Miranda Hart says she is still living with elements of ME as she prepares to appear on season two of The Celebrity Traitors. She says the return to TV feels possible now, but not easy: the illness brings fatigue and pain, and the show will challenge her body.
Miranda Hart and season two
Season two is the point at which the comeback becomes visible. Hart said she feels well enough to step out and do the show, but also that it will take courage because this is a big next step.
That is the practical story here: a return to television built around a condition that has kept her away for a long time. Hart has said she was bed- and house-bound with a fatigue-based chronic illness before diagnosis, and that absence now hangs over the move back into a high-profile competition.
, ME and the pain
Hart told the that once you have been bed- and house-bound with a fatigue-based chronic illness that takes a long time to be diagnosed, you miss life a lot. She also said, “I'm still living with elements of ME, and that brings fatigue and pain to manage, but I have come to a point where I feel well enough to step out, and that's also partly why I'm doing this,” and added, “The joy of mucking about on television again will hopefully outweigh some of the challenges.”
She was blunter about the physical cost: “And I think it will be challenging on my body, so it'll be interesting, and it'll take some courage, as this is a big next step.” For viewers, that means her appearance is not just a return to TV; it is also a test of how much a chronic illness can be managed inside a demanding entertainment format.
I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You
In 2024, Hart’s book I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You came out, and she used that period to speak about what living with a chronic illness looks like when other people cannot see it. “When you live with a chronic illness, it's invisible, so people don't know that you're sitting there in pain,” she said, adding that she hoped people around her could “carry me up a hill or whatever we're going to have to do!”
That is the sharpest reading of this return: Hart is not presenting recovery as complete, only as enough to re-enter TV work on terms that still include fatigue, pain and caution. Bella Ramsey and Romesh Ranganathan are also named as contestants, but Hart’s own health remains the part that determines how much of the season she can physically absorb.
