Alan Cumming Spills Details on Civilian Edition of ‘The Traitors’

On the (fashionable) heels of his announcement that a civilian edition of The Traitors will soon come to NBC, host Alan Cumming has elaborated on this new spin on Peacock’s hit reality competition. As Traitors “faithfuls” know, the Peacock series debuted with a cast of both celebrities and civilians but started casting only celeb contestants in Season 2. Now that Peacock edition is “on this trajectory of theatricality and madness” as Cumming said in a new interview with People. But NBC’s edition of The Traitors will reopen the competition to anyone, regardless of fame, and that represents sort of “a reboot” for the format, Cumming told the magazine. With the civilian edition, The Traitors is “calming down a little bit and starting again, which is exciting,” he said. Cumming also shared that he’s “really looking forward to” the higher stakes for the civilian edition. Celebrities, he explained, don…