Nick Mohammed: Phone calls with children monitored during Celebrity Traitors

Nick Mohammed has revealed he was allowed only one call with his children each day while filming Celebrity Traitors – and a producer was always listening in.

The Ted Lasso actor, 46, reached the final of the 2025 series of the popular BBC show, beaten at the end by traitor Alan Carr.

Mohammed, who has two sons, Finn and Arthur, and daughter Annie with his wife Becka, said the rules were so strict during filming that every call home to his family had to be monitored.

He told the Table Manners podcast: “I was allowed once a day to FaceTime them (his children), but only with the producers listening into the phone calls.

“Because if anything gets out, the game was over, really.

“So that was the most difficult thing, and not being able to tell them exactly when I would be going because I didn’t know – I could be back in 48 hours, I could be gone in three weeks, which turned out I was.”

Mohammed also said participants are placed in a “holding area” before they leave the castle each evening.

He said: “You didn’t get that much downtime, really. It looks in the programme like you get in those cars and go off, but it’s a more elaborate way out of the castle because they don’t want you to see who’s going in what direction.

“You’re actually in a holding area and dismissed at random, so you have no way of knowing whether someone’s been dismissed early and what that might mean.”

The celebrity cast has kept in touch and held a reunion since filming.

The comedian said proceedings were so strict during filming that even calls home to his family had to be monitored (Ian West/PA)

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Mohammed said: “Jonathan (Ross) organised a reunion, which I sadly couldn’t make.

“We have a WhatsApp group, which is great.

“I’ve seen Joe Marler a fair bit, I’ve seen Claudia (Winkleman), and there are other people I’ve seen too.”

Mohammed’s Ted Lasso co-star Hannah Waddingham revealed she had turned down an offer to appear on the same series.

Speaking on The Jennifer Hudson Show this week, she said: “I was asked to be on the first Celebrity Traitors in the UK.

“My great buddy Nick Mohammed from Ted Lasso is on it and I nearly did because I knew he was going to be on it, but I’m a great big scaredy cat.

“This whole thing with the hoods and burying people alive – I don’t care whether there’s a crew there or not – hell no. No. No.

“I’m going to watch at home with a nice red wine and some crisps.”

Hosted by Winkleman, The Celebrity Traitors features 21 famous contestants who must seek out the traitors among them, who “kill off” players in the middle of the night.

The first series of the celebrity spin-off debuted last autumn and became a ratings winner for the broadcaster, with its nail-biting finale hitting a peak of 15.4 million viewers – the biggest TV audience of 2025.