Celebrity Traitors star James Acaster hits out at show producers for 'burying him alive' and says he felt pressured into taking part as he insists he didn't plan dramatic confession

James Acaster has said he was 'annoyed' he was walked into being buried alive on the Traitors and claimed he felt pressured into taking part in the challenge.The comedian, 41, said that if it had been a solo challenge he would have refused to do it, but because his partner Bella Ramsey's fate was tied to his own, he revealed he felt compelled to take part in the task.James hit out at producers for not properly explaining the situation and said that while they queried if any of the cast was claustrophobic, they didn't specify why.'I'd argue that's a different question to "are you OK with being buried alive?", James told Jessie and Lennie Ware on their Table Manners podcast.Explaining his unease about the challenge, James said: ' I was annoyed that I got talked into being buried alive. Well, the thing was with that is that they tied us to our partners. 'Not physically, but it was like if you don't do it, you let them down. They're up for murder. So if they said you're being buried alive alone, I'd say great, not me. Because I'd be like I'm not getting buried alive for this s**t. James Acaster has said he was 'annoyed' he was walked into being buried alive on the Traitors and claimed he felt pressured into taking part in the challenge The comedian, 41, said that if he had been a solo challenge he would have refused to do it, but because his partner Bella Ramsey's fate was tied to his own, he revealed he felt compelled to take part in the task James hit out at producers for not properly explaining the situation and said that while they queried if any of the cast was claustrophobic, they didn't specify why 'But instead if you don't do it Bella Ramsay's going to be up for murder. Then also when you're a Traitor who is probably going to end up murdering them, you feel a bit bad.'So yeah you think I better do it. And then you're in the grave thinking, what am I doing?'When asked how long it took, James said: 'They said 15 minutes, but it was a lot longer. First of all they put us all under there and add the soil and Jerry goes "I want to get out." So they're getting Jerry out while we're all in there. Then they're setting up a drone shot. You could hear that through the layers.'Then Bella and I were the last ones to get dug up.'He was asked: 'Before you go on, do they say we're going to do stunts like this?''No. They asked all of us, well they ask a billion questions before you go on. But they asked us, are you claustrophobic? And everyone went no not really,' James replied.'But I'd argue that's a different question to "are you OK with being buried alive?". Apparently there was a pipe to let air in. But I didn't know. Joe Lycett knew and it calmed him down.'Now, I would argue that's a different question. Yeah, that's a different question to are you okay with us burying you alive? I would say I agree with you. Those are two different things. Yeah, it's being in a small room, not in a bloody coffin. Buried alive is Yeah.' 'I'd argue that's a different question to 'are you OK with being buried alive?', James told Jessie and Lennie Ware on their Table Manners podcast Explaining his unease about the challenge, James said: ' I was annoyed that I got talked into being buried alive. Well, the thing was with that is that they tied us to our partners'James previously spoke about his struggle taking part in that challenge with Far Out magazine: 'I was lying there thinking, actually, I think I'm really scared of this. As soon as the soil was heaped on top, Bella did say: "Imagine if they can't get us out."Jerry Hall did quit the challenge and James believes he should have followed suit, saying: '[Jerry] didn't like it. She didn't like, well, none of us liked it.'I respect Jerry the most because Jerry just went: 'I'm not doing this.' Like, are you kidding me? And the rest of us were just like: 'We want to win Traitors in our coffins, idiots.''We should have just done what – as soon as I heard Jerry got out, I should have said to Bella: 'I'm getting out, forget it. If it's a free-for-all now, we should all get out. They can't stop us all. We could all do it'.'Elsewhere on the Table Manners, James insisted he hadn't pre-planned his shock exit from the game when he confessed to being a Traitor during a roundtable. 'I didn't go in planning to do it. But after it had happened, you go, well that's never happened on the show before. 'So there's going to be every opinion, every opinion under the sun about that.'James also mentioned that he doesn't look at social media or press coverage about it, so he feels a bit disconnected from the public reaction.