Richard Osman blunder leaves ‘The Celebrity Traitors’ completely ‘blindsided’

The Celebrity Traitors bosses have insisted Richard Osman got the upcoming second series' launch date "wrong."

During a live recording of the TV presenter and 52-year-old journalist Marina Hyde's The Rest Is Entertainment podcast at London's Southbank Centre on September 5, their guest and The Celebrity Traitors series one finalist Joe Marler discussed the advice he would give series two stars.

The 36-year-old former rugby union player asked, "What is it, September 23, the next series?”

And Richard then claimed: "By the way, to point out, it’s absolutely embargoed that it starts on September 23... let’s talk about what we call the events of September 23 this year … the cat’s out of the bag, isn’t it? Not to repeat it."

The Celebrity Traitors team are said to have been left "blindsided and confused" over where Richard got the claimed September 23 start date for the BBC's star-studded version of its game of backstabbing and betrayal.

An insider told The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column, "There was huge frustration when Richard wrongly announced the date, and everyone involved were blindsided and confused as to where he got that from.”

"He even sent a text to the BBC’s Head of Content Kate Philips to apologise for the cock-up, which is not a scenario which happens very often,” they revealed, adding, "Making it worse is the fact that so many people assumed that if Richard said it, then it was probably correct. After all, he’s a BBC star, and former telly executive who’s well placed to uncover these bits of information.”

"Except he got it wrong,” they claimed.

The publication also reports that the show will return "later than September 23, possibly at the end of this month, or into October."