Pilgrimage’s Harry Clark reveals the ‘real reason’ he won BBC hit The Traitors – and gives key advice to winning
HE took home the jackpot on The Traitors after tricking his co-stars that he was a faithful in the ultimate act of deception.
Now Harry Clark is keen to show he’s got a lot of faith, appearing on BBC Two‘s Pilgrimage alongside a group of soul-searching celebrities.
Harry, who rose to fame in 2024 on the BBC Three shows’ second series, will join the likes of Jeff Brazier and Helen Lederer in the new series of Pilgrimage, walking from Austria to Switzerland.
The practicing Catholic is keen to show himself in a different light to what viewers saw on The Traitors, hosted by Claudia Winkleman.
But that doesn’t mean that Harry will be a different person, as he insists he managed to win the show by being “completely himself”.
He said: “I’ll always be in debt to The Traitors because it catapulted me into a completely different life I never knew I could have.
“But the show didn’t change me at all – I was already devious. I didn’t have to do anything different for The Traitors.
“I never saw series one, so I turned up, and this is why I always say I think I won, because I went in there with such true intention.
“I turned up to be a Traitor to win £120,000 – I had a one in 22 chance and I thought they were good odds.
“On Pilgrimage, you will see me, and you will see why I won the show – because I was just open and honest about myself.
“I didn’t hide anything, I didn’t lie about anything, because as soon as someone finds out you’re lying about one thing, it’s ‘What else are they lying about?’
“Me? I was an open book the whole time. I just kept one little secret… which was I was a traitor, and I’m the one murdering everyone.
“Nobody needed to know that!”
Harry is keen to show off his faith on television, to showcase that young people on television can be “religious and cool”.
He added: “I like to think I’m quite a cool person, maybe to people who watch The Traitors especially – and I want to show you can be cool and faithful.
“Funnily enough, I was of course faithful on this show – you can have faith, and it’s not something you have to hide.”
It comes after it was revealed that Harry had turned down n a whopping £300k to star on Celebrity Big Brother twice, and a brief stint on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip with Traitors co-star Paul Gorton.
Pilgrimage returns to BBC Two on April 20 at 9pm