In an interview with The Times, the 41-year-old revealed that cast members were permitted just 10 supervised minutes each morning to contact loved ones.
“A member of the production team is there with you, so you can’t have an authentic conversation because you can’t tell them anything that’s happening,” he said.
“At one point my partner said, ‘Have you caught the sun?’ I was saying, ‘Oh yeah, we were outside for one of the missions.’ I was told I couldn’t even tell her that,” he explained.
When asked if the show was “the reality television version of communist-era East Berlin“, he replied: “I think people who lived under the Stasi might have a thing or two to say about that comparison, but it is intense, and apparently on the normal version of The Traitors they don’t even get the phone call.