Just when we thought we had seen the last of John Bercow on our screens, the news has broken that the former speaker of the House of Commons is joining the line up of the US version of the hit game show The Traitors.
Currently being filmed in Scotland, the show will see Bercow join the likes of Love Island’s Ekin-Su and a whole host of other reality TV stars to be divvied up into ‘traitors’ and ‘faithfuls’. The traitors will have to kill off the faithfuls one by one to get to the hefty £205,000 cash prize, while the faithfuls do their best to root out the traitors at a nightly interrogation. Mr Steerpike is certain some of Bercow’s former colleagues in Westminster may have ideas about which team they’d like to see him on.
During his time as speaker, Bercow developed somewhat of a cult following across the pond, revealing in 2019 that wherever he visited the States, Americans would tell him just how much they enjoyed watching PMQs.
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