Former England rugby player Joe Marler has revealed he thought he would have to pay to take part in The Celebrity Traitors.

The 35-year-old reached the final of the BBC reality gameshow earlier this year where he was ousted by comedian Nick Mohammed, 45, after he wrongly suspected he was a traitor, having initially formed a friendship and pact with the former Harlequins player to defeat the traitors.

Speaking on Waitrose’s Dish podcast with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett, Marler said: “It was bonkers. I was a big fan beforehand and then I … went for a booking meeting, or coffee, whatever, and I was like, ‘how much is it going to cost me then?’, and they were like, ‘what do you mean?’.

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