Garraway wasn’t the only one struggling with her acting skills.
Alan Carr – the standout sensation of episode one – was still finding it hard to keep a straight face.
As the first episode of the Celebrity Traitors drew to a close on Wednesday night, we were left waiting to find out which star would be murdered by Carr in plain sight.
Would he go through with it? Our hearts, collectively as a nation, were in our mouths.
But murder, he did. And not just any murder. He selected singer Paloma Faith, who by his own admission is one of his “best friends”.
The following morning at breakfast, as the rest of the players tried to work out what had happened, he was all over the place – scratching his head nervously, biting his fingers.
“It was a stretch for my acting ability, I don’t know how Meryl Streep does it,” he said.
And then we had Jonathan Ross – a traitor – vowing dramatically to avenge Faith. “It was massive graveside overacting,” said TV journalist Siobhan Synnot.
They may be celebrities, but even so they’re not immune from feeling the nerves – and that could explain their poor acting abilities, says Stafford.
You can see why “being in a game set around murder, betrayal and manipulation… would jangle your nerves,” she explained.
