James Acaster told Jerry Hall he 'could be' a Traitor in confrontation that was cut from TV

James Acaster has revealed that at one point during Celebrity Traitors he was directly accused of being a Traitor by Jerry Hall, but the moment never made it to TV.

Fans of the show will know that the comedian left the show in dramatic fashion, admitting he was a Traitor during a roundtable discussion where he was under the microscope.

One minute he was gliding through the game without suspicion and the next he was confessing to everything and voted off, or so it seemed to viewers at home.

Of course we're only watching an edited version of what really happened so there's a lot we don't get to see, and on today's (2 November) episode of Alan Carr's Life's A Beach Podcast it turned out that Acaster had been directly accused before, and he hadn't denied being a Traitor.

He told Alan, who famously won the first series of Celebrity Traitors despite not being able to say he was a Faithful without bursting into laughter: "Jerry Hall went right up to me face to face, this close, accused me of being a Traitor."

James Acaster never wanted to be a Traitor, and he made it clear he was going to be as honest as possible despite his role (BBC)

His response wasn't to admit to it, but sticking with his gameplan of not directly telling lies his reply was to tell her 'I think it might be me as well, Jerry'.

It's certainly more subtle than Richard E Grant directly saying he was a Traitor and doubling down when asked about it.

"She went, 'You're very sneaky'. I was like, 'I am sneaky, and it could be me'. And then she was like, 'Mmm', and then went away," Acaster said of how the rest of the moment played out.

If you're wondering which episode this moment came in the answer is none of them, as the accusation and his response didn't get shown despite Acaster feeling certain they'd include it.

"I was like, 'well, that's surely that's going in the edit'," he told Carr on the podcast, and said that he was a lot more involved in the game than viewers might have expected.

The comedian went on to explain that he 'said a lot more around that round table than the edit would suggest', and if you're wondering why we didn't see much of it it probably has something to do with the role he got in the game but didn't really want.

He said: "Most of the time, they want to keep how the Traitors vote as a surprise. They don't want to be like there's hints that I might go one way or the other.

"So a lot of the time what I said at the roundtable is cut out."

Something else they always cut out of the roundtable discussions is playing a version of 'The Hanging Tree' while they all have serious faces to build up some tension.

He also discussed with Carr the amount of downtime they'd get once filming at Ardross Castle was concluded, saying he'd get maybe '20 minutes' of walking on the beach before he was back in the car and returned to the hotel where he'd do jigsaw puzzles in his bedroom.

Jerry Hall directly asked James Acaster if he was a Traitor and he said he might be, not that we ever got to see that moment (BBC)

They don't really let the celebrities too far off the leash, and Carr said there'd been a hiccup during the first series of Celebrity Traitors where Joe Wilkinson proved to be a surprisingly fast runner and got away from the researcher meant to keep an eye on him

"I don't think the researcher with Joe Wilkinson realised how fast he could run. He ran off and it was code red: we've lost Joe Wilkinson! We've lost Joe Wilkinson!'," Carr recounted.

Meanwhile, he's spoken before about the moment of Celebrity Traitors he liked least, and it was being buried alive in a coffin for one of the challenges.

Acaster said it had been his 'worst fear' and that he respected Jerry Hall for deciding not to do it.

In hindsight he reckoned he should have decided he wasn't going in the coffin and said the words to get him and Bella Ramsey out of there.