Welcome to the castle - watch it bring you to your knees | 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 5 [TV Pace]

It’s good that’s it’s not like the one with Alan carr and Jonathan Ross who embraced being traitors with relish. Kenny is, but in a different way and Maya is lucky to be able to go under the radar.
The reluctant traitor is also a bit different.

Actually I think James A being such a crap traitor is the ONLY thing keeping me watching this series.

It's just different. Why would you expect every series to be the same? It would be too predictable.

Is it the editing or just not as good as series 1? Spoiled by REG & James A, maybe as Traitors, I think the picking of those two has had a lot to do with it.
The mission last night was off as well.
James A.
A. Waste. Of. A. Traitor.

I think Jerry had a good point about there being 3 traitors left, and the Faithful couldn't even come up with one name between them! Seems mad. The traitors will have to make a massive fumble to not win this one.

I kinda get where Joanne was coming from with Miranada although her tone and snappiness was a bit much, why say "oh I was going to say something about creeky floorboards beside me but now Im not" when everyone knows she was standing next to Joanne (or Maya who according to editing seems to be getting overlooked completely), I can see how Joanne felt it was throwing her under the bus a bit!

I thought Miranda and Romesh both looked like they've had enough in tonight's episode. And Bash hasnt made a huge impact.

No because they're going down the road of Ross being intentionally murdered when in reality it was a chance murder. They are also presuming it was committed by touch or something he drank. They've dismissed Sharon and her theory especially James B who now suspects her !
Poor Michael Sheen, he's doing a David Olusoga, ( love him ) trying so hard and getting absolutely nowhere.

no Acaster put the heat on Jerry at the table
he often manages to change the conversation i noticed

Agreed. Thought it was about raising money for charity. It doesn't really matter who wins/gets banished/murderd

Maybe the producers knew it wouldn’t work as a money accumulator. Perhaps the goal was to put the traitors under pressure and see how their traitor bond holds up. Plus create some new theories in the faithful about who might be a traitor.

The RT edit seemed to have been done so the outcome of Jerry being banished was a surprise to the viewer. I think any mention of Maya potentially being a traitor is also being edited out so viewers are surprised when she does get the full heat on her from the faithful. Which will inevitably come now the numbers are shrinking.

I think James A did the right thing and think all of the traitors should’ve sat this one out. I don’t like Joanne at all. Why aren’t they killing off Sharon?

Yes, it was good to have a mission that didn’t involve coffins and spooky death characters in hoods for a change!

Maya and Kenny need to ask James A what he couid see through the mask he didn’t take off. We didn’t hear the faithfuls talking to each other during the blindfold part , so maybe told not to ?

Could traitors have taken two pieces?

That task was never going to work. How were the traitors supposed to select the correct pieces tip toe around and put the shield together in the time allowed.

IT WOZ KICKING OFF SO I SCARPERED

We have pink skin though...l meant...and I thought it was obvious but clearly not -- that a tan, if we are lucky enough to get one at all, makes us look hot and flushed.
We do not get that desirable honey/golden tan.

I think Maya must be getting mentioned but the producers are just not showing it yet. I think Maya is about to get heat on her. Same as James a, Sharon and Michael..

Maybe he made noise on purpose.

Were they allowed to talk when the traitors were given their time slot? Cause I'm thinking the faithful could have just started speaking their names and that would let the others know who they were and roughly where. Of a traitor was halfway around the room they'd be caught out!

One this that Jerry Hall said is correct though, she said that there are three traitors and they only name one. I always think that, that they focuss to much one ONE traitor rather than look at a strategy of 3. Although that's more difficult.

Overall, there is a distinct lack of logical thinking going on in there. Obviously we are being much more directed on what is relevant, but I still think they are making so many faulty assumptionsnand building on them.

Joanne masks her own insecurities by being loud and abrasive and trying to make others feel insecure. It's a personality type that always really grates on me.

I think Sharon and Miranda are by far the most dangerous Faithfuls and need to go sooner rather than later. I'd murder Miranda and point the finger at Joanne. (Not just because I'm not a fan).

Kenny is playing a blinder. His attempts to bamboozle them by being loud during the mission were inspired. And I think Maya is very measured and good at gently steering the chat. James A was really rubbish in the mission, but it was nice to see him trying to contribute more in the turret at least. But Maya and Kenny might need to hang him out to dry at some point, I think.

James B lives in Ibiza, though

Most of them just don't seem very bright. I think it was interesting that when they spoke about Sharon on Uncloaked Jessie made a point of saying that she wasn't listened to either.

She didn't apologise. She said she was embarrassed by it.

On an aside, they are all professionals, they are all aware of the cameras and they are all performing in the castle. This is precisely the reason the celebrity round tables are so different from the .civilian. round tables.

The blindfold task is such a gamble isn’t it. There’s a reasonable chance that some of them can see a tiny bit of light from the bottom of the blindfold. The only way they definitely couldn’t is to cover their noses with the blindfolds as well so that they’re more flat and fully block out the light.

So they’d just need to tilt their heads up to see who is moving around the room.

I don’t get why the producers would take such a risk. I think they should have had blindfolds plus them all facing the wall.

I’m with you on this.

It wasn’t just snapping at Miranda (whom I like but disagreed with her backing down and debunking the floorboard theory).

It was also post RT when she walked in on Sharon and Miranda who looked very guilty at seeing her. Her comment about Miranda making a good politician was unnecessary.