{
  "id": 15588475,
  "title": "‘The Celebrity Traitors’: BBC Says It’s “Categorically Untrue” James Acaster Made Complaint About Co-Stars’ “Macho Banter”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/the-celebrity-traitors-bbc-says-its-categorically-untrue-james",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-19T09:09:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/the-celebrity-traitors-bbc-denies-james-acaster-complaint-1237167366/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The BBC has firmly denied that James Acaster complained about the behavior of fellow comedians, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, during The Celebrity Traitors. The Mail on Sunday reported over the weekend that Acaster, who starred in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, raised his concerns with producers at Studio Lambert after he became “uncomfortable” with the “macho […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}