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

Well she Has been paid handsomely just for being Jerry for most of her life, I doubt she'd change now..

Maya was in the car, so she knows Hannah started that theory.

Thank you - I’d forgotten all about her & I actually really like her as an actress. Don’t think she featured at all!

I really hope Hannah doesn't get murdered.
REG is really unpleasant. what he said to Rob B was just nasty.

I wonder if Richard gets voted out they will recruit and there won’t be a murder- saving Hannah and Jerry?

I thought he said it to deflect attention from the "You said you were a Traitor" business that was coming his way.

From the preious thread discussion about Australia S2

But the woman they'd patronisingly brought in, assuming she was an idiot and they could pull the wool over her eyes, stole what they were certain was victory from them. And then they behaved like the biggest babies in the world.

I read somewhere that the two blokes went off in a sulk and refused to talk to anyone, so the crew got the champagne out and shared it with the woman. Class.

Checking in to new thread. Thank you @CaveMum

This was my favourite ending of any series ever. It was absolutely delicious.

I thought that.

Who says stuff like that? WTF 🤯 so rude.

I hope he goes out, he’s not a nice person.

When some of them were wittering on about how they didn't like it when they had to go into the coffins, DH and I were wondering what on earth they were expecting. Surely if you know anything about traitors you know that there's a hefty chance both that going into a coffin and being buried are going to happen?

I wonder what the producers would have done if Jerry hadn't cried Haggis and they had been dug up along with the others so that there were no candidates for murder?

You've got all of us!

My favourite ever series of traitors. Just such a deserved ending. With Nigel from Australia season 1, being my favourite ever contestant.

Hi 👋 I loved the first two episodes.

I didn’t expect such big names - unlike something like Strictly in recent years. I like having the comedians and I like it is usually more lighthearted/ friendlier than the civilian version. Most of them seem to have prepared well though and are very clued up. However, I like that some (Richard!) are not and are having a super fresh approach. I don’t agree it shows how clever or not he is. He is genuinely just playing how sees fit at the moment.
All day, on the first day, he has been telling people he wants to be a traitor so when later asked if he WAS a traitor it seemed logical to stay in character and say he was - he did consider it before saying it for a few seconds, imo. He probably thought being provocative and mischievous is the way to go, but also didnt expect all the players to suddenly take it so seriously.
I think his mistake was really being so vulnerable with his fellow traitor and leaving important decisions to her. Those decisions all pointed further to him. At the round table he looked quite sad when Maya joined the ‘may be it is R’ bandwagon, and no attempt to deflect.

Maya’s got excellent personality and is very chilled but I don’t think that’s enough to make her a good traitor. I think she was genuinely trying to help Richard but she only tought one move ahead - she had an opportunity to make it more chaotic and less obvious that they are covering Richard.

Hannah is wonderful but the way she spoke at the round table makes her 100% target. If you’re one of two up for murder you keep quiet! If by some chance she is not murdered everybody will think it odd and banish her.

Acaster I liked more than expected. Very observant, very careful what he says, and not a liar or manipulative.

When Bella and LeighAnn were saying that they also wanted to be a traitor - I didn’t get their point at all as to how that proves that Richard is a traitor. I’m sure there’s something there, but didn’t think either of them speaks clearly and convincingly.

The Irish actress is going to be one of the faithfuls that stays till the end because she defends traitors, isn’t she. She was telling Romesh he is 100% not a traitor because he wouldn’t be good at it, and telling Richard he is definitely not one because it would be too obvious - very black and white thinking, very assured of her own judgment.

All the other ones that were speaking made very good points and made it an interesting viewing.

That would only be a problem if Leigh-Anne had actually been a traitor. As it is, Maya might just want to keep her in so that she can keep throwing suspicion on Leigh Anne.

I agree. Surely Maya and James have to throw him under the bus quickly in case he has another brainfart and reveals that they are traitors?

I think REG will be banished. I also hope they murder Jerry over Hannah - Hannah will be far more to useful in tasks.

Ha ha - that's brilliant. What couple of losers.

They have picked bad traitors from the start here. You need somebody very clever as a traitor with a long term strategy and game plan. I think any of Hannah, Amol, Julie, Romesh, James B would have been miles better.

This afternoon duvet sofa traitors catch up (missed last night and family didn't see Ep 1) - that is delicious too!

Ah but where's the hilarity in that.. I like a bit of chaos

I didn’t expect such big names
The last series was a massive hit, and more tellingly, the commitment to this is shorter and easier - only a couple of weeks, where you can put in as much or as little effort as you like, no matter how long you stay. Strictly is months, with potentially masses of hard training.

[Maya] only thought one move ahead
I think she might be better than this, but it was a 'rabbits in the headlight' moment, when they're hardly into the roles, and REG already fucked up.

REG really annoyed me when he gleefully announced that he's a traitor. No impulse control and betraying himself the way he did is going to make him a liability to the other traitors.

They absolutely have to banish him first, and they'd be extremely foolish not to.

I really hope Hannah stays over Jerry. Jerry is not a team player, so I hope the traitors will think about it from the who will be better at missions point of view. Mind you, Hannah will probably get banished next if she doesn't get murdered.

I felt so sorry for Hannah when Jerry bailed within a couple of minutes of being in the coffin. Dispite all her bravado and her crowbar technique she didn’t even try.

Although I’d like to see Hannah last a bit longer the cynic in me wonders if she is manipulating the theory that people of colour get booted off early and has thrown the spurious make up theory out there for people to latch on to.