Welcome to the castle - We got everything you want…we know the names | 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 6 [TV Pace]

[CaveMum]

Bloody hell, you lot filled that last thread up faster than I expected!

Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5591799-welcome-to-the-castle-watch-it-bring-you-to-your-knees-2026-celebrity-traitors-thread-5-tv-pace?page=1

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 8)

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

Faithful

James Blunt
Joanne McNally
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Michael Sheen
Romesh Ranganathan
Sebastian Croft
Sharon Rooney

Murdered
Amol Rajan
Bella Ramsey
Rob Beckett
RossKemp
Miranda Hart

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

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

Checking in!

Maybe Joanna threatened, in the toilets, to beat Miranda, if she didn't take back in her creaky floorboard theory?

That'd fit the bully theory and explain why Miranda rescinded her theory.

(More seriously, isn't it odd no one seems to be giving it more thought - Michael even said the floorboards moving (in a task they were trying to detect movement) it wasn't anything.)

Another thing the faithfuls might finally hone in on: they know Ross was in the library for a while before being murdered in plain sight. He was in there with Jerry who is now known to be faithful plus Maya and James A. Perhaps someone might start wondering if he was murdered in the library by one of them?

I think Miranda said on uncloaked that Joanne’s reaction made her think even more “yes she’s definitely a traitor” but she therefore tried to pretend she’d changed her mind and had decided Joanne def wasn’t a traitor, to reassure her she was trusted, so “traitor Joanne” wouldn’t murder Miranda. She was trying to get close and trusted again with her and pretend her suspicions had gone away.

That would require them to think!
Theories like late evening lipstick application are way more compelling.

😆 that’s probably it!

And yes, how absurd that nobody has twigged that Ross was in the library with Jerry the faithful and two other people for ages the night he was murdered in plain sight?? You couldn’t make it up, just like when they didn’t seem to care that neither Hannah or Jerry got murdered when they should have! It just seems so unlikely and contrived.

This!

On Uncloaked Miranda said she backtracked and 'debunked' the floorboard theory so quickly because she was so certain Joanne was a Traitor after her reaction, that she thought it best to keep her on side to avoid being murdered!

If Michael and Romesh are murdered it will make for extremely dull viewing from that point on. I don't want the traitors to win (unlike last year) but its looking inevitable to me.

I don’t know why they left the cliffhanger where they did, I’d speculate that maybe we are about to get fireworks and Kenny has changed his vote (as I said earlier, not the sensible thing to do). One thing is for sure, right now there are 10 (soon to be 9) players left and End Game is only supposed to have 5 players. Thats a lot to get rid of over 1.5 episodes!

Has there ever been a double banishment/murder?

Thanks for the new thread.

It was interesting to listen to The Rest is Entertainment and to hear Marina saying what we have all been saying about Sharon feeling overlooked by the men.

They really need to get rid of Bash and Sheen, possibly Romesh too - they’re the clever ones left. Blunt gets everything wrong and Joanne and Leigh Ann are pretty clueless so, for the traitors they’d be good to have in at the end.

Romesh is such a treasure. Every time he opens his mouth he says something hilarious (and it never seems forced or overly considered).

So I hope he gets to stay until the end.

I was away last week and only just caught up, so I’m sure this has been sent 1 million times on previous threads but why were Maya and Kenny SO soft on James A after the task? I was expecting them to go mental on him in the turret – though admittedly that’s not the way either roll - but they seem to have just shrugged and gone oh well and got home with it. If I was M or K I would either be plotting with the other, or at least on my own, to get James out before the end because he really doesn’t deserve a win and at this stage a win for the traitors seems inevitable

And James B is probably the most clueless faithful ever

I like Sharon, she was very astute and she was overlooked 😡

well lets not forget it is for charity
although of course prestige comes into it

I’d love to see Kenny vote out Joanne. I much prefer Sharon. I hated the way her views were discarded by the men. I’m not liking Michael Sheen at all.

Jessie said it on Uncloaked too.

Surely James A. has been a rather successful Traitor so far? He’s survived. Why would the other two rock the boat - particularly now he’s begun to enjoy murdering?

they are showing the final at my local cinema!

Did anyone notice what Michael said at the round table before they all voted Jerry out? Can’t remember if that was two episodes ago or last week. He said something about needing to get rid of the weaker people and they should all think about that. And then suddenly they all vote for Jerry. I can’t remember his exact words but I thought it was quite rude! Especially as Jerry was then voted out when it really looked like there was more evidence for Leigh-Anne.

@CaveMum It feels like there has been a double murder at some point in the past - was it the outdoor card game? I could be completely wrong as my memory resembles the proverbial sieve these days!

Yes but the last episode is usually over an hour and possibly 1.5 hours. and the endgame is usually just banishments / votes to banish so it’s doable:

Thursday: Sharon / Joanne exit, then murder, mission then next RT exit = 7 left
Friday: Last murder (this might even be squeezed into Thursday), mission, banishment to get to final 5, last mission then endgame.

Of course if the final 5 includes 3 traitors there is potentially only 2 rounds of banishment needed which will save some time. And make it boring….

Friday’s episode is 80 minutes
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/culture/celebrity-traitors-2026-final-date-when-is-it-bbc-b3072466.html

I want to rewatch the last task I think. It really did seem to me at the time that the group were talking about who to give the power to, a few names went in and then Sharon immediately looked unhappy and from then on kept refusing to say why - it was really annoying. She hadn’t actually said anything to suggest a different name or say “not this person” but just made it very clear she felt she had been left out of the decision. They were still discussing it! She walked off and they asked her several times what she thought and she was all “no no you’ve all decided without me who cares what I think, we should go with the majority, I’m irrelevant” - it was v irritating. If she’d just said “actually James a said he didn’t want it” straight away it would likely have been a different conversation.

I feel a bit disappointed with Michael Sheen. Maybe it's the editing? But he's coming across quite self important and how he turned on Sharon was unpleasant to watch.