Kate Garraway breaks her silence after exit from Celebrity Traitors

Kate Garraway has broken her silence following her banishment from Celebrity Traitors - after fans branded her 'hopeless' at the murder mystery game.

The journalist, 58, was the final star to be booted from the castle during the banishing after she was frequently deemed 'useless' throughout the series. 

Keen to catch one more Traitor before the final, discussions between the contestants got heated with David Olusoga and Kate exchanging blows before the majority voted for her.

After the episode aired Kate shared a clip of her speaking on the Uncloaked podcast as she said: 'Personally, I just felt genuinely lucky to be involved. Because, you know, it's the first one.

'There's been so much chat about it, and I never thought that I'd be included, so I was just like a wide-eyed kid in a candy shop for at least three days.

'It was more fun than I expected. It was more involving than I expected.

'It kind of gets in your head, and before you know it, you're going through everything and over analysing.

'Everything was bigger and better than I expected.'

The Celebrity Traitors' five finalists were revealed after the action-packed penultimate episode which saw a murder in plain sight and a final roundtable slanging match.

After Celia Imrie's tragic murder at the beginning of the episode, it was Kate who was the final star to be booted out after a head to head with David at the round table. 

Kate noted that David had faced accusations of being a Traitor before but they had since 'evaporated'.

David replied: 'It did. The person who was most insistent on trying to to explore it at the next table was you.'

'Only because I was trying to bring something useful to the table. It's my job. I feel like,' Kate said before David tried to interrupt.

She chastised him: 'I'm just going to finish. I was just the only one that was brave enough to raise it.'

'It feels like there's an implication behind when you state a fact. Sometimes, David, I feel like you're then implying something, and it's only you, and then you allow everybody to then look back at me and think, why did she do that?'

He defiantly told her: 'Well, that's exactly what I'm doing.' Before patronisingly adding: 'That's what we are supposed to be doing. We're stating a fact because that's how you have conversations. That's exactly what I'm doing.'

Claudia then brought discussions to a close and asked them to vote.

While Nick Mohammad voted for Cat Burns, David and Cat went for Kate and Alan and Kate opted for David.

Joe Marler had the deciding vote and he went for Kate sending her home as fans rejoiced on social media. 

During her exit speech, she revealed herself to be a faithful telling them: 'I've had a lot of years of being very serious, very sad, and you've all allowed me to play the most amazing game, but also you've allowed me to play and be silly and have fun.'

'Every single one of you I'm going to take away a new idea and the start of a new kind of life, really.

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'So thank you very much for all of that. Thank you genuinely. I have and always have been totally myself, a faithful.'

Taking to X fans rejoiced that Kate's game had finally come to an end as they penned: 'Kate is gone at last'; 'The scapegoat is gone!!!!'; 'Finally Kate is gone'; ' 

'Kate entirely brought this on herself by bringing up her own name all day'; 'Hot take: Kate should've been the first to go but I’m happy she stayed this long obvi'. 

Others congratulated her as they added: 'Honestly have no idea how Kate made it this far but we love you diva'.

'Considering Kate was suspected of being a Traitor from almost day 1 and has seemingly been completely clueless throughout its a miracle she’s lasted this long. Well done!'.

As Cat, Alan, Joe, Nick and David relaxed in the castle after the tense discussions, they were then ushered out to the fire pit.

Claudia told them they were the final five finalists and nobody would be getting murdered.

She then asked them to all individually tell the group that 'I am a faithful'.

Traitor Alan immediately burst out laughing as he tried to repeat the words, which aroused suspicion.

Joe said: 'It's just another confirmation of what I'm thinking already about Alan. He can't even look us in the eyes and say I'm a faithful. If that's not a red flag, I don't know what is.'

The former rugby star also correctly fingered Cat as being a Traitor.

Speaking to the camera he said: 'My plan involves getting really close to Alan and Cat so they keep me in the game, and then I can try and pull the rug from under their feet at the last minute. Sorry, traitors, I'm coming for you.'

Viewers will find out if Joe can pull off his audacious plan during next Thursday's Celebrity Traitors final.