Welcome to the castle - we got fun and games | 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 2 [TV Pace]

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Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5571945-celebrity-traitors-s2?page=1

This is a tv pace thread so make sure you’re up to date with the live broadcast and yes, previous series (regular and celeb) will be discussed!

Please no spoilers if you read them online!

The story so far (as of end of episode 1)

Traitors
Maya Jama
Richard E Grant

Faithful
Bella Ramsey
James Blunt
Jerry Hall
Joanne McNally
Joe Lycett
Julie Hesmondhalgh
King Kenny
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Michael Sheen
Miranda Hart
Myha’la
Professor Hannah Fry
Rob Beckett
Romesh Ranganathan
Ross Kemp
Sebastian Croft
Sharon Rooney

Potential Recruit/Murder
Amol Rajan
James Acaster

Surely the suspense helps to keep you hooked 😉

It has to be Richard.

Then they could recruit and cast suspicion on Hannah & Jerry, would take the attention elsewhere for a couple of days.

The only other glimmer of hope is that James B mentioning Hannah's name as a suspect saves her.

But I'm also here for more Jerry, Rob & Romesh!

James A is going to make a terrible Traitor.

I don’t think he said a single word at the round table and I’m Gob Smacked that nobody picked up on it! Especially as up until his recruitment he had been the loudest one in there accusing REG of being a Traitor.

I got the feeling at one point that Maya is going to stab REG in the back and vote for him!

I hope if REG does go the other Traitors choose to recruit because like I said, James A is going to be crap and Maya will need someone with an evil streak to support her!!

I like Maya but I hope it's not going to be the maya show til the end. That's the one thing I don't like about traitors. It often has one main person that takes over the show and screen time.

Haha! Loved that bit! God bless Miranda!

Don’t forget these round tables last for ages (hours one previous contestant said) so we don’t get to see everyone’s comments.

TRIE reaction podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertainment/id1718287198?i=1000792878840

No Richard for this one but Charlotte (S3) is standing in.

Marina says ratings are off the charts - 9 million tuned in last night compared to 6 million for the first episode last year.

Amol had to go. He was going to turn on them immediately. I think Bella or Romesh would be good.

Who is REG and why is their name in capitals? 🤔

Short for Richard E Grant

Some great behavioural analysis from Hannah at the round table, but I don't think she'll make it much further, being a prime target for murder or banishment right now.

Michael Sheen has definitely turned into the curtains, as he forecast - was he in this episode at all? Sharon is another one keeping a very low profile. They could well be end game players.

Hannah really did say some stuff at the round table, but she probably decided that it could be her last chance, so she might as well.

Who is Sharon?

It has to be Richard banished & Hannah murdered.

My conclusion is that Hannah's fried.

Jerry will be kept.

Agree, I’m amazed no one’s noticed! He’ll be a terrible Traitor because he’s about the only one who said he didn’t want to be one. He looks white as a sheet.

Though I love REG, he’s also been a woeful Traitor. Self-incriminated almost immediately. Then recruited the wrong person. Should’ve murdered James A and recruited Amol.

I’m gutted Amos’s gone. Think he’d’ve been entertaining.

Amol was so good on Uncloaked - I think he would've been a great contestant but I guess we'll never know.

So annoyed at Jerry for not sitting it out with the challenge as I don't want either her or Hannah to leave.

They will have to speed up the disposal rate or we'll have too many left at the end. Which suggests not much banishing Traitors because then they recruit instead of murdering. Of course they could change that or have a mass murder I suppose.

Plus it really does us all good to get away from our instant gratification / bingeing addictions. Life makes everything so instantly accessible these days it is making us greedy and impatient. I love that I can sit down to watch this 'live' with my 14 year old like I did with the big shows in the 80s and 90s with my parents.

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In the grave digging game Ross & Romesh could have decided to leave nearly everyone up for murder, giving each person much lower odds of being murdered. & made a lot more money for the charity pot.

Claudia said they’d prioritised ‘saving people from murder’ but they hadn’t, they and then all the others dug up had chosen to leave just two people to be murdered each with 50% chance.

Jerry should go as she said ‘haggis’ but the Traitors are unlikely to play ‘fair’ and Hannah will be perceived as more likely to catch Traitors so will be murdered. unless they think she’d come under suspicion.

Wonder if James B was pretending to be suspicious or Hannah to seek for the Traitors to keep her in.

Agree James A seemed to change markedly and might find an emotional toll being a Traitor. I would!

I’m quite hopeful for the faithfuls this season!

Love this

Love traitors because it really makes me warm to people I disliked loads earlier. Bella is really smart as well as an excellent actress, yet I thought shed be annoying. Same for Romesh, Rob and even James A, all come across really sweetly and fun. REG seems a plonker, Maya is a fame junkie and I hope they arent editing it to make her more famous, and Ross makes me cringe (has he done any other acting other than being Grant?)*

• For all oldies, now thinking back to the Eastenders xmas tape episode with Sharon and Phil.

Sharon Rooney - she's an actress. They hardly showed her last night though - I probably only glimpsed her on screen once or twice -, a bit more on Wednesday but definitely much less than others. Which is interesting, when you think about it.

Flying under the radar or she lasts a while?

Michael Sheen is definitely keeping a low profile, as he said, i forgot he said.
Agree that Amol was good in uncloaked
also sadly Hannah will probably go

i cant believe we have to wait 5 days