Welcome to the castle - it gets worse here every day | 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 4 [TV Pace]

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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 at end of episode 4)

Traitors (still active)
Maya Jama
James Acaster (recruited)
Professor Hannah Fry (recruited)

Faithful

James Blunt
Jerry Hall
Joanne McNally
Joe Lycett
King Kenny
Michael Sheen
Miranda Hart
Sebastian Croft
Sharon Rooney

Up for Murder
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Rob Beckett
Romesh Ranganathan
RossKemp (full name)

Murdered
Amol Rajan
Bella Ramsey

Banished
Richard E Grant (Traitor)
Myha’la
Julie Hesmondhalgh

Both Traitors looked so relieved to have Kenny join them, it will definitely change the energy and give them a boost. I wouldn't have recruited Joanne either, she's such a wild card, and could easily have implicated one of the other traitors by accident.

Feel like Romesh and Miranda are the 2 most influential faithfuls - will they listen to Sebastian's theories?? He's not really pushing any of his insights hard, although he has been on the right track, and is wisely staying under the radar.

Thank you! It’s driving me crazy that they all seem to think it’s gospel that it can only have been Hannah or Jerry as recruits. Even Hannah wasn’t correcting them on that! Any one of them could have been recruited - it’s almost weird that they DID choose Hannah so she wouldn’t have been my first thought as a faithful looking for recruits

James A seems to be finding it all a bit much

This is just nasty.

Gutted Rob has left, he was my favourite 😞

Loved James A comparing Kenny to someone starting at a job, where you know they'll be really competent while you can just stand there with a broom.

Wonder how James A will handle a direct question about whether he's a traitor, given his policy of not lying. Has anyone asked him outright yet?

Its a pity its only on two days a week.

My favourites are
Ross - because he is so desperate to stay and be proved a faithful.
Joe - he seems just a genuinely nice person.
Joanne - scatty and funny. She brings much needed lightness to the show.
Maya - I feel sorry for her, she has carried the traitors so far.
James B - his ridiculous theories, his amazing clothes, he's great.
Jerry - love her scattiness and humour.

Not so pleased with
James A - the point of the game is be either a faithful or a traitor. He shouldn't have gone on the show. I really feel he's dragged it down.
Miranda - I've never found her show funny so I'm biased but she was mean at the second last round table to a fellow faithful when Julie was voted off.
LeighAnn - doesn't make an impression.

Bash - don't know who he is and Romesh flicks between quite funny to too serious.

Quite glad Hannah has gone really. Same reason as James A - she should have gone on the show only if she was willing to be either a faithful or a traitor. Would like James A to go next.

If you don’t know James A, watch Repertoire on Netflix. It’s so so funny. He is quite deadpan and awkward, but also very wry, and a good story teller. He obviously wanted to be a faithful and, well, he’s doing the best he can. I’m still finding his reluctant traitor thing amusing.

King Kenny is going to be great! I think they did need to recruit rather than murder. Can’t wait to see Joe’s face tmw!

Also Hannah and her formulae!!! She had some bad luck but oh they would have murdered her as a faithful anyway. Too good.

Why did neither Rob nor Hannah turn up to Uncloaked. Just old interviews shown... Ed didn't even explain or acknowledge that they weren't there

Maybe they were genuinely unavailable - both busy people. Maybe they'll show up on another episode.

I’m surprised they didn’t show Maya’s round table speech on ‘Uncloaked’. She was basically saying in plain sight how good Hannah was as a traitor!

Agree. I really do not warm to her.

Think Kenny is a good recruit, but I stand by my earlier comments, that Jerry would be a phenomenal traitor, exes with both Mick Jagger and Rupert Murdoch, enough said.

I'm a bit worried for Ross. He looks so down. It must be awful as a faithful to be constantly under suspicion simply for being a good faithful. Joanne is TATSP .

What is TATSP please?

I don’t see that at all! She hasn’t had to do anything, as no one suspects her, other than to throw fellow--traitors under the bus when not doing so would have drawn undue attention to her. She may turn out to be very good, but nothing has been demanded of her so far.

he looks under stress

I am not sure why Maya says I instead of we when talking about traitors,ie, i need another traitor

I agree she looked emotional but I don't know if that was about wanting to win. I think she just really didn't want to go so soon.

I love Hannah's hair... Maybe even more than I love Claudia's.

She really isn’t, you know. I’ve seen her handle a huge auditorium with a difficult heckler and she was razor sharp and on the ball. She has a UCD degree and a background in the charity sector before starting to write after she had a nervous breakdown — all her early stand-up comedy is viciously dark, about her bulimia and being adopted.

Her comedy isn’t my thing at all, but she’s no fool.

I'm sure some of the others know Roman numerals and can do basic maths!

but there was pressure with the roman numerals and hannah has the confidence

Just listened to TRIE, Richard and Marina not impressed with the Death March task!

They also had an interesting discussion around the stories in the papers about some of the celebs complaining about the restrictions put on them re phoning home, etc.

Marina has no sympathy - you’re getting paid very well and you knew the terms when you signed up!

Richard a bit more understanding and saying there’s probably a middle ground.

Worth a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertainment/id1718287198?i=1000796497920

And as I said on the last thread, Marina if you’re reading - drop us a hint on the podcast!

I think she also just didn't want to go that way. She really wanted to be a faithful and use her strategies to sniff the traitors out. Imagine if she'd had her moment in game to explain that she'd been using Alan Turing's own techniques to figure stuff out, it would have been glorious. She would have had no chance of winning, far too clever to avoid murder, but she would have been a real all-time favourite faithful. I think everyone on Uncloaked was sad that she didn't get that chance to shine; they were all saying what an amazing faithful she'd be. I feel the same!

It's all Jerry's fault! Think of the TV we lost because Hannah got recruited!

I feel Rob was more than happy to go early and get home; he has a lot of offers and doesn’t seem to commit eg on radio 2 he started off live and had funny interactions with Tony Blackburn but that soon changed to recorded shows before he left.

the only ones giving entertainment / value to me are:
James B
Ross
Romesh
Jerry
Maya
Kenny (better as a faithful)

I’ve gone off Miranda, her galloping with Bash gave me the ick

It means thick as two short planks. Rude and wrong in this case I think.

i found Miranda galloping really funny! she’s just having so much fun in there.