The Traitors US host Alan Cumming shares savage plastic surgery suggestion for cast: ‘That would be my one wish for next time’-Rishma Dosani-Entertainment – Metro

Alan Cumming is already looking towards season two of the Traitors US, but wants to make one behind-the-scenes change to the program going forward.

The American version of the hugely popular series is heading to Peacock on January 12, with the theatre icon serving as host.

Unlike the UK competition, a string of celebrities – including Kate Chastain and Brandi Glanville – will be joining members of the public in the remote Scottish castle, battling it out for the $250,000 prize.

Ahead of the premiere, Alan spoke to Metro.co.uk about the upcoming episodes, and how he found getting a front row seat to the tense drama between the Traitors and the Faithful.

When asked if he had any celebrities in mind for a possible second season, he instead offered a totally different suggestion.

‘I didn’t really know many of the celebrities because I don’t really watch television in that way,’ he told us. ‘But I knew a couple, I recognized a couple.

Alan Cumming is serving as host of the Traitors US (Picture: Getty)

‘The thing I would say, if we do a season two, I would like the photographs that I am given of the celebrities at the start of the show – to learn who is who and to practice knowing their names – I would like those photographs to be post their plastic surgery. Because that was not the case this time around.

‘A couple of people, I was like “that’s not them!” Then I realized it was them, they just had some work done for the show.

‘So that would be my one wish for next time.’

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The star-studded cast caused chaos in the castle (Picture: Getty)

The hit game show follows a group of strangers who are secretly split into two groups, the Faithful and the Traitors – with the latter given then power to kill off their co-stars.

To avoid being murdered, and hopefully take home the jackpot, the Faithful have to work together to discover who the killers are, and who has been lying all along.

Alan revealed that there were points he found it ‘brutal’ to speak to the contestants when he knew the truth behind who the Traitors were.

However, he insisted that there were no points he subtly steered them in another direction.

‘They were all pretty good about it,’ he continued. ‘I was very cautious whenever I got near them.

‘The character I play – it’s me hosting it, but there’s obviously a character – and the character is very haughty, so that made it easier.

‘Quite a lot of people make quite bad decisions all the time on this show so I got used to it. The worst thing was holding information and knowing things, knowing who the Traitors were…

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‘Towards the end, it got really brutal when I’m talking to people and I know that they’re not going to have the outcome they think they’re going to have. That was really hard.

‘I wasn’t really allowed to speak to the contestants very much. Sometimes during the tasks, we would chat as we were huddling under a tent or something. But mostly I was kept away from them.

‘I’m not very good at keeping secrets so it’s probably a very wise thing.’

The Traitors US premieres on Peacock on January 12.

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