A Celebrity Traitors star has unveiled how she regularly saw a BBC psychologist during the filming of the eagerly anticipated series.
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, 19 celebrities are headed to Scotland for the ultimate game of treachery.
Kicking off this Wednesday on October 8, the A-listers will battle it out to win £100,000 for their chosen charity.
Last week, social media influencer Niko Omilana explained how his experience of lying to the leader of the KKK might help him during the series.
Now, however, Paloma Faith – who is joining the likes of Alan Carr, Stephen Fry, and Kate Garraway on the BBC spin-off – has shed light on how difficult the series was to film.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday ahead of the series launch, the singer, 44, explained how intense the filming process was.
She said: ‘It is not on camera – I went to see them [welfare] all the time. Yeah, it was a therapist.
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‘I definitely learned some things about myself that I thought I had moved on from, from my childhood and everything.
‘I guess it is a game of trust, isn’t it? So it is quite unsettling when you feel like everyone you know might not be as trustworthy as they seem – everyone is playing a game and it is hard to rationalise.’
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‘I guess it is a game of trust, isn’t it? So it is quite unsettling when you feel like everyone you know might not be as trustworthy as they seem.
‘Everyone is playing a game and it is hard to rationalise.’
This comes after Claudia revealed that she was ‘scared’ at the prospect of a Celebrity spin-off.
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Explaining how she wanted to protect the beloved series, she said: ‘I was scared.
‘Only because I’m in love with this show and I wanted to keep it small. Once a year or maybe once every two years felt like enough. My bosses, thank goodness, ignored everything I said.’
Who’s in the Celebrity Traitors cast?
- Lucy Beaumont
- Alan Carr
- Paloma Faith
- Jonathan Ross
- Niko Omilana
- Ruth Codd
- Celia Imrie
- Kate Garraway
- Tom Daley
- Stephen Fry
- Mark Bonnar
- Tameka Empson
- Clare Balding
- David Olusoga
- Joe Wilkinson
- Charlotte Church
- Joe Marler
- Cat Burns
- Nick Mohammed
Discussing what it was like to film with such icons, the 53-year-old added: ‘It was scarier, because all I wanted to do was chat to them and make them like me. But of course, I have to be extremely unlikeable. It was tricky!’
‘When I talked to Stephen Fry I almost welled up. I told him this was my dream. I could barely breathe when I saw them all in the Highlands.’
The Celebrity Traitors begins on Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.
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