The Traitors winner Harry Clark announces debut memoir focused on his faith
The 24-year-old won the second series of the hit BBC show, which sees a group of "faithfuls" attempt to banish the "traitors", who murder during the night-time, in order to win a prize pot of up to £120,000.
The Traitors winner Harry Clark
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The Traitors winner Harry Clark has announced the release of his debut memoir which will document his life so far and the connection he feels to God.
The 24-year-old won the second series of the hit BBC show, which sees a group of "faithfuls" attempt to banish the "traitors", who murder during the night-time, in order to win a prize pot of up to £120,000.
Staying Faithful is slated for release this autumn and will recount Clark's formative years serving in the British Army, before his reality TV fame, along with how his Christian faith has and continues to guide him through his life.
Speaking about the release, Clark said: "Faith has always been important to me.
"It's the blueprint to everything I do, it helped me when I was younger, it guided me when I served in the British Army, every day I'm thankful that I'm part of something bigger outside of myself."
The reality star and former British Army engineer took home £95,150 in the 2024 series of The Traitors, after deceiving his friend Mollie Pearce.
An average of 5.5 million people tuned in to watch the dramatic finale that crowned Clark as the series two winner.
He recently also starred in the seventh season of BBC Two's Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps, where he joined six celebrities on a 300km pilgrimage through the Austrian and Swiss Alps to Einsiedeln Abbey as they discussed their different faiths and beliefs.
Clark previously opened up to the PA news agency about how the pilgrimage changed him for good and why he thinks people need to talk about faith more openly.
He said: "People think you can't talk about religion – especially the youth – because there's something wrong with it, or it seems like if you believe in one particular religion, you hate all others. But that's not what it is. It doesn't have to be that deep.
"Everyone makes it so serious. If you believe, you believe. If you don't believe, you don't have to, and it's not the end of the world."
Clark also stars in the new series of Channel 4's Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, which sees recruits endure special forces training in an attempt to make it through to the end.
He is joined by former Premier League footballer Troy Deeney, Strictly Come Dancing 2025 runner-up Tasha Ghouri, singer Lucy Spraggan, and ex-Love Island contestants Chloe Burrows and Adam Collard.
The memoir will be published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), a charity and independent Christian publisher founded in 1698.
The SPCK has also published a range of Bibles, guides to faith, academic texts and books for children with the aim of serving readers "at every stage of the Christian journey".
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Staying Faithful will be published on September 30.
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