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

They aren't staying in the castle. They're in a hotel about a 40 min drive away. They can't leave until production say they can leave, so my guess is they could stay in there for hours until someone cracks and yawns

I think Joe would have been as bad a traitor as Richard. Too keen on the role to hide it.

Who’s Ed?

Presumably Ed Gamble who hosts Traitors Uncloaked which airs straight after.

I agree, but it is a yawn less catching if it is covered? I thought you have to be an empath to catch a yawn and Ross is not coming across as that type of personality.

Maya is astonishingly beautiful but my goodness doesn’t she know it? 🤣

I don’t think that Maya comes across too badly.
She is that generation though where it’s all about the looks and the attitude isn’t it, so can’t blame her for that. She is very confident.

I wasn’t keen on Maya before but I like her now. She looks different in the face though for some reason (to when I saw her on Love Island) but can’t put my finger on why.

I’ll never understand how anyone couldn’t like Miranda! I just think she’s brilliant - very genuine, funny, exactly as you’d expect. Big Mix was brilliant. It’s like getting little snippets of a Miranda show but on The Traitors. Really hope after this she does a new series.

Agree with people who said it was edited to look like Ross had noticed something going on when he probably didn’t notice a thing. I also think it’s probably not Jerry going unfortunately, because the editing was suggesting too obviously that it would be.

If I was that beautiful I think I would know it too.

They stay in the Inverness airport Marriott, apparently. Which must, these days be block-booked for much of the year with the cast and crew of various iterations of Traitors!

I’m always intrigued by the mysterious upstairs of the castle. Presumably there’s space up there for the contestants to change into their mission gear, but most of it must be production space. There are a lot of people on that set all the time that the viewer never sees! I think I read somewhere last year that each contestant has an individual person looking after their welfare, quite apart from everyone else!

Do you think those 2 were directed towards the room, can they not go to another room?

Why would they not want to go to that room? It had two empty chairs and the other rooms were full up. Sharon was invited into the room and said no and - fortunately for Kenny - dragged him off with her. TBH I doubt production guided Jerry and Ross there because both are good value and they'd ideally have held on to both

Isn't that the room where the perfume bottle was, that James A had already spotted days earlier?

I think Jerry said something about it being too busy in the other room.

I hope they failed to make anyone yawn and there’s no murder. It would be interesting at breakfast if Claudia then tells them the traitors tried and failed to murder in plain sight the previous evening.

It would be quite funny if breakfast involved everyone speculating about touches or glances or weird phrases or yawns!

I won’t give any spoilers, because last year the BBC showed Traitors Ireland after the Celebrity one, but in this season, the victim of a murder in plain sight says ‘Are you trying to murder me?’

It would be even more funny if Ross keeps going on and on about the yawning and everyone things he's being paranoid again, so don't believe him.

Does anyone know how I can find where Kenny’s white and blue top is from?
I’ve hunted and potentially boohoo man but it’s not on the website at the moment and can’t find it second hand anywhere!

Actually I take that all back, I’ve found it! It’s not boohoo man at all 😂
although it’s out of stock everywhere.

That’s it! I knew he had to put something on her face.

😃 All bug-eyed and mad-looking. ‘I swear to God, James A and Maya were yawning at me! It definitely meant something! They were bent on murder!’

’There, there, Ross — what about a little lie down?’

They must watch this back with their head in their hands ! Lol
Mind you, they know the ending, so probs put it all together months ago thinking back and so on! Or having a chat amongst themselves maybe !
Must be rules around it all.

They don't all know the ending, only the people who make it to the final know. Some may tell others stuff but they will have signed NDAs not to do so. The rest will have a screening on the day or the day before to find out.

I saw amol as a guest on something and I’m 99.9% certain he said he knew the ending!

I don't think she is astonishingly beautiful