Alan Carr has admitted his friendship with Paloma Faith is on shaky ground as she feels “let down” by him on Celebrity Traitors.
The comedian, 49, “murdered” his long-time friend Faith on the BBC reality show, making her the first celebrity to leave the competition.
He has now broken his silence on the apparent tension between him and the pregnant singer, 44, admitting she’s “not happy” with him.
“I’m killing people willy nilly - I've got a real taste for it,” Carr said on his Life’s A Beach podcast with DJ Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim.
When Cook pointed out, “Aren't you mates with Paloma?” Carr replied, “Well, I was...”
He went on: “I killed Paloma Faith. She’s not happy about it. There’s been a few little TikToky things where she says I’ve let her down because I killed her in plain sight.”
The Chatty Man star insisted: “I was desperate and she said, ‘If you were a real friend, you wouldn’t have killed me.’ But I said, ‘I’m the Traitor! The show’s called The Traitors!’
“It’s like going on Naked Attraction and being told, what, I have to take my knickers off? You know, it does what it says on the tin. I can’t help it!”
Carr, who is one of three Traitors alongside Jonathan Ross and Cat Burns, “murdered” Faith by touching her face with the pollen of a fake poisoned lily.
The Interior Design Masters host pulled off the task by pretending Faith had something on her face and he was helping her get it off. She “died” after climbing into her own coffin during a funeral procession the next day.
Explaining his decision to “kill” Faith, Carr said: “I can’t start stroking Stephen Fry’s face and Celia Imrie’s - not at my age! I look creepy as it is!”
He added that he is desperate to make amends with Faith.
“I’m going to take her for dinner,” he said. “I love her. I’m such a big fan of her and she’s the best - but no one wants to be murdered first on a show. I panicked.”
Earlier this month, Faith revealed she felt “humiliated and embarrassed” by her early exit and joked that her daughter doesn’t like Carr anymore.
“I psyched myself up,” she said on The One Show. “I brought six suitcases of clothes! I was ready for a fashion parade!”
Faith shared her daughter’s reaction to Carr’s murder, saying: “My four-year-old turned to me this morning and said, ‘Mama, I don’t like Alan anymore, he can’t come to our house.’”
The Only Love Can Hurt Like This singer also slammed Carr’s betrayal on the aftershow, The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked.
“I don’t think it was very nice,” she said.
“If the shoe was on the other foot, I would not have touched Alan’s face. Categorically, he had a choice – maybe it was the easiest option, but it was the choice he made and I don’t think it was very nice.”
