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/

Hannah is good in Uncloaked. She seems more comfortable and less nervous.

I still think Miranda sounds a little scared of Joanne. Joanne reminds me of the kind of woman you're scared of saying the wrong thing to in a club toilets when you're drunk and think you're being funny.

DS has just started at Alexander's old.college, am hoping he attends.some events so I can meet him!

I wonder if the early success with REG and then catching Hannah has given them delusions of ability?

Both Miranda and Hannah are good on Uncloaked

Miranda is so lovely. Brilliant

Love Miranda as well.

Oh 100% or you express a perfectly reasonable opinion at a dinner table and jumps on you

I had forgotten about Miranda vomiting in the cabin! The way she recounted it was hilarious 😆

The Kooples

I really don’t like Joanne.

That is a brilliant description of Joanne, though she was better this episode.

Age-old story of women at the table. The patriarchy bears down on you if you stop being agreeable.

Shame she didn’t fight and remind the silly billies of the previous times they’ve got it wrong. They’ve banished woman after woman. The only men were REG and Lycett, who both (literally in Lycett’s case) asked for it.

And the loudest man is listened to even when he repeatedly demonstrates his inability to pick a traitor - see also Stephen Fry last year.

Miranda was brilliant on Uncloaked.

I’m not bothered who goes so the cliffhanger wasn’t very exciting. I don’t see how the traitors can lose now but I’d be fine with them winning (now Miranda’s not there to win it).

Just what I thought!

yes!

it bugs me every year!i

I'm sure there was someone last year who was a faithful for most of it and got voted out first night at a recruited traitor - it just felt so wrong when they stood up and said they were a traitor

They do all that “and always have been” so why don’t they say how long they’ve been a traitor if they were recruited

Pressure is off for her. She was on a hopeless journey as a traitor right from the start.

Mark Bonnar still hot af.

Thread filling at a rapid pace again. Good chatting with you folks and see you at Breakfast.

Stay Faithful!

I honestly think there's a bit of 'pretty privilege' going on. More than one person has mentioned how Maya is so beautiful and glam (so can't be a traitor) but they'll go for Julie and Sharon who aren't conventionally attractive. Hannah is somewhat different as it was pretty obvious she had to be a Traitor. Maya says little, often looks a bit suspicious but is never on the radar. Its classic traitorism and she's doing it well.
They've only caught REG who literally told them he was a traitor, and Hannah who was backed into a corner as a recruit. They need to accept they're getting it very wrong.

I don't understand why none of them have thought harder about the logistics of Ross's murder.

I've loved Sharon - she's been pretty smart (certainly compared to the others) despite clearly being a little overwhelmed at first.

Hard to see how Kenny can lose - such a good player.

I agree completely except "they" don't know who "they"are. The faithfuls can't come up with a strategy as they don't all know who they are. That's why it's so frustratingly watchable for me.

I think Sharon wants to leave.

This is true. I appreciate that we only see the edit but the faithful rarely seem to realise or acknowledge that the likelihood is there's at least one traitor in each car or each room at any one time.