James Acaster reveals the Celebrity Traitors alcohol rules got even stricter this year

After his explosive time on the show, James Acaster has revealed what the alcohol rules were on this series of The Celebrity Traitors, and they got even stricter.  

In previous years, the normal civilian version had a one-drink limit, while the celebrities were allowed two drinks after the roundtable, before they all returned to their hotels. 

However, Acaster has revealed that this year, the celebrities were only really allowed one drink, and the producers were very strict about enforcing this rule.

Speaking on the Table Manners podcast this week, he said: “No [you can’t have a drink whenever you want]. You’re allowed two drinks maximum in the evening, but really it’s one.”

He said the official rules stated they were allowed two, but after the first drink, the producers would “kind of delay” the second one on purpose. You had to ask for your second wine or beer, and they rarely ever brought it.  

Sharing the reason for this strict limit, Acaster added: “If someone gets a bit loose-lipped and drunk, they might just go ‘Whatever, I’m a Traitor’ and tell everyone, so they want you all sober.”

That’s quite ironic, really, because not one but two Traitors revealed their identity this year, Acaster himself and Richard E Grant, without any alcohol involved. 

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“I did it at the roundtable, Richard did it at the beginning. No alcohol required,” James said while laughing. 

Some of the cast managed to sneakily get more, though. Maya Jama previously revealed that some of the celebs didn’t want any drinks as they wanted to focus on the game, so she and Joanne McNally would steal them. 

“‘Fun fact, about halfway through everyone stopped having their one drink a night so they could focus, so we sneakily drank theirs cling cling @joannemcnally x,” Maya wrote on Instagram.

“Most of our time together wasn’t included because we spoke about everything other than the game and hid in the toilets telling secrets.”

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