Niko Omilana has spoken about his time on Celebrity Traitors, providing insight into the intense process of filming the roundtable scenes.
Omilana, who recently went viral for his video in which he went undercover as a white man at the Unite the Kingdom Protest, was the first to be eliminated from the show.
This was not well received by fans online who suggested that Omilana was voted out by other celebrities for being a YouTuber, as opposed to a traditional celebrity.
Omilana has since broken his silence, revealing the unseen experience of The Traitors, giving us insight as to what it's like to be involved.
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Omilana took to his Instagram stories to address the fact he was the first celebrity to go, jokingly suggesting that he ‘couldn’t care less’ about being booted.
The YouTube star defended himself by claiming that this is the ‘worst group of Faithfuls ever’.
He said: “One thing I will say is; I believe this is the worst group of Faithfuls ever. Nice people, terrible Faithfuls. Truly.
“I knew I was finished when people were voting for me and people were saying, ‘I don’t even think it’s you, but I had to put a name down’.
“Then, I realised they were just vibesing it. People know that The Traitors go in there planting seeds but they’re not thinking about who's planting the seeds.”
Omilana went on to reveal the realities of what we don’t see on TV, adding: “The way in which they’re approaching the game is, ‘Oh, it’s Niko, you are a YouTuber, you are gone, you untrustworthy scum’.
“One thing which you guys didn’t see was, that roundtable is the most intense thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And, obviously, they have to cut it down for TV and make it shorter, but there were some people going crazy on me.”
This is not surprising, with a former The Traitors contestant having suggested that roundtables can take as long as three hours!
Ivan from season one said: “I don't wear a watch, and obviously you can’t have a phone, so I don't know.
“I remember someone saying one of the round tables lasted for three hours, not just the conversation, but the voting as well.
“It's hard to measure time because they're quite intense but they do that. You do get hours and hours together, which I think is really good. It means the game does play out naturally. Having said that, it is a live set.
"There are definitely moments as well when you’re sort of told, ‘Okay, the game's over, go away’, and everyone sits down somewhere else and is quiet for a bit.
"Mostly it's very authentic during that time. Things were portrayed as they happened.
“We were never asked to retake anything, and we were never put in a room and told to speak to people or anything like that. There was no direction, so I really want to make that clear."
Celebrity Traitors continues on BBC One and BBC iPlayer tonight (16 October), at 9pm.
Topics: Niko Omilana, The Traitors, YouTube, Instagram, TV and Film, TV
Michael Slavin