Victoria Coren Mitchell's honest verdict on 'childish' Celebrity Traitors

Only Connect presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell has described the BBC's recent huge hit Celebrity Traitors as "childish". Reflecting on the final which took place on Thursday November 6 she said: "It's a tremendously childish programme, broadcast after the watershed with haute couture and swearing. So it isn't for children. It's for adults who wish they were children. Which is, if you ask me, all adults with any sense."

She continued: "It's based on a famous pre-existing game, which I've played for years but, like poker in 2003, has gone mainstream overnight. Now everybody's hosting a home game! Come Christmas, it'll be more popular than tinsel!" The star claimed thanks to her role as a games player and well known quiz mistress people are constantly asking her how to play the gamer at home. To that end she said you can recreate the hugely popular show using just a pen and a piece of paper.

Writing in her column in The Telegraph she then proceeded to explain how to play saying you need a group of "at least nine people".

However she issued a warning based on what had happened on the celebrity version of the show.

"There was awful, visible tension - and these are people playing on television for a fee," she said.

"Imagine what happens when they're NOT motivated to pretend they're easy-going! So my last piece of advice is: do not play this game if it matters whether people remain friends. Or, indeed, married."

The final of Celebrity Traitors proved a huge hit with an average audience of 11.1million viewers, with a peak of 12million, the BBC confirmed. The broadcaster stated that it was the biggest overnight audience since the episode of Gavin and Stacey on Christmas Day last year.

Comedian and television host Alan Carr, 49, managed to outwit his fellow contestants to claim victory, and he also landed the prize of £87,500, which will go to a charity of his choice.

Alan, who was appointed as a Traitor early in the competition, triumphed in the tense final episode of the BBC reality series.

The Chatty Man host beat fellow finalists Cat Burns, Joe Marler, Nick Mohammed, and David Olusoga after weeks of strategic gameplay, alliances, and betrayals filmed at Ardross Castle.