Celebrity Traitors winner Bash had 'secret belief' he'd make final after being told by witch

In an outcome that most of us didn’t quite see coming, Sebastian ‘Bash’ Croft and Romesh Ranganathan won The Celebrity Traitors on Friday (30 October).

That came after an intense end game with King Kenny and James Blunt following Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Maya Jama’s exit at the final round table.

The final Traitor standing, Kenny, really just lost it at the final hurdle when he voted to end the game. Then, poor James Blunt chose to have another round of voting which pretty much meant he evicted himself from the game as Romesh and Bash stuck together.

But while many of us viewers were surprised to see the actor make it so long (particularly after the Traitors kept considering murdering him), he’d had the trusty prediction from a 'witch' to rely on.

Yep, the Heartstopper star told LADbible that a witch had pretty much confirmed he’d make it to The Celebrity Traitors final.

“I know people aren't that witchy and some people are like, ‘sure, you're in a bad mood because your rising sun is in asparagus, blah, blah, blah’,” Bash tells us.

“But the truth is, I think if you are someone who has witchy tendencies or you're even curious or open, that kind of stuff can be so helpful.”

Apparently, when the 24-year-old spoke with the witch she predicted: “You have an acting job coming up but you're not acting.”

To which he confirmed: “Well there is this thing that's coming up I'm kind of really nervous about it because I don't know how it's going to go.”

Explaining the situation to this witch without quite revealing that it was in fact The Celebrity Traitors: “It's kind of like a game show and you have to kind of try and survive.”

Bash says the witch then asked him when the last filming day was.

The Faithfuls won The Celebrity Traitors (BBC)

“When I told her she asked the spirits and she said ‘you're still going to be there at the end’, and I feel like even if you don't believe in that stuff the fact that I'd been told that was like this small hidden secret belief that I had that genuinely meant I was more relaxed,” he explains.

“I wasn't so worried about going early on because I was like ‘I'm going to be here at the end’ and I think sometimes that like little cuckoo crazy part of my brain that believes in that stuff actually is really helpful because you go like ‘yeah this is going to go well’.”

Bash therefore reckons he stressed ‘less’ during the game because he felt like he’d ‘already achieved it’.

“Then it ends up going better so yeah I’m into being witchy all day every day and she was right,” he adds.

“She's also predicted other stuff in my friends and family's lives, like big stuff.”

Bash also says while he originally wanted to be a Traitor, he’s glad he was picked ass a Faithful.

“I think as an experience it's actually way more fun to play as a faithful because you're so in the dark and you're trying to figure stuff out and you also don't feel that responsible for when people go,” he says.

“I think I could have, and honestly, I would have loved to try being a traitor, but upon reflection I'm very glad I wasn't.”