Island Life

In just five years, De Verraders – an innovative TV show from the Netherlands – has spawned 60 series worldwide, of which the BBC’s current Celebrity Traitors is just the latest. But few of them can have featured a blunder like the one that a certain Swazi-English actor committed on Thursday’s opening show. Simon De La Rue worries that a trained actor has ‘been reduced to the status of a bum’.

From Krakow to Guernsey via the Isle of Wight is one journey, from anti-Catholic to Catholic Dean via Buddhism is another. Simon De La Rue requested an audience with the man who has undertaken both.