‘Gay men keep my ego going – they message me all the time!’ Ed Gamble on Traitors, true love, weight loss and people-pleasing
As a Traitors obsessive, Gamble is in his element hosting its hugely popular companion show, Uncloaked. He discusses keeping the show’s secrets, edgelord comics and how he became known as a ‘mega wife guy’ Ed Gamble does not like seeing himself on screen. “I know a lot of comics who struggle with watching themselves,” he says. “No one should be having to look at their own face so much. It feels simultaneously…
Key points
- Ed Gamble hosts The Traitors: Uncloaked and knows the Celebrity Traitors result since filming.
- Gamble says he has received more work since losing 44kg.
- He married TV producer and musician Charlie Jamison in 2021.
Ed Gamble hosts the BBC's Traitors companion show, The Traitors: Uncloaked, and has known the outcome of Celebrity Traitors since it was filmed months ago. He also presents the podcast Off Menu with James Acaster and hosted the summer show Unacceptable, with another series starting next month.
Speaking to the Guardian in a pub garden near his east London home on a mild October day, Gamble said he keeps the show's secrets even from his wife, who loves the programme. He described himself as a Traitors obsessive and named Ross Kemp, an actor in this series, as his favourite contestant so far.
On the show and its contestants
Gamble said he would not dismiss claims of unconscious racial and cultural bias raised by actor Myha'la after she was banished from the show, saying it is something that needs to be discussed. He also said Myha'la had signed her own death warrant with a wink at Richard E Grant shortly before he was unmasked as a traitor.
He said he dislikes it when players do not play the game hard enough. Of Kemp, he said there are many things he finds adorable and very funny, citing his hard-man image alongside his sensitivity and emotion.
You’ve got to say thanks so much to the gay men for keeping some sort of ego going, because they don’t care, they’ll message me all the time.
— Ed Gamble
Weight loss and career
Gamble, who turned 40 this year, wrote in his 2023 memoir Glutton that he was the funny fat guy at school. He reached about 120kg in his early 20s and later lost 44kg, starting after he was booked for a TV gig and also managing type 1 diabetes, diagnosed at 13.
He said he probably has got far more work since losing weight and called that sad but acknowledged he benefits from it. He married Charlie Jamison in 2021 and said he is known as a mega wife guy, adding that gay men keep his ego going by messaging him.
