‘One contestant makes wool vulvas!’ Tom Daley on his knockout knitting show – and arguing with Traitors producers

<p>As he prepares to host The Game of Wool, the Olympian diver talks about trying to get murdered faithfuls resurrected on Traitors – and the time he knitted himself a woollen chandelier</p><p></p><p></p><p>In The Game of Wool, Channel 4’s quest to find Britain’s best knitter, you can’t take your eyes off Tom Daley’s outfits. One of his goals for the series, he says, is that “what I was wearing would get progressively more interesting”, which is ridiculous because in the very first episode he’s wearing a vivid, asymmetrical shawl that in some places reaches the floor, and he looks like a wizard who might seem chaotic but is actually very powerful.</p><p>“Sheila [Greenwell, one of two judges, along with Di Gilpin] made that for <a href="https://www.lafetiche.com/">La Fetiche</a>,” he says, referring to the avant garde house of knitwear. “Later on I wear some stuff by <a href="https://hopemacaulay.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorA_HDIYDGAMf3jA1SE5fIo0VJAM-f-4qtITldh2W6yk2kIazI6">Hope Macaulay</a>, a Northern Irish textiles designer, then <a href="https://www.boykloves.com/">Boy Kloves</a>, right out of Central Saint Martins, then towards the end, two archival Stella McCartney looks.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/30/vulvas-tom-daley-knitting-game-of-wool-traitors-olympian">Continue reading...</a>