Welcome to the castle - watch it bring you to your knees | 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 5 [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 6)

Traitors (still active)
Maya Jama
James Acaster (recruited)
King Kenny (recruited)

Faithful

James Blunt
Jerry Hall
Joanne McNally
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Michael Sheen
Miranda Hart
Romesh Ranganathan
RossKemp (full name)
Sebastian Croft
Sharon Rooney

Murdered
Amol Rajan
Bella Ramsey
Rob Beckett

Banished
Richard E Grant (Traitor)
Myha’la
Julie Hesmondhalgh
Professor Hannah Fry (recruited Traitor)
Joe Lycett

For these that want to keep up with Claudia’s outfits: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a73628412/celebrity-traitors-claudia-winkleman-outfits/

No. He runs away in a hilarious manner 😂

Jerry also said she knew she was going, as when she walked into a room, it would go quiet.

I don’t understand the sudden Jerry love. She was ok, but I won’t particularly miss her. I never thought she was very attractive, even when younger. But I do admire that she hasn’t gone down the having work done route.

I’m finding this series so much less believable than last year’s. There are so many lucky coincidences, total changes of direction at the round table, and just strange behaviour.

He wasn't there. He was murdered.

Felt a bit sorry for Leigh-Anne! As she said, she was just trying to do something to cheer Miranda ☹️

Sadly, if I was a Faithful, think I’d go for Leigh-Anne:

• Exhibit 1: Lipstick at bedtime
• Exhibit 2: Crypts
• Exhibit 3: Causing a distraction on the night of the MIPS

She needs to come out fighting and go for Joanne (who spread the lipstick theory and done other sketchy stuff).

I’m well-impressed Rosskemp got two Traitors straight off the bat! Must have well-developed Spidey sense from his time in danger zones.

It makes most sense to murder Miranda so that people become suspicious of Joanne, but then I wonder if that would be too obvious.

Yeah I’m disappointed in Leigh-Anne, she has been very meh like a wet fish. She hasn’t added anything to the game!

For those tracking clothes - I was delighted to see Miranda wearing a Joanie cardigan at the round table!

On another note, I hope Bash or Romesh go tonight. Nothing against them, I just really love Miranda!

And I think the heart has gone out of Romesh anyway.

If I was production crew I’d have kicked Acaster off. Hes spineless and a bore. He is spoiling the game for everyone else.

Totally agree

Oh, I think Maya and Kenny will gang up on him now, after today...

I was hoping Leigh-Ann would defend herself a bit more robustly as Sheen was really going for her and she looked like she might even get upset, but then it suddenly didn’t matter because they all swung to Jerry. I agree the table edit was weird tonight.

Rosskemp on Uncloaked was certainly too full of his own sense of importance (am assuming he doesn’t actually broker the meets on his docu or plan any of the trips…he’s a presenter who got the gig due to portraying an East End thug). However kudos where it’s due for being the only person so far to mention Maya, IIRC.

At the beginning of the task I sympathised with James A for being nervous of having a go, but by the end I was yelling at him in frustration. It was quite a fun task to watch just because it was actually new and many of them are recycled every series. But Maya and Kenny really seemed to struggle.

Thursday nights are the best - we get to watch one and then not wait too long til it’s on again 🤣

Or to their teeth.

I like Joanne but agree with this.
I don't know if its how it is edited but Joanne seems nice in her podcast. Apart from being quick with quips, when she and Vogue answer listener's questions, they are both really balanced and nice.
I'm going to assume its the editing as well as Joanne being very loud. The other thing is when people are loud at the round tables, it means fewer people are likely to put their name forward as they don't want it to get uncomfortable.
Miranda shouldn't have backed down if she believed Joanne was a traitor, which she obviously still does think that as she chatted to Leigh Anne about it.
Miranda was quite forceful at other round tables so the whole thing was edited badly (again) and we didn't see the full thing.

Do you think they try not to show people too negatively? My guess is they do?

Jerry made me laugh when she insisted James B was a traitor as his face is always so red. Nope that is what pink, pasty people who live in a wet and cold climate look like :)

I think James A broke the 'Traitors Code' and should be removed from the show.

He has been with the British forces in active war zones whilst making his documentaries, yes.

Joanne spoke about it in her Instagram stories tonight. She is embarrassed by how she snapped at Miranda. She said she felt like Miranda was gaslighting her and it got inside her head.

She says they have laughed about it since.
She could have chosen to ignore it or said it was just a game etc so credit to her for talking about it tonight and being embarrassed.

Hmm. Maybe. But I've seen her on several other shows and got the same vibe.

But this is so big, she apologised in case it affects her career...

I took it at face value.
She could have laughed it off but didn't.
She comes across as being nice on her podcast and I've been listening for a long time.

I very much see it as a tactical apology rather than a genuine one. But hey ho!

As an aside, I tend to think performative apologies are stupid . It's a TV show, there's another episode tomorrow everyone moves on, but by apologising she's made it a bigger deal than it was. You see it all the time. Foolish.

Doesn't James Blunt live in Ibiza or something? His dyed hair is terrible.

He's beginning to look like he was made by Jim Henson

I thought it was mean of Joanne and I wondered if Miranda didn’t mention Maya because of similar mean girl vibes/intimidation. Seems very odd that she would just talk to Joanne and not mention Maya on other side?

Weird how Maya doesn’t seem to ever get any attention from anyone.

Think James A got off lightly in the turret and think he’s a bit of a spoilsport and a wimp!

I wonder if the Faithfuls will figure out that if Jerry and Ross are Faithfuls, likely at least one of the other two in the library were Traitors.
But they don't seem to have figured that out.