‘Cat Burns voted me out of Celebrity Traitors – that was her biggest mistake’

*Warning: This article contains spoilers for Celebrity Traitors episode 8.

Kate Garraway couldn’t come forward with a single theory on Celebrity Traitors – but now she’s been banished, she’d come up with the strongest one yet.

Last night, the two remaining Traitors, Alan Carr and Cat Burns, managed to manipulate the Faithful once again to vote out another of their own at the most pivotal point in the game before the final.

Joe Marler, Nick Mohammad and David Olusoga are the only Faithful left, and they are onto the Traitors.

After Kate’s banishment, everything clicked for Joe, and he is adamant that Cat and Alan have been mercilessly killing off players – and he’s spot on.

Alan couldn’t even keep a straight face when asked to simply say ‘I’m a Faithful’, collapsing into a fit of giggles. Strangely, I don’t think that will harm him as much as it should.

But they have no concrete evidence against Cat – or do they?

Speaking to Metro after her banishment, Kate told us that Cat shot herself in the foot by voting the Good Morning Britain presenter out of the game.

‘I think she might be done for now, she shouldn’t have voted for me,’ said the broadcaster.

‘Everybody seemed to be divided between David and I last night, and she’s left herself the only woman in the game, so surely the faithfuls left going to think on it wouldn’t have had an all-male Traitors?’

Kate’s absolutely right – Claudia Winkleman would never pick three male Traitors, particularly as she made a point to select three women in series three after Harry Clarke only ever recruited men to join him in the turret.

‘She’s left herself a bit exposed,’ said Kate.

However, of all three Traitors, the singer-songwriter is the only one who wasn’t on Kate’s radar at all in the game.

‘I was definitely onto Jonathan Ross. Every time I raised him, everybody just said, “Oh no, not Jonathan.” So I thought, “If I’m going to go for him around this round table, I’m going to be alone.

‘I wasn’t onto Cat because we had a lot of deep conversations about things in there, about stuff not to do with the game. I didn’t know her at all before I went in there, but I loved her bits, and I was blown away by her ability to deceive. She is a mastermind.’

For Kate, the ‘Big Dog’ theory – that either Stephen Fry or Jonathan Ross was leader of the Traitors – raised her suspicions of Alan. But no one else ever put his name forward in the mix.

‘I always thought Alan had the capacity to be a big dog,’ she said. ‘The thing about Alan is, though, he’s just so much fun to be around, he made me laugh so much that if I wasn’t such a loyal Faithful, then I think he should win.

‘But I am a Faithful, so he’s got to go.’

Other players were suspicious of Kate from the moment she lifted her blindfold after Claudia had picked her trinity of killers. But no one was more wary of the reporter than Tom Daley, who didn’t trust a single thing she said – particularly alarmed by her use of the word ‘flabbergasted’.

I can confirm, without a hint of irony, that Kate said ‘flabbergasted’ multiple times during this interview, too.

Kate divulged: ‘Watching the whole thing back is a shock, but I had so many lovely chats with Tom about knitting, and he was fashioning Faithful and Traitor hats that he was going to make. I had no idea that he thought I was an evil genius until I watched it back.

‘It’s a big old castle, the only time you’re all together is during the missions, where you’re distracted by achieving the missions, and you’re all rooting for each other anyway, otherwise you’re in your own little group.

’It’s been really surprising to see how much people were suspicious of me all the way along. I felt it at the roundtable – but people really were deeply suspicious of me. The thing that didn’t surprise me was the fact they voted me the weakest.’

She laughs, but during her final roundtable, she was called ‘ditsy’ and often branded a terrible Faithful – so much so that others couldn’t believe she was genuinely that bad at the game.

‘I thought it was absolutely hilarious,’ she chuckled. ‘I love when Alan decided that it wouldn’t be any point in murdering me, because it would be ineffective if I didn’t come to breakfast, because everyone would just assume I got into a broom cupboard and couldn’t find my way out.

‘In a weird way, my general confusion, discombobulation and ridiculousness saved me for a lot longer than I probably deserved.’

Celebrity Traitors concludes Thursday at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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