Traitors winner Harry Clark opens up on sleep deprivation whilst filming Claudia Winkleman show

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The Traitors winner Harry Clark has said he suffered sleep deprivation due to the intense schedule on the show.The 23-year-old took the £95,150 prize pot during the dramatic final of the BBC reality show after he deceived his friend Mollie Pearce into thinking he was a fellow faithful, when in reality he was a traitor.Clark played as a traitor throughout the whole second series after putting in a request to host Claudia Winkleman to be selected for the role.Speaking on the Tom Dean Medal Machine podcast, he said: “At the start of The Traitors, I would remind myself why I’m here every three or four days.“By the end, I was reminding myself every five minutes why I’m here because it got so hard.

Because we would never sleep.”He the contestants could be filming for 16 to 18 hours a day with the whole cast before everyone went to bed.It was only when the faithful contestants were back in their rooms that the traitors would go back out to the tower where they decided who would be “murdered” that night.“So you just had to pretend you’re as tired as everyone else, but not more tired,” he said.“And that’s why you see people deteriorate, because after a couple of weeks… it takes its toll not getting a proper night’s sleep.”He added that the show “100%” looked after the contestants, adding: “It’s just a game, isn’t it.

So that’s part and parcel of the game.”The former British Army engineer also revealed that he chose not to watch the first series as he wanted to go into the show with no expectations or trying to copy a previous game plan.He said his plan was to be himself and not overthink things before they happened as he felt that could cause a contestant to “go into a spiral”.Winkleman has fronted two series of the game show