It’s been an eventful few years for Harry Clark, with the Traitors star quitting his army job after winning the BBC show’s second series. However, the 24-year-old has admitted that despite bagging almost £100,000 in prize money, he felt “lost” after emerging as the Traitors’ champion.
Clark became the first Traitor to win the reality competition in 2024, in a sensational finale that saw him blindside his Faithful friend Mollie Pearce, and he has since competed on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, appeared on BBC Two’s Pilgrimage and hosts upcoming documentary, Harry Goes To Rome, in which the young Catholic attempts to meet Pope Leo XIV.
Opening up about how his life has changed since winning the show, Clark admitted that he initially struggled with the lack of routine – having quit his engineer job in the army after six years.
“The first months were a struggle that people didn’t really see because I was lost,” he told The Independent.
“The army was all I ever knew since I was 16 so even now it feels like I’m going to go back next week. Having that worry of, ‘Am I going to be working next week?’ is the scariest thing in the world.
“That was the scariest part and that was a change but no one around me has changed, no one treats me any differently, the love that people have for me and the love that I’ve still got for them has got, if anything, stronger.”
Clark – who now focuses on taking up TV and media opportunities – added that he’s still in a relationship with girlfriend Anna Maynard, who he met before The Traitors, and still lives with his family in Slough.
“I could get invited somewhere crazy like the Baftas for example, but then I get a taxi home back to my council house in Slough and I’m just Harry again who has to fight his brothers and sisters for the toilet and then sit on the PlayStation with my mates. That hasn’t changed at all.”
Clark added that he also had some help after winning The Traitors from ex footballer Gary Neville, who offered to set him up with a manager.
“That was mental,” he said. This is why I say I keep getting lucky through life, but I put it down to my faith because I just try and be the best version of myself and I just pray for a clear mind and God worked through me.”
While appearing on BBC Breakfast shortly afterThe Traitors, Clark met ex-Manchester United player Gary Neville in the green room and the pair exchanged numbers.
“Me and my dad are massive Chelsea fans so every time we heard Gary Neville, we went, ‘Get this geezer off our TV.’ He was lovely,” Clark said.
“He told me that he was just worried that I’d be taken advantage of in the sense of my contract so he put his number in my phone and I took him up on his offer.
“For the next two weeks he went back and forth, took control of my contract that was sent through my management and he never asked for a penny. All he asked for was a birthday message for his daughter’s 14th birthday and that was it. It’s just mad that I’m in the position I am now because of that.”
As for whether they’re still in touch, Clark added: “Sometimes I’ll message him about how badly Manchester United are doing!”
The reality star, who is Catholic, reconnects with his faith in his new BBC One documentary – which follows him as he heads on his own spiritual quest to meet Pope Leo XIV.
While Clark has been religious since childhood, he revealed that his faith was “tested” while in the army.
“I like suffered massively in the army with my mental health, and I felt like I’d used up all my resources,” he said. “It wasn’t until I went to my mum and said that, and she was like, ‘What's the one thing you know how to do?’ She just told me to pray.”
He added that his faith “took a backseat” after winning The Traitors . “I was still a Catholic and I still believed in God but it just took a backseat because life was crazy.”
He said that going on Pilgrimage last year was “the cloth that wiped the lens”. Clark continued that it became clear that he was “in the right place”, adding: “I am who I am because of my faith.”
Harry Clark Goes To Home airs on Thursday 2 April at 10: 40pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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