UPDATE — 3/24/25, 3:48 p.m. ET: Bob the Drag Queen confirmed Neil Patrick Harris felt badly about forgetting Bob was on The Traitors.
“He was very embarrassed because his husband, David [Burtka], was like ‘Neil, she was on the show. She was literally on the show!’” Bob, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting his new book, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert. “And he was like, ‘Oh, my God. Yes, you were. I don’t know how I forgot.’”
As Bob recently explained, Harris, 51, encountered him at an event and gushed over how well he thought the RuPaul’s Drag Race alum would do on The Traitors — despite the fact that Bob had just been on the Peacock competition series.
“I think he might have been a little tipsy,” Bob quipped to Us. “It was a party, after all. He was quite mortified.”
Original story:
Neil Patrick Harris is an avid Traitors watcher but made a grave mistake with Bob The Drag Queen, it seems.
“Can I tell you what happened?” Bob, 38, asked during a recent appearance on the “Tea Time With Raven & Miranda” podcast. “I was at Madonna’s Oscar party. I was wearing a pink kilt.”
He added, “I was wearing the kilt I was eliminated in on The Traitors, and I look over and I see Neil Patrick Harris. I said, ‘Hey girl, how are you?’”
Harris, 51, apparently followed up Bob’s greeting by asking: “Are you watching The Traitors?”
Bob was laughing while recalling the moment with podcast hosts Raven Symoné and her wife, Miranda Maday, who were stunned by the question.
“I said, ‘Yeah I am.’ He was like, ‘Do you just love it?’ I said, ‘Yeah, it’s a great show,’” Bob recalled. “He was like, ‘You should go on The Traitors.’ I said, ‘Are you watching The Traitors?’”
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The RuPaul’s Drag Race alum added, “Bitch, are you watching The Traitors?!”
Clearly, NPH wasn’t watching the latest episodes of the U.S. version. For those who are lost, Bob was one of the titular Traitors on The Traitors season 3, the finale of which aired just days after the Oscars. In fact, he made widespread headlines about his game play on the show. Viewers called out his Traitor-on-Traitor drama with Survivor alum Boston Rob, who became the reason why Bob was eliminated from the show. Fans were also shook by how Bob went for the Housewives first — especially Real Housewives of New York City alum Dorinda Medley.
“This really pissed people off on the internet,” Bob said of murdering her first. “I don’t know this woman. I don’t know that she’s this icon on Real Housewives. I don’t know [if] she’s causing a scene. I have no clue who Dorinda is, so I’m like, ‘Girl, kill her.’ I don’t know, let’s pick someone because they’re all strangers to me.”
Despite his willingness to make Dorinda the Traitors’ first murder, Bob said he was still hurt to send anyone home.
“I was not acting,” Bob said, reflecting on his reaction from the next morning. “It genuinely was sad for someone to go. Her dreams got crushed. Yes, I did it, but it was still sad. … I was never really acting on the show. If I was crying, I really was crying because I was emotional. It was also a crazy time in my life.”
