Richard E. Grant kept the traitors Bella Ramsey chatter alive on Heart Radio when he admitted he had told Joe Lycett, “Yes, I’m a Traitor.” He said the mistake came after he had already blurted out the same thing on Celebrity Traitors, turning one slip into a second public misfire.
“I didn’t for a nanosecond think that he would actually believe it,” Grant said to Emma Bunton and Jason King. He also added, “I’ve got voodoo dolls of the lot of them now,” then followed it with, “Pinned into my wall.”
Joe Lycett and the first slip
Joe Lycett asked Grant whether he was a Faithful or a Traitor, and Grant answered, “I’m a Traitor.” That came after Grant had already said at the start of Celebrity Traitors that he wanted to be a Traitor, a rare case of a contestant stepping into the role and then exposing it himself in plain sight.
Grant later described the instinct behind that kind of slip on Classic FM, where he said, “I have a tendency to get to the punchline too quickly sometimes.” Earlier than intended, he also announced a prize winner on that appearance, which fits the same pattern: he reaches the reveal before the room is ready for it.
Emma Bunton and Jason King
On Heart Radio, the exchange with Emma Bunton and Jason King pushed the story beyond a single on-screen mistake. Grant did not just repeat the blunder; he spelled out the logic behind it, saying he did not think Joe Lycett would believe him, which makes the misstep sound less like strategy and more like reflex.
That is the problem for him inside Celebrity Traitors. Claudia Winkleman had already given Grant the tap and made him a Traitor, yet he has now undercut that advantage twice by saying the quiet part out loud. Fans reacting on Instagram read the Heart Radio comments as evidence that he would be banished, and the reaction shows how quickly one broadcast interview can reshape the game around a contestant.
Jerry Hall and the wall
Jerry Hall, described as Grant’s longtime friend and neighbour, sits outside the game, but the interview still widened the public picture of how loose his tongue has become. In a contest built on secrecy, a player who jokes about “voodoo dolls of the lot of them” pinned to his wall has already given viewers a clean reason to doubt his cover.
For now, the practical takeaway is simple: Grant is not being written out by the audience so much as by his own interviews. If he stays in Celebrity Traitors, he will need to say less, not more, because his best evidence of being a Traitor has started coming from his own mouth.
