Winner of Celebrity Traitors, Alan Carr, fended off a man with a knife who approached his close friend while the pair were on holiday, according to a report.
Friend Cleo Rocos, 63, was on holiday with Traitors star Alan in Marrakesh, Morocco, when a man jumped out from the dark and grabbed her.
When she pushed him away, the man doubled down with his grip and ‘pulled out a knife’.
In ‘really bad English’, Cleo said the man told her he wanted to be with her.
Cleo told The Sun: ‘We didn’t think he was being serious but then he pulled a knife out.’
It was at this moment that Alan intercepted and managed to save Cleo.
She recalls that Alan was ‘surprisingly calm’ in the situation which left her shaken.
‘He pulled me to the other side of him, so he was standing between me and the man, and he said, “Don’t be so rude”‘, Cleo remembered.
Alan then ‘slapped the knife out of his hand’ before he had time to react.
Cleo says Alan ‘literally saved her life’, by reacting so quickly in a night that ‘could have gone terribly wrong’.
In the 80s, Cleo starred alongside Kenny Everett as his sidekick in the 1980s TV show, The Kenny Everett Television Show.
She now lives in Brazil, and runs the AquaRiva tequila company.
Describing her friend Alan, Cleo says: ‘He is much taller than people realise and he is also strong and chivalrous despite his nervous demeanour.’
The comedian shocked viewers in this series of Celebrity Traitors by showing his capabilities as a liar as he tricked the Faithfuls all the way to the final.
His commitment to the game involved him murdering Faithful friend Paloma Faith very early on.
Fans couldn’t believe he killed off someone he knew so well, but Alan defended his decision.
But in the end it all got a bit much for the TV star – who broke down in tears as he revealed his true identity to fellow players Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga.
The players and host, Claudia Winkleman, rushed to comfort Alan and reassure him that it was only a game.
He won £87,500 for Neuroblastoma UK, a charity which he told the podcast Uncloaked, was ‘so close to [his] heart’.
On his success, Cleo told The Sun: ‘I think this will fling doors wide open for him’, adding that he’d make ‘a great Bond villain, like the one with the cat, because they are always a little comical.
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