusoga does not make for thrilling, spiky reality TV. With his gentle nature, small smiles and soothing timbre, he seems more suited to a meditative podcast or, indeed, BBC programmes about the history of art (Civilisations) or residential buildings (A House Through Time).
