Before Alan Cumming was hosting a show called The Traitors, he was helping a Traveling Man get revenge on the people who were traitors to him. How cute was the 19-year-old in that 1984 episode?
Last week, we got to meet the new faithfuls and The Traitors during the three-episode premiere of Peacock.
The 21 contestants are: Carsten “Bergie” Bergersen (Love Island USA), Chris ‘C.T.’ Tamburello (The Challenge), Dan Gheesling (Big Brother), Deontay Wilder (FMR Boxing Heavyweight Champion), Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu (Love Island UK)Janelle Pierzina (Big Brother), Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio (The Challenge), John Bercow (FMR Speaker of the UK House of Commons), Kevin Kreider (Bling Empire), Larsa Pippen (The Real Housewives of Miami), Marcus Jordan (Fashion Entrepreneur), Maksim Chmerkovskiy (Dancing with the Stars), Mercedes “MJ” Javid (Shahs of Sunset), Parvati Shallow (Survivor), Peppermint (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Peter Weber (The Bachelor), Phaedra Parks (Married to Medicine), Sandra Diaz-Twine (Survivor), Shereé Whitfield (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Tamra Judge (The Real Housewives of Orange County), and Trishelle Cannatella (The Challenge)
During the first three episodes, we sadly got to say goodbye to Johnny Bananas, Peppermint, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, and Marcus Jordan via banishment or death.
What am I talking about? Basically, 21 people move into a Scottish mansion, and they are given a role. They are either chosen to be a traitor or faithful. If they are selected as a traitor, then they have to hide their identity from all of the faithfuls for the rest of the game.
In each episode, there will be a banishment round, where the contestants eliminate who they think is a traitor. But they are basically guessing. And they are going to guess incorrectly more than correctly.
After the banishment ceremony, the traitors choose to kill someone off. Last week, host Alan Cummings told the traitors they will have to murder someone in plain sight, and that task was given to Traitor Parvati.
When episode 3 ended, she was trying to find someone to drink from her poisonous cup. Tonight at 9p, we will find out who drank from the cup of death.
Will that murder lead to a traitor being banished? I can’t tell you! I can tell you to be prepared for some twists because the producers like to change things up. And that is what keeps this international phenomenon so exciting.
So tune in for an unforgettable funeral that will either leave the contestants with $20,000 more in the pot or with nothing added to it.
But I have said too much, and I don’t want a black rose…
One last thing. I started watching this series two weeks ago, so I was very late to the game.
After I binged the first US season in a day, I immediately did the same with Australia and The UK on Peacock. It is so good, I needed more. And I got it. Now, I am getting a slower fix with the second US season, which will be releasing one episode a week until the season finale. And then, when it is done, we will get the second UK season, which I have read is even better than the first one. And I am going to sound like a bad American, but The UK’s is by the best of the three.
Alan Cumming has been nearly naked in several productions on stage and in front of the camera. However, PETA got him to take it all off. Why? To promote being a vegan.
What better way to do it than to use an eggplant to cover up his cucumber? So that is what he did. And the eggplant had to struggle to do its job! And because of that, I am doing his last name!
If you want to go vegan like the actor and Mike Tyson, then PETA will tell you how to start.
Now that it looks like The Good Wife is ending this season and Cabaret is currently not on Broadway, Alan Cumming needs to find a new job. So he wrote a musical about the making of the Hover Dam and he is going to star in it.
Yesterday, when he was on Late Night with Seth Meyers, he debuted the show’s big number Dammed If I Do and Dammed If I Don’t. If that doesn’t win all of the Tonys next year than their voting committee is more screwed up than the Oscars’.
Seriously, isn’t that an award winning performance!
Alan Cumming is getting married. I’ve learned the X-Men star will wed his American boyfriend of two years, Grant Shaffer, this weekend. The civil ceremony will take place in London, Cumming’s rep exclusively tells me. Cumming recently told Attitude magazine he would have preferred getting hitched in the U.S. "I think if we could get married in America, we totally would have by now," he said. The two share an apartment in New York City. Most recently, Cumming starred in a revival of Bent in London’s West End. Shaffer is an illustrator who most recently worked on the critically acclaimed movie Little Children, starring Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson.
