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I'm loving Celebrity Traitors - but there is one huge thing driving me insane

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I am loving Celebrity Traitors. When the show was announced, I was intrigued to see how media-trained stars would cope with the tactics and betrayal of the game, as I was sure all of them would be constantly aware of how they were coming across on camera.

But from Celia Imrie farting in front of everyone to Tom Daley's fury at Kate Garraway's use of "flabbergasted", it is very clear that the celebs have thrown themselves into the game with both feet, and it has been incredible TV.

Traitors Alan Carr, Cat Burns and Jonathan Ross are all still trying desperately to remain hidden, but eyes are slowly turning to the latter, as the now exiled Clare Balding and Ruth Codd led the charge against him before their exits.

After watching Alan burst out laughing as the banished Clare revealed she was indeed faithful, I have been left with just one complaint about the show - how on earth has no one noticed his outrageously guilty behaviour? If someone doesn't bring it up in next week's episode, I will be even crosser than Mark Bonnar finding out he's kicked out a faithful.

Body language expert Chris Pardoe has backed me up, as he said of Alan's questionable body language last night: "Every pore, every gesture, every facial twitch is broadcasting his guilt. If body language were a fire alarm, Alan would be a five-alarm blaze."

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He added: "The evidence is damning. In episode one, Carr confessed on camera: "I feel sick. It's the worst secret ever, and it's just burning me.' By episode two, he'd graduated to winking at fellow Traitor Jonathan Ross immediately after murdering his best mate Paloma Faith. Ross's face said it all - the look of a man realising he's chained to a ticking time bomb."

Pardoe also called out some of Alan's other obvious signs he was a Traitor, including winking at Jonathan after he murdered Paloma, and his huge level of sweating whenever attention was drawn to him.

He added: "The wink was extraordinary. You've just committed a covert murder in plain sight, and you celebrate with a pantomime wink? Jonathan looked like he wanted to murder Alan himself."

Body language expert Judi James agreed, saying: "Alan is now no longer leaking out Traitor values, he is positively advertising them, suggesting total confidence combined with utter ruthlessness.

"When Claire announced she was a Faithful and left, it was Alan with his fingers over his mouth like a naughty schoolkid, screaming with delighted laughter rather than sitting in shock and grief or performing a total overkill ritual of frustrated anger like poor Mark, whose violent responses are putting his head on the block for the next banishment."

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I would just really like to see how Alan copes when the spotlight is put on him, as I'm sure he will crack under the smallest bit of pressure. I think the only reason he has managed to go under the radar for so long is that everyone likes him, and no one wants to be the bad guy to turn the screws first.

Whilst Alan has been amazingly good TV to watch, the competitive side of me can't help twitching at what a botched job the faithfuls are doing in uncovering people, and it is becoming increasingly difficult not to get frustrated. I want to reach into my TV screens and physically turn everyone's head towards Alan, so they can see his blatant guilt. Maybe his time will come soon, but I've got a feeling poor Jonathan is the one who has got something to worry about.

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