Inside the lifetime of Traitors favorite Harry forward of tomorrow’s finale

Within a couple of brief weeks, he is gone from being a reliable and much-liked army engineer right into a ruthless, back-stabbing killer.

And within the course of, Harry Clarke has turn out to be some of the common actuality stars on our screens.

The British Army Corporal, 23, is the favorite to win the second collection of the BBC‘s smash-hit actuality present The Traitors – and its £120,000 prize cash – tomorrow, after deploying a stunning vary of Machiavellian techniques on the programme.

At the start of the second collection, Harry was chosen as considered one of three ‘traitors’ whose job is to ‘kill’ off the remaining 19 ‘devoted’ contestants, evening after evening.

Meanwhile, the faithfuls work to unmask the traitors – choosing them off in a bid to safe the prize cash.

Harry Clarke, 23, has turn out to be some of the common actuality stars on our screens

Harry Clarke and girlfriend Anna Maynard embrace whereas out for dinner

While Harry was initially overshadowed by his fellow traitor, the proudly villainous Paul Gorton, the coed grew to become the grasp – and murdered him.

Last evening’s spectacular episode noticed Harry proceed along with his mission of deceit. In a shock twist that proved him to be much more treacherous than many had imagined, he ruthlessly ‘killed’ one other, newly-recruited traitor, Ross Carson – having cynically befriended him the earlier night.

What would possibly shock viewers extra, nevertheless, is the truth that this isn’t Harry’s first brush with fame.

Harry and a pal pose for an image on a non-public jet

Harry and Anna lean in for a kiss in matching white towelling robes

The younger man from Slough, who enjoys boxing in his spare time, was on a boys’ evening out in 2022 when he met Anna Maynard, who would go on to turn out to be his girlfriend.

Anna, 23, is a kids’s TV presenter and social-media star with 150,000 Instagram followers – partly due to having well-known brothers: pop star Conor and vlogger (and former I’m A Celebrity star) Jack.

She has proudly detailed her blossoming romance with Harry on her TikTok feed.

‘We actually met in a nightclub the place I stay,’ the host of CBBC’s Got What It Takes singing competitors instructed her TikTok followers.

Ms Winkleman poses with the BAFTA for Entertainment Performance Award for The Traitors final May

Claudia Winkleman hosts the BBC actuality present The Traitors with season two kicking off with 22 contestants 

‘He’s not from the place I stay and the possibilities that he was out which might be evening are actually, actually slim. He was sober whereas I used to be drunk and he nonetheless fancied me so I’m clearly doing one thing proper.’

She revealed that she knew Harry was ‘the one’ when he drove her and her buddies dwelling from the membership that evening and stopped off at McDonalds.

For his half, Harry appeared to benefit from the perks of being a part of a well-known household, attending glitzy dinners and travelling with Conor on a non-public jet as a part of the household entourage.

But his duplicity on the BBC present, pre-recorded final September, has prompted Anna to ask how she’d ever ‘belief him once more’.

She joked on Instagram: ‘If anybody needs an untrue, unloyal, dishonest, a traitor as a boyfriend, be my visitor. I’m placing him up on the market. I do not want that dangerous power in my life. This entire factor, my notion has simply modified.’

But the pair, who had been rocked by claims that Anna had kissed one other man at the start of their relationship, look like fortunately nonetheless collectively, posting loved-up photographs solely this week.

Harry, who was working full-time as an engineer within the British Army earlier than becoming a member of the present, stated that he want to use his potential winnings to ‘deal with’ his household and girlfriend and to ‘begin my new chapter in life’.

And, with thousands and thousands of viewers tuning in each evening this week to see whether or not the ‘faithfuls’ will lastly unmask him, the longer term actually appears brilliant for him.

Industry insiders say Harry’s ‘charming’ and ‘likeable’ character may see him go far.

He may turn out to be the ‘face of a high-street model’ or comply with within the footsteps of TV stars akin to Bear Grylls and SAS veteran Ant Middleton and personal the ‘younger journey man house,’ based on main expertise supervisor Jonathan Shalit.

Harry already has a formidable 25,700 followers on Instagram, regardless of having posted simply 16 photographs, and is represented by main tv PR company Plank.

Indeed, the younger star appears effectively outfitted for the world of superstar.

‘I can strategy anybody, speak for ages and chat somebody’s ear off. My mum says it: I’m the clumsiest however smartest man she’s ever met,’ Harry stated earlier than he filmed the present.

However, in the identical breath Harry admitted that he is ‘obtained a Jekyll and Hyde in me’.

He stated: ‘I even have 5 brothers and sisters so I can inform little white lies and I make myself consider them first – after which it simply turns into the reality.’

Tomorrow, The Traitors’ finale will show simply how perfidious younger Harry is ready to be to realize stardom.