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

It would be the smart choice - butcI don't think this year's Traitors are smart!

I will be so upset if Bash gets murdered!!!

Sharon and Leigh-Anne are probably the two I’d miss the least.

ps) I love seeing Blunty in his tracksuits and headbands 🤣

I don't know if they will figure out how the murder worked even if they do figure out who did it. It seemed a really silly idea to me.

They could play some music and have a "dance of death" - whoever dances with a traitor. Or something based on Masque of the Red Death, but nobody is going to put a red mask on, or fail to realise what's going on if someone tries to do it! A variation of the fingerprint one, where everyone has a card and the traitors have to mark one.

The yawning was so obviously staged and weird, I don't think anyone in that room would have thought just a normal conversation was going on.

I hope it exposes Maya because although I have nothing against her, I do find her incredibly dull and bland. Joe and Kenny as traitors would have been marvellous.

You’re right about Sharon, She’s so under the radar I forgot she existed. I had to google who this Sharon was that everyone was mentioning 🤭

I don’t think they are going to complete the murder but if they do either Jerry or Ross going wouldn’t bother me. Ross is too much with his paranoia and taking the game far too seriously.

Rosskemp is a bit like Joe Marler was only not as endearing with it !

Funny old thing, Rosskemp was a guest on Joe Marler’s podcast in the summer!

His chat with Richard Osman is great too - it was Richard that got him on Celebrity Traitors in the first place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p19h8l?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

And Maya is starting to express her impatience a little. Didn't she say something like "Come on guys, I can't do this on my own".

Well, why else would they be on the show? In all honesty?

Other than it possibly being fun (though quite often they don't look like they're having much fun). Actually that's one difference for me between this year and last year. Last year they all seemed as though they were having a really good laugh. I know way too much was made of the Celia fart thing, but it was the giggles they all got that made that funny. It might be a difference in the editing of course. Miranda talked about how she had bonded with Joe but we hadn't seen any of that which is a pity. I'd like to see them being daft and talking bollocks. It means the lesser known ones can shine too. I don't think Joe M would have made such an impact if the editing had been like this year's series - and he has done extraordinarily well out of it of course. He was well known in rugby for being a character, but being on the programme meant he got a far bigger audience.

I'm totally rambling.

How many more episodes

I am not a maya fan, she acts as if she is the only traitor, and outside of the turret you never see her talk

I completely agree with the difference in tone with last season-have posted the same before.
I acknowledge a lot of it is editing but it seems so miserable.
Last one they were chatting and laughing and getting to know each other-there was more substance to them individually and they seemed to be having fun.
This time it feels much more forced and I know so little about almost all of them-therefore care much less.

You have made a great point re Joe Marler. He would have been lost in this editing.

I also hate that the game is designed so the quiet/dull ones last.
It is a game but also has to be good telly!!!!

I don’t know, they all seem to be having a good laugh with Romesh.

Ricky has the career James A wishes he had.
And Ricky is guilty of nothing but the truth!

Please leave it. We’ve only just got back on track.

Well, no. On any interpretation James A is currently very successful indeed. It's silly to deny that.

I'm not sure I agree about how Joe would be. He is a man editors love. He is incapable of not garnering screen time.

James A was genuinely caring and nice to Miranda.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

But back to the show, James A isn’t funny or clever he’s just a rubbish traitor. He’s coming across as a bit thick - didn’t he understand what the show was before he signed up? Please can someone banish him 🤞🏼

Yes that's true. Romesh is a properly good laugh.

You can see the stress in James a but I wouldn't call him boring or less deserving

Kenny is going to be a very active Traitor. Maybe too active?

How can someone be a rubbish traitor if they are still there and no one has even vaguely suspected them?

Exactly. She’s brilliant, completely under the radar.

I agree, her yawning was very forced. Although in previous series of traitors people were suspicious of anyone that was overly tired because they put it down to being up late in the turret. So the yawning will either bring suspicion because people think it's fake or people thinks it's genuine and query why she's so tired.

Agree I find her bland and boring have no idea why people think she's playing such a great game.