James Acaster says he ‘doesn’t care’ what people think about his Celebrity Traitors exit

James Acaster has addressed the reaction to his rather unforgettable stint on The Celebrity Traitors, and apparently, he couldn’t care less what anyone has to say about it.

The comedian made headlines during the second series of the BBC show after pulling off one of the most unexpected moments in Traitors history. During the semi-final roundtable, with suspicion mounting over the murder of Ross Kemp, Acaster decided to out himself before the contestants had even finished voting.

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“I’m, reluctantly, a traitor,” he announced, in a move that nobody quite saw coming. No Traitor had ever voluntarily revealed their identity at the roundtable before being banished, making his decision a first for the show. The extraordinary moment even brought filming to a temporary halt.

While the rest of us have been dissecting his dramatic exit, Acaster has been doing a pretty good job of avoiding the conversation altogether. He’s revealed that he hasn’t seen the public reaction, having deliberately stayed away from social media and press coverage since the episodes aired.

Speaking to Jessie and Lennie Ware on the Table Manners podcast, the comedian explained that he has no intention of looking himself up online.

“I’m not on social media, and I genuinely don’t look at it.

“And it was a show as big as Traitors, I’m too scared to Google myself or look at the press. So I genuinely haven’t seen any of it.”

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Honestly, probably a sensible decision after that roundtable.

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Acaster also acknowledged that he knew his decision to reveal himself would get people talking, particularly because it was something that had never happened on the programme before.

“After it happened, you go, ‘Well, that’s never happened on the show before. So there’s going to be every opinion under the sun about that.'”

Rather than worrying about whether people would approve of his decision, however, he decided to stand by it.

“Part of me was just like, stand by it, I don’t care, because you obviously get to that point as well, where you know that the public will have every opinion about it, and you can’t worry about the people who don’t like whatever it is that you’ve done.”

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