Clare Balding teases 'tense' Celebrity Traitors and promises 'it will be good telly'

This Morningwelcomed Clare Balding to the sofa on Thursday (11 September), with the TV favourite opening up about her latest projects.

Clare, known for fronting programmes on BBC Sport, joined Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on the ITV programme to discuss her debut novel in addition to her appearance on the celebrity edition of The Traitors.

Ben and Cat were keen to know more aboutthe upcoming series, which will launch on BBC One in October, and took the opportunity to try and get some spoilers out of Clare.

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"I'm absolutely fascinated to see how it comes out," Ben said of the show. "To see who is the Traitors and who is the Faithfuls." He then added: "The actual series is so emotional. Were there tears?"

"It will be really good telly. I can promise you that," Clare teased. "I can't talk about it anymore, Ben. I'm just going to say, it's good telly and it's coming in October."

Elsewhere in the interview, Clare revealed she enjoyed her experience on Celebrity Traitors as she got to know plenty of new faces while also seeing many celebrities who she knows well.

"Celia Imrie I know really quite well, and Charlotte Church. Tom Daley, I've known since he was about 12. Obviously, other people I know professionally," she told Cat and Ben.

Clare also added: "I really enjoyed meeting the younger ones, the ones I hadn't met before. So, Ruth Codd and Cat Burns, and Niko [Omilana], just people I wouldn't have come across in any other situation."

Clare appears on Celebrity Traitors alongside Alan Carr, Cat Burns, Celia Imrie, Charlotte Church, David Olusoga, Joe Marler, Joe Wilkinson, Jonathan Ross, Kate Garraway, Lucy Beaumont, Mark Bonnar, Nick Mohammed, Niko Omilana, Paloma Faith, Ruth Codd, Stephen Fry, Tameka Empson and Tom Daley.

The nine-part series, fronted by Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman, will see the celebrities compete against one another to win a cash prize of up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice.

Speaking about the spin-off series, host Claudia teased: "We’re incredibly lucky these brilliant people have said yes. I’d love to say we’ll take it easy on them and they’ll just wander round the castle and eat toast for a couple of weeks but that would be a lie."

This Morning airs on weekdays at 10am on ITV1. Celebrity Traitors is coming to BBC One and iPlayer in October 2025.