It was inevitable that during the course of The Celebrity Traitors<\/a>, the biggest show on TV, there would be certain contestants<\/a> who would dominate both the roundtable discussions inside the Scottish castle, and the headlines out here in the real world. Jonathan Ross<\/a>, Alan Carr, Celia Imrie, Kate Garraway \u2013 a lot of screen time and column inches have been dedicated to these players. But one man who has not been front and centre, and instead left to be consumed by the garish wallpaper, is 55-year-old historian David Olusoga<\/a>.<\/p>\n This might be because, on the face of it, Olusoga does not make for thrilling, spiky reality TV. With his gentle nature, small smiles and soothing timbre, he seems more suited to a meditative podcast or, indeed, BBC programmes about the history of art (Civilisations) or residential buildings (A House Through Time).<\/p>\n Olusoga, a Faithful, hasn\u2019t had the most eventful time on the show: he hasn\u2019t been as vocal as the other contestants in hunting down the Traitors, and while he has come under suspicion \u2013 he narrowly avoided banishment in a face-off against actor Mark Bonnar \u2013 he has largely managed to shake that off.<\/p>\n That said, when all the celebrities got together for a candle-lit dinner in last week\u2019s penultimate episode, Olusoga earnestly told his fellow contestants: \u201cThe thing I really didn\u2019t expect from this series was the idea I\u2019d be changed by it. But I do feel changed by it, and that\u2019s a real surprise.\u201d This does make you wonder whether he has actually been having some meaningful and impactful moments throughout the game, which just haven\u2019t made it into the final edit.<\/p>\n One exchange that did make it into the edit, though, is that awkward locking of horns between Olusoga and Garraway, which came later in the eighth episode. As Olusoga called out Garraway for pointing the finger at him, it became so tense that fellow celebrities Joe Marler and Cat Burns were left visibly wincing. Olusoga might have been playing it safe for the majority of the competition, but it seems the claws are out now.<\/p>\n His game play overall has been very thoughtful and considered \u2013 but perhaps to his detriment. As we know, the Faithfuls have a habit of overthinking things and losing the scent, and Olusoga is definitely prone to this \u2013 mid-series, he got very stuck on the theory of Nick Mohammed being a Traitor because of how the actor helped sabotage the chess game. But as we know, Mohammed is one of the loveliest Faithfuls to have ever graced the Highlands.<\/p>\n David Olusoga on ‘The Celebrity Traitors’ (BBC)<\/p>\n Could Olusoga be overthinking things because of his years of experience in TV? It\u2019s possible. Before he entered the competition, he told The Observer: \u201cOf course, when I watch these programmes, I\u2019m thinking: \u2018Well, what would I do as a producer?\u2019 And that\u2019s just not going to get me anywhere. So I\u2019ve got to stop. I\u2019ve got to unlearn thinking that way.\u201d<\/p>\n As for how Olusoga will fare in final, it remains to be seen. But perhaps he can use his knowledge of history, of past conflicts and espionage, to sniff out remaining Traitors Carr and Burns once and for all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was inevitable that during the course of The Celebrity Traitors, the biggest show on TV, there would be certain contestants who would dominate both the roundtable discussions inside the Scottish castle, and the headlines out here in the real world. 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