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Wales Online
15 hours ago
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- Wales Online
The Traitors winner Harry Clark announces debut memoir focused on his faith
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 (Image: PA) 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". Article continues below Staying Faithful will be published on September 30.
South Wales Guardian
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
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. 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'. Staying Faithful will be published on September 30.
Leader Live
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
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. 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'. Staying Faithful will be published on September 30.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'He was a massive life force' - bandmate remembers Tom Parker
One of Tom Parker's bandmates has remembered him as a "massive life force". The Wanted star Tom, who was from Bolton, tragically died in 2022 at the age of 33, 17 months after announcing his diagnosis with an inoperable brain tumour. Now, his bandmate Jay McGuiness has spoken out about the late star as part of BBC Two's Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps, which sees celebrities of differing faiths and beliefs walk together through the Austrian and Swiss Alps. The 34-year-old reflects on Tom's death in the reality programme and told ITV's Good Morning Britain that grieving publicly can come with feelings of 'shame'. He said: 'Especially with grief, there's often quite a lot of shame grieving publicly, and it's easy to feel like 'I don't want to cry' and all that sort of thing, and 'I hate the idea of crying'. 'I also am considering Tom's family and friends, wife and kids, every time I'm talking about him, whether I'm asked about him or not, that's a reminder about something that could be painful, that could be on the wrong day for them to hear about. Read more: Widow of Tom Parker's moving message to other women who have lost a partner Read more: Tom Parker's widow Kelsey reveals she's pregnant 3 years after The Wanted stars death Read more: The Wanted singer, Tom Parker, remembered with memorial bench by Bolton charity The Wanted 'I want people to remember that, man, he was a massive life force. He was hilarious. I want people to remember the good as well as just remember how things ended.' Speaking about Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps, McGuiness said he was 'never convinced that anyone knows' where people go after they die and added: 'I think maybe we don't find out until you're gone.' Tom disclosed in October 2020 that he had been diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma and had begun radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He married his wife Kelsey in 2018, and the couple had two children, Aurelia and Bodhi. The Wanted formed in 2009, comprised of Parker and McGuiness, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran and Nathan Sykes, and had two UK number one singles and four UK top 10 albums, with best-known songs including All Time Low and Glad You Came. McGuiness is currently playing William Shakespeare in the UK and Ireland tour of musical & Juliet.
Daily Mail
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Traitor Harry seems like a nice guy - but will he stab everyone in the back? CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews BBC2's Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps
Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps (BBC2) Unfair though it is, every time I hear ex-Traitor Harry Clark speak, my guard goes up. His lips are moving — he must be lying. The 24-year-old former lance-corporal in the Royal Artillery scooped the £95,000 jackpot in last year's series by convincing everyone he was a nice guy, before stabbing them one by one in the back. He seems like a really nice guy on Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps too. I'm just waiting for him to push the other six celebrities off a mountain pass. Maybe, like Moriarty, he's biding his time until they reach the Reichenbach Falls. 'Celebrity' is the loosest of terms here. There's a former boy band member called Jay-from-The-Wanted, actress Helen Lederer, and Paralympian Stef Reid. Jeff Brazier is on the trip, of course: it appears to be a contractual obligation that he appears on all BBC reality shows. No one knows why he's 'famous' but he's been on Celebrity Race Round The World, Celebrity Masterchef, Celebrity Who Dares Wins and I'm A Celebrity — so I think we can be certain he's a celebrity. As for the other two, search me. Nelufar Hedayat is a journalist and podcast presenter, according to the press release, and Daliso Chaponda is a stand-up comedian from Malawi who featured on Britain's Got Talent. It's reassuring to know that Daliso is a comic. As the seven trekked towards the snowline on the Austrian border with Switzerland, he hooted, 'We're like proper pilgrimmin' right now, innit!' — and that had better be a joke because, if he really meant it, I might have to become an atheist. This is the seventh series of Pilgrimage and the format is unvarying. The celebs take it in turns to buttonhole each other and ask searching questions about faith, God and the meaning of life. The pretence is that these are intimate and private moments. In reality, they're surrounded by a camera crew, and the soul-searching is staged, though some of the confessionals were clearly heartfelt. Stef's description of how she lost her right foot, aged 15 while waterskiing, was horrendous — Jay looked like he was going to pass out. Harry asked Nelufar, who refuses to wear the hijab and whose husband is not a Muslim, whether she ever feared she was going to Hell. 'Am I damned?' she mused. 'Yeah, I think so. But I don't know if I believe in the version of God that would damn me for living the life I pick.' There's a fair bit of jostling for camera time. Jeff stripped off for a dip in an alpine lake, taking care not to get his hair wet. Gelled perfection like that doesn't happen accidentally, you know. Harry and Jay also got their kit off to double up in an outdoor tub at a Swiss chalet. The hostel owner, a rosy-cheeked frau named Christine, bustled over to sluice them off with a shower hose. The smile on her face told us that this is one of the perks of her job.
