JOURNALIST Robert Peston is set to need all his political nous as part of BBC One’s Celebrity Traitors line-up.
The 64-year-old is seen as a perfect fit after defecting from the Beeb.
Robert spent a decade as part of the channel’s news team — notably exposing the Northern Rock crisis in 2008 — before being lured to ITV in 2015.
He now leads their politics coverage and hosts weekly discussion show Peston.
A TV source said: “Poaching Peston for Traitors shows real ingenuity on the BBC’s part.
“And it’s a huge insight into the kind of show Celebrity Traitors will be.
“Casting is still under way, but this won’t be reality stars and the usual faces.
“It will be genuinely interesting names, doing the kind of TV they’re unlikely to enrol in again.
“Peston will be relying on his knowledge of Westminster back-stabbing to bring his A-game to Celebrity Traitors.”
Robert is expected to join Clare Balding, Tom Daley and Stephen Fry on the hit-show spin-off — which sees “Faithfuls” try to work out who is a traitor. And he should fare well under scrutiny at each “round table” discussion, having been grilled by the Serious Fraud Office over a banking scoop in 2008.
Filming is expected to begin early next year.
A Traitors spokesperson said: “This is a game of lies and deception, so it would be foolhardy for any Faithful to speculate before it begins.”
