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Celebrity Traitors star Kate Garraway has admitted that she ‘didn’t take it personally’ after having a tense exchange with a co-star on the BBC programme. The Good Morning Britain presenter was voted off the Claudia Winkelman series on Thursday night (October 30) following a tense exchange on the dance-floor. Moments before she r eceived the most votes , Kate was involved in a heated back and forth with historian David Olusoga after she said his claims about her potentially being a traitor had ‘evaporated’. David replied: “It did. The person who was most insistent on trying 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.” Interrupting him, Kate stated: “'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?” David hit back: “Well, that's exactly what I'm doing. 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.” Hours after banishment aired, Kate was back on Good Morning Britain on Friday (October 31) where she was asked by Ranvir Singh and Adil Ray about what the atmosphere was like in the castle. “I didn’t take it personally as I’ve lived genuine life and death,” she said. "At the end of the day this is a game and you know you’re not really going to be murdered and you might not make it into breakfast, but life will go on, so I didn’t take any of it personally. “It’s an incredible game you’re completely sucked into, no phones, no contact, you know with the outside world so you’re absolutely in this intensity. “I think it’s very easy to take it personally because you feel really close, really quickly to people in that environment. I was utterly bereft when Paloma departed earlier because I loved her." Kate’s fellow faithfuls had suspected her of being a traitor since the opening episodes of the Claudia Winkleman series , with Tom Daley going viral for being suspicious of her for using the word ‘flabbergasted’. “I was absolutely flabbergasted that they were suspicious of me," she said. "I must be the least suspicious person in the world. When you’re in there it’s such a different experience from watching it, because as a viewer you know everything. “So I’ve been as flabbergasted as anyone else, you don’t see what people are saying about you, so it’s been brilliant." Meanwhile, Kate also revealed her daughter, Darcy, has been watching the series at university parties and was shocked to see her mum banished. “She rang me up [for] the very first round table and me and Niko were in balance. Niko was absolutely her favourite contestant so she rang me up and said ‘I don’t know what to wish for’... “Every round table I was always under attack, I was always under suspicion, so I’m amazed I lasted as long as I did. I had a bit of fight in me,” she said. Asked by Adil about whether she enjoyed her time in the show, Kate said: “I think those that are traitors probably had a very tough time because you’re basically with a group of incredible people and you’re having to lie, deceive and murder them which is not what most of us choose every day. “For me, I was just completely myself all the way through and I thought that would be easier. I thought ‘I want to be a faithful’ because the only thing you don’t have to worry about is you don’t have to lie or deceive. I was absolutely flabbergasted that they were suspicious of me. I must be the least suspicious person in the world.” Looking ahead to next week’s season finale, Kate is predicting traitor Alan Carr to take the crown in spite of his co-stars suspicions She explained: “I genuinely don’t know. I’d love it to be a faithful, I think Nick is brilliant, I think Joe (Marler) is coming through brilliantly. I just have a sneaky feeling it’s going to be a traitor and I think it’s going to be Alan, I just think he’s a megastar.”
