BAFTA TV Awards: The Traitors' Harry gives surprising tactical advice to new contestants

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13 May 2024, 08:32

With a third season of The Traitors on the cards, a couple of the previous contestants have shared some words of advice with future participants. 

Applications for the next series of the hit BBC show have now closed, and the bad boys of series two have given some advice to anyone lucky enough to be entering the Scottish castle, while speaking with virginradio.co.uk and other press at the BAFTA TV Awards 2024.

Harry Clark famously won series two after duping Mollie into believing he was a Faithful. Despite Mollie’s blinkered friendship with Harry resulting in her and Jaz leaving empty-handed in a tense finale, the champion reckons that “trusting someone” is a good tactic.

Speaking from the BAFTAs’ red carpet at London’s Royal Festival Hall yesterday (12th May), Traitor Harry said: “I've always said this, which is absolutely mental, and everyone says, 'you're an idiot', but my best advice is you have to go in there and trust someone. And obviously, the whole game is about not being able to trust anyone, but you need that person there on your team.” 

He explained: “If you go in as a solo ranger, and you've got theories or you've got things you want to bring to the table, you've got no one to back you or support you. No one's gonna go with you and jump on your bandwagon that you need to create. And then also works vice versa if someone's coming at you and wants you to be gone. If you've got no-one to stand up and support you and say how they believe in you. You're done. 

“You need to go in there with open arms, play as yourself and be an open book. Don't hide anything. But then also find a person or two that you can trust.”

Paul Gorton - who was very popular before being caught as a Traitor - chipped in and said: “You need to kind of befriend everybody… and have people stick up for you and then fight your battles for you. Which we did. Sometimes we were called out. We wouldn't even respond, someone else would jump in.”

Harry added: “ And then that takes the attention off yourself and you're like 'I didn't even say anything' and it goes on straight to someone else.”

Elsewhere on the sunny red carpet, members of the cast of Slow Horses have admitted they were never expecting the show to be the huge phenomenon which it has become. Read more here.

Meanwhile, The Sixth Commandment’s Eanna Hardwicke opened up about working with “the astonishing” Timothy Spall.

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