Body Language expert analyses week 1 of Celebrity Traitors

Evening Standard

Celebrity Traitors star Alan Carr has been exhibiting notoriously tell-tale signs that he’s a Traitor that could lead to his downfall, a body language expert has revealed.The comedian, 49, was announced as a Traitor in the series premiere of the star-studded BBC show on Wednesday evening and went on to “murder” Paloma Faith in the subsequent episode.

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00:00How are the celebrities going to spot the traitors?

00:04I wanna be a traitor.

00:07How are they gonna figure out who they are?

00:10Let me show you a couple of deception tools

00:13that you can look out for over these coming weeks.

00:16Eye blocking.

00:18This is where when people are being deceptive,

00:21they look to block contact with their eyes.

00:24Jonathan Ross has already exhibited this

00:27when some of the traitors are being discussed.

00:30When everybody else is looking around,

00:31once the traitors had been allocated,

00:33looking around to who might it be,

00:35he temporarily looked down.

00:37And in looking down, your eyelids cover your eyes.

00:41Truth slips.

00:43This is where the body language contradicts

00:47what's coming out of the mouth.

00:49Richard Nixon, the US president, famously said,

00:53live on television,

00:55people need to know whether or not their president's a crook.

00:58Well, I'm not a crook.

01:00I earned every cent of that money.

01:02So that's a truth slip.

01:03That's where the body language contradicts

01:06what's coming out of the mouth.

01:08And that's the body telling the truth whilst the mouth lies.

01:11So watch out for that one.

01:13What else can we do?

01:15Facial touching, self-comfort gestures.

01:18Interestingly, Alan Carr exhibited these

01:22when feeling that strain about Paloma

01:26and how he had put her in that coffin.

01:30And he was touching his head and had his hands in his mouth

01:34when that was being discussed.

01:36So watch out for facial touching, the self-comfort gestures.

01:41Touching the head, touching the face, putting their hands in the mouth,

01:44that kind of more nervous behaviour.

01:45Alan Carr's already exhibited some of those.

01:49But my favourite deception tell is one known as duping delight.

01:55And that's when somebody has successfully deceived somebody

01:58and they experience that sense of relief or maybe even joy that they've done it.

02:03That devious may well come into play.

02:06They can just a little half smile.

02:09So when you communicate, they communicate a lie and you communicate to them

02:13that perhaps you are believing it.

02:16They may well just have a little smile, a little half smile.

02:21Sometimes both corners of the mouth or sometimes just one.

02:26Just a little tiny little, what we call a micro expression of happiness, of relief, of joy.

02:31Over the coming weeks when the traders who are successfully flying under the radar at the moment

02:36are more directly confronted, if they succeed in being able to convince one of the faithful

02:43that they are in fact telling the truth, duping delight may well be something that could be real use.

02:50My final clue we call forced eye contact.

02:54Now we all know the old trick that people, I mentioned it earlier,

02:57that people try to avoid eye contact when they're lying.

03:00But really good liars know that, they understand that, and they've thought about it.

03:05And they go now, I want to make sure that I don't block eyes or I don't look away.

03:10So they don't make eye contact, but they make much more eye contact than they normally will.

03:16So forced eye contact, they're doing it too much.

03:19And that in itself can become really telling to people trying to read deception.

03:24My final trick, something that actually Kate Garroway did in episode one.

03:31She was looking for what we call variance from baseline.

03:35So she was asking Cat a number of questions like, are you wearing a check jacket?

03:39Cat goes, well, yes, I am.

03:41And then she goes, are you a traitor?

03:43So she was trying to establish what a cat looked like.

03:46How did she sound? How did she behave?

03:48What's her body language like when she's being truthful?

03:51Then asked her whether she was a traitor.

03:54And to see if she could see any change, any variance from baseline.

04:00That is a fantastic deception tool.

04:03Watch out for those key tools coming over the coming weeks on this quest that the faithful are on.

04:11To try and figure out who are the traitor men.

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