I'll Banish my nerves

ACTRESS Siobhan McSweeney has admitted being host of The Traitors Ireland is "really nerve wracking".

- BY SANDRA MALLON Showbiz Editor

The former Derry Girls star is to host the first Irish version of the hit show on RTE on Sunday.

The series centres around strangers who arrive at the castle and become either Traitors or Faithful.

Their mission: To win €50,000 without getting Murdered or Banished (in the game, of course).

The twist? The Traitors walk amongst them, sowing doubt and deceit at every turn.

Speaking ahead of the show, the Cork native said: "It's really nerve wracking.

"I feel a huge responsibility, not only to the show, but like, you know, really Irish people watching it.

"It's alright to mess up abroad. You don't want to mess up at home, and I don't want to mess up at home. And I know that Irish audiences are very astute, very literate in every sense, so you don't want to do a half-assed job, really.

"So yes, I am nervous."

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But Siobhan joked she didn't get a "huge stack of money" to host the show, unlike what others might think.

She added: "Do you think they give me a stack of money for wardrobe, no, but they realise that a lot of the success, I mean, a little bit of the success of this show, is because of the iconography of it, like we know Claudia's [Winkleman] fringe.