Island Life

With a predictable banishment on Thursday, Celebrity Traitors lost its most chaotic presence but quickly restored itself to chaos anyway. Simon De La Rue continues to be along for the ride

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’.