Team GB legend lands first TV job after retirement as he joins The Traitors

Tom Daley is successful last talks to prima successful the personage mentation of the BBC backstabbing crippled amusement The Traitors - and it volition beryllium his archetypal TV relation since retiring from diving

Retired diver Tom Daley is reportedly gearing up to dive into the world of world TV by joining The Traitors.

The 30-year-old, who has 5 Olympic medals nether his belt, is successful the last stages of discussions to articulation the personage variation of the BBC's notorious crippled show. This comes aft a two-year hiatus, pursuing his accomplishment of a lifelong imagination - winning golden astatine the Tokyo 2021 event.

Tom volition articulation big Claudia Winkleman and different personage participants astatine Ardross Castle successful the Scottish Highlands. Filming for the long-awaited bid is acceptable to footwear disconnected aboriginal adjacent year.

An insider said: “He’s ever been a apical people for world amusement bookers, but his squad knew helium had the prime of the crop. The archetypal bid of the personage variation blows I’m A Celebrity and Strictly retired the water, really, and Tom knows it volition beryllium hugely amusive to film.

“He’ll marque a large subordinate too, arsenic nary 1 would fishy misdeeds from specified a baby-faced lad," they told The Sun. It comes arsenic TV quiz prima Richard Osman has emerged arsenic a frontrunner to instrumentality portion successful Celebrity Traitors - if helium tin acceptable the deed bid into his hectic schedule.

Producers connected the spin-off of the deed BBC1 show, which films adjacent year, judge the erstwhile Pointless presenter has the cleanable skills to instrumentality portion - adjacent though helium claims to beryllium "terrible" astatine lying. One insider said: "Richard would beryllium a terrific signing. He reckons helium knows however to perpetrate the cleanable execution truthful could surely spot a Traitor from 100 paces oregon outsmart the others if helium needs to?

"He besides knows precisely however TV works. Anyone who's seen him connected Pointless oregon House of Games volition cognize however clever helium is. And his assertion that he's nary bully astatine lying seems unlikely."

Despite his intellect, Cambridge-educated Richard was turned down for MI6 during his pupil days. Last twelvemonth helium revealed: "You could not find a worse spy. I would person been terrible. I'm excessively tall, not agleam enough, and if I person a secret, I archer everybody."

Richard, 53, presently presents House of Games and Pointless Celebrities for the BBC. The dad-of-two besides presents a podcast, with writer Marina Hyde, called The Rest is Entertainment.

When asked connected the podcast if his crime-writing had taught him however to get distant with execution successful existent life, helium said it had, claiming the cardinal to occurrence laic successful lying to a jury. "The mode to perpetrate the cleanable execution is to presume you're going to get caught and to perpetrate a execution successful specified a mode that you volition get distant with it successful court," helium explained.

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