‘The Traitors’ Host Alan Cumming Reveals How Kate Chastain Is A ‘Diva’ On The Show (Exclusive)

Alan Cumming, 57, is pumped up for Peacock’s caller world series The Traitors, which premieres January 11. The Scottish histrion hosts the strategy-focused show, which features 10 world stars from shows like Survivor, Big Brother, and Real Housewives, and 10 mundane people, who are either Traitors oregon Faithfuls. The 3 Traitors secretly “kill” idiosyncratic each episode, portion the Faithfuls person to fig retired who the Traitors are to triumph the expansive prize. Alan told HollywoodLife in an EXCLUSIVE interview that Below Deck alum Kate Chastain, 40, did not disappoint successful her show connected the show.

“I deliberation Kate Chastain brought her A game,” Alan told us. “But it wasn’t that she was a bully contestant,” the Spy Kids star noted. “I didn’t recognize however overmuch of her quality is of being a diva. She surely brought that.”

Alan continued, “She would accidental things like, ‘I’m dying to beryllium killed, oregon to beryllium banished, but I won’t get my wealth if I leave.’ Things similar that. I loved that astir her. I loved however honorable she was.”

Kate is competing against chap Bravo stars Brandi Glanville, Kyle Cooke, and Reza Farahan, among different celebrated faces. We asked Alan if helium thinks the world stars oregon the civilian contestants had the vantage successful manipulating and deceiving the others.

‘The Traitors’ formed (Photo: Euan Cherry/Peacock)

“You would benignant of deliberation it would beryllium easier for the world radical due to the fact that they’ve done akin [shows],” Alan explained. “They recognize the interior workings of it. A mates of them person been in Survivor and things which are overmuch much astir making allegiances and each that benignant of stuff. So they are astir apt utilized to reasoning successful that way.”

“But past again,” Alan added, “the existent radical were each determination due to the fact that they evidently liked world contention shows, and truthful they astir apt were very, precise adept successful them due to the fact that they’ve watched truthful many. I didn’t recognize that immoderate of the existent radical were immense fans of immoderate of the world people.”

Alan Cumming hosts ‘The Traitors’ (Photo: Euan Cherry/Peacock)

Alan besides told america that helium was truthful shocked by what went down on The Traitors, which filmed astatine a remote castle successful the Scottish Highlands. “I was perpetually surprised, amazing, horrified, astatine people’s behavior,” helium shared. “And conscionable however radical behave nether stress. And however bully radical were astatine lying. How atrocious radical were astatine lying.”

The Traitors cast besides features The Bachelor star Arie Luyendyk Jr., Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, and more. The contestants person to past the showdown betwixt the Traitors and the Faithfuls to triumph the $250,000 expansive prize. All 10 episodes drop connected January 11.

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