A Broadway Emcee, blue-painted superhero, and a very blunt campaign manager: Alan Cumming has done it all. But three seasons into hosting his hit Peacock series The Traitors, Cumming admitted this chapter of his life isn’t what he expected.
“I have a constant barrage of reality stars now in my DMs and in my life asking me to be on The Traitors,” Cumming, 60, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, April 28, at the WNET 2025 Gala. “It’s not something I thought would be my life, but it is.”
Hosted at The Edison Ballroom in Manhattan, the annual WNET Gala celebrates the arts and the power influencers of public media. In line with this year’s theme, Broadway and Beyond, Cumming took the stage for a 30-minute medley of showstoppers.
Performances included “But Alive!” from Applause, “How Did We Come to This” from Wild Party, “The Ladies Who Lunch” from Company and, of course, “Mein Herr” and “Maybe This Time” from Cabaret — the show that won him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1998.
While Cumming has said he “could die happy” never being in Cabaret again, he revealed that his Broadway return is already in the cards.
“Plans are afoot for me to come in early [20]27 to do a new, top international musical,” Cumming teased.
For now, Cumming has his hands full with The Traitors, which has been renewed for a fourth and fifth season. From near-physical arguments to contestants being stuck inside a coffin, the first three seasons have already served viewers a plethora of iconic moments.
There’s one “nightmare” Traitors memory that Cumming says he’ll never forget — and it didn’t even happen on camera. After filming the season 2 finale aboard a yacht off the coast of Scotland, the cast and crew found themselves stranded at sea when a storm rolled in unexpectedly.
“They said we couldn’t get on the little boats to take us back to harbor, so we went on a two-hour trip on this ship to a bigger port in a huge f***ing storm,” Cumming recalled. “One of the contestants was projectile vomiting — into a metal bowl! I can never get over that detail. Sandra [Diaz-Twine] projectile vomiting into a metal bowl. Who gives someone a metal bowl when they’re being sick?”
While not all of the contestants were savvy to the motions of the sea, Cumming was able to make the best of the perilous moment below deck with, well, Below Deck’s own Kate Chastain.
“She was like an old hand — she was just looking for the booze,” Cumming said. “It was just completely bonkers. Camera things were flying — cameras, bits of equipment. Kate and I were just having drinks while trying to avoid the sprays of Sandra’s vomit.”
As for which Hollywood star might rock the ship on the next season of Traitors, Cumming’s Lost in Scotland cohost came to mind.
“Miriam Margolyes, I’d love for her to come on,” Cumming said. “She’s hilarious. And she’d just cause so much trouble.”
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