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

James A can win under the rules of course, but in my opinion not a Traitor i feel would be deserving of a win.

I like Traitors who have been tactical and taken considered.

Not in to anyone, in anything, who lets everyone else take the risks and do the heavy lifting, then reap the rewards of their efforts. So Im not into James A doing it in this game

James A has benefited from luck, other people's mistakes and the sheer incompetence of the Faithful. (As has Maya, and to some extent Kenny.)

There's a difference between clever, strategic gameplay and coasting along while everyone else does the work like James A has. It's more than one task though, he was all for Kenny getting the dagger - and takimg the risk and effort in using it. Case of "Anyone else but me" because he didn't want to take on risk himself but wants to win.

I’ve just been reading a reddit thread about Sharon and why she was so pissed off. No one could understand that she was fed up with the men not listening to her. Apparently that simply isn’t a thing, according to men anyway.

How could anyone not realise Joanne was Irish?

There are only two episodes left I think

the cliff hanger would have been more interesting if one of the voted had been a traitor.
I like both Sharon and Joanne. so sad one will go.
James B and Micheal are annoying. they get it wrong, yet still think they are clever.
why is on every series the faithful forget they are on a game show called the traitors.....they alway seem to trust certain people.
sadly Maya will no doubt win it for being to pretty to be suspected......!!!!

I wonder if Miranda and Sharon were really close in the castle, just like Miranda and Joe and it didn’t get shown and that’s another reason Sharon looks upset and fed up with it all

I agree. He’s said some quite bold stuff there and tried to influence play.

@OsfameronTanamoril You didn’t know Joanne is Irish?

@GobbolinoAndSootica whyy doesnt James A deserve a win. it was one trial.. the rest of the time he has spoken pretty well at the round table. imo

Joanna is lound and blunt (often seen as rude) but I don't know if you can label her as a bully. No more than you could Michael and Romesh, who ignored Sharon contribution when "discussing' who the three to choice - both then loudly announced their choice and agreed with each other, put ignored Sharon's comments again about James. Then when Sharon expressed dislike of it, went on to critising her for not saying (despite the fact she already had several times) and her "what's the point" reaction to them not having listened to her

Looks likely it'll be an undeserved win for James A, and a possible win for Maya and Kenny.

I didn't know Joanne is Irish, but everybody is something! Sharon's Scottish. Romesh is British Sri Lankan. Maya is mixed race. Michael Sheen is Welsh. Amol was British Indian.

If we can't criticise anyone because of hidden prejudice, there's literally no one we can criticise.

This has just made me stop and question my views on Joanne. You could well be right that her being confident and not playing nicely has rubbed me up the wrong way but I really don't think it's that. It's definitely not because she's Irish. I just find her brash and she's definitely got bullying vibes. I would feel the same if she was a man.

Wasn’t it Sharon who said that Maya doesn’t say anything, and was immediately contradicted by Joanne? Sharon is quite astute but us being ignored.

it is so annoying, james b and michael have fixed ideas about who the traitor is and then tries to fix their behaviour to their ideas.
it is like last year with adam mohammed and David Olusoga, and also Clare Balding.
and of course, as said above they are only thinking of one traitor at a time
i hope Bash wins

I think there must be a lot happening behind the scenes. So many of them look so unhappy. It’s actually an uncomfortable watch.

I don’t find Joanne bullying at all. I think she’s very outspoken. I think morale is probably low now Miranda has gone.

I think the tide might turn against Maya once Sharon goes.

If the traitors were truly playing, Maya and Kenny would turn on James A to help 'get a Traitor', then work together to get to the end - if Maya continues unsuspected.

Once the numbers are down to 5, I think they'll suspect Kenny though - they'll think why is he still here?

Agree completely with the pretty privilege RE Maya.

Pretty privilege on Traitors works on women too.A recent male winner in one of the overseas series was so pretty ( though not in my eyes) that both the women and the men overlooked him. One faithful even said ' He's so hot I can't think straight". 😀
This is not to take anything away from Maya. I hope she and Kenny win together.

This always winds me up as well.

Whereas what I see is an (unconscious?) bias in posters who are vehement in their dislike of an Irish woman who is confident and doesn’t play nice.

Sharon looks done in. Nobody listened to her and trying to stop them choosing the three traitors as trustworthy may well be her downfall :(
The faithful miss out again.

At the round table having heat on her why didn’t Sharon bring Maya in as the quiet one off people’s radar and then drop the bombshell that Maya had a secret shield that she didn’t disclose in that early mission ?

I know, the one thing that Jerry said that was good was that we keep naming ONE person rather than three. They never think of it in terms of a traitorous GROUP.

Absolutely this. Nothing against Maya, but they've said it themselves and they are overlooking errors because of her prettiness and respecting her more. Probably another reason why Sharon (doesn't comply to male beauty standards as much as Maya) is ignored.

Same. And it really highlights the unconscious bias and woman not being believed/respected this programme.

Me and DH were just debating this - is there a point where if all three traitors get near the end, they can effectively control the vote to the end? Once there are five of them left, so maybe at the final round table? It might make for a dull final if so, so surely the producers will have to throw another grenade in there?