Happy Friday, readers, and congratulations to Neuroblastoma UK for taking home the £87,500 prize fund (spoiler alert for later in the article) after their “faithful patron” won the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors.
Society Diary has spent the week scratching its head with regards to the meaning of “woke”, as the well-received John Lewis Christmas advert was praised by some culture warriors for sticking it to the snowflake brigade.
Former home secretary Suella Braverman’s possibly even worse half Rael posted on social media: “No wokery, no DEI messaging, no unusual family setups. Just a father, a son, and the simple, timeless love of family.”
The anti-PC messaging must have been pretty subliminal because all Diary could see was a short clip of a son giving his dad an old dance music vinyl.
To remind us what woke looks like, Nigel Farage recently criticised the National Trust for putting “vegan tampons in men’s toilets”.
“God help us”, he exclaimed on Facebook, presumably wondering why the charity couldn’t offer good old-fashioned spam tampons like we all had to use during the war.
Charity thanks ‘faithful patron’
It has been the TV hit of the year so far. National treasures like Stephen Fry and Celia Imrie have amused millions of us as they showed how terrible they are at judging when someone is lying.
The Worst Faithfuls in History looked like they might redeem themselves in the grand finale before returning to form and being easily deceived by the treacherous Alan Carr.
Yes, the bespectacled Chatty Man won the entire £87,500 prize pot for children’s cancer charity Neuroblastoma UK, tearfully admitting he had found the whole competition quite stressful.
The organisation, which recorded an income of £665,000 in 2023, thanked “faithful patron for nine years” Carr on Instagram and said the money “might just mean something big for our small charity”.
However, several sector folk asked throughout the series why all the celebs’ charities could not have been mentioned at some point in the series.
Earlier this year, donations poured into Mencap after unsuccessful Traitors finalist Alexander Dragonetti revealed he was going to give some money to a learning disability charity if he had won.
But even Dragonetti hadn’t named Mencap specifically, which suggests it might be BBC guidelines not to promote charities. Or perhaps it’s just another mysterious case of this “wokery” (whatever that means) the likes of Mr Braverman complain about.
