Richard Osman told Friday's Late Late Show that he has the perfect contestant in mind for the next series of BBC One's Celebrity Traitors: his fellow best-selling author Marian Keyes.
Describing Marian Keyes as "the nicest woman in the whole world", Osman told host Patrick Kielty: "I'm trying to persuade the BBC to put Marian on Celebrity Traitors. Don't you think?"
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"She would have to be a Faithful, I would have thought, no?" replied Kielty.
"The woman [in the audience] who said 'no' is exactly right," the Pointless favourite continued. "Imagine Marian as a Traitor! She'd be the greatest Traitor of all time because no one would believe it of her."
Thursday Murder Club author Osman also said that Keyes had given him some great advice about writing - and followed it up with kindness.
"She said ages ago, we were talking about how hard it is to [write]. The only thing about writing, if you're writing, is you've got to sit down and do it - that's the only rule. You've got to put your backside in the chair and actually start. It's like going to the gym: you've got to put your trainers on. And that's the worst bit of it, and once you've done it, you think, 'Now I'm going to have to do it'.
"And she (Marian) said, 'Well, I always light a candle. Before I start writing, I light a candle. So, before the candle is lit, I'm not writing. When it's lit, I am writing'.
"I said, 'That's a really lovely idea'. And then two days later I get a thing in the post - and it's a candle from Marian, saying 'Happy writing'. That's nice, so I cannot believe she's a Traitor! That is why she'd be amazing!"
Osman's new book, The Impossible Fortune, is published by Penguin.
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