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

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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/

I was really looking forward to Micheal Sheen and James B being in this series but they've both been disappointing in how they talk/treat some women.

I agree with the above comments about Sharon being used to being dismissed, and also not having the energy for a confrontation. She wasn't having a tantrum, she was being shut down.

I've loved Joanne (I don't think she's a bully at all), Miranda, Julie and Sharon.

Miranda made sure RossKemp didn't talk over her at one point too - she's well used to it. I might do the same in future when men speak over me! which happens all the time

Absolutely this happens - but I am not at all sure she had any reason to think it was happening here at the task. Assuming that people won’t listen to you, isn’t a good enough reason here to repeatedly refuse to share your thoughts.

Everything after that was the typical traitors “someone acted slightly oddly therefore they might be a traitor” nonsense that happens all the time to everyone.

I was wondering whether they do suspect James A but haven't done anything because of his MH issues. We know that filming was stopped at some stage as he was too stressed. If I were a faithful, I would definitely be wondering why he was particularly stressed and that in itself would be suspicious.

I have a lot of sympathy for Sharon. We heard her say in her VT earlier that she was determined to put her big girl pants on and get her opinions out and yet when she tried, noone listened to her. Sheen & Blunt did present the names as a bit of a done deal.

The majority of the people banished have been women other than Richard and Joe, who both brought it on themselves.

Whoever recommended The Rest Is Entertainment thank you
great listening to the last two episodes and their theories.

I know for a fact it was filmed late April early May. One of the faithfuls is a friend of a friend and couldn't come to their birthday. They didn't say they were doing traitors but it was broadly hinted at 😁

Hmm. I did go right off Michael Sheen when he got with his current partner. I even started a thread on here about it iirc at the time.

He and James Blunt were hateful to Sharon and completely unaware of what they were doing. Such gruesome male privilege. But I was slightly disappointed in her for not fighting a bit harder. She is 37 years old! I was amazed at that.

I'm not sad it's ending next week as I very much feel they are all running out of steam.

I don't want James A to be a winner in the end. I don't hate him or anything, and he does have some redeeming features as a traitor, but really his refusal to participate as a true traitor should means he is less deserving in my mind.

I just hope Kenny and Maya can hold on.

These are all fair points.

James A has a very good reputation. I’ve heard a few players come out saying what a nice, decent man he is.

He seems to be struggling morally with the Traitor role. I wonder if the rumoured panic attack episode actually took place? I don’t think it’s been aired if so.

I enjoy this podcast almost as much as watching the show 😂

They have to get Richard Osman in the castle next series!!

A friend of mine clocked him arriving at Inverness airport on 2 May

The majority of the people banished have been women other than Richard and Joe, who both brought it on themselves.

I was pondering this yesterday. I checked the numbers - there were 11 men and and 10 women to start, and we are now, with 10 people left, at a 6 / 4 split.
Out of 6 banishments, 2 are men, 4 are women, that's a more obvious imbalance than in the 5 murders which are 3 men, 2 are women*.

But at this moment, it's a toss-up as to which of two of the remaining women will be banished, and out of the other two, one has repeatedly been brought up as a possible traitor.

Now the reason someone gets banished is always because the others have got something against them. I don't mean animosity, but just a thing that they have said or done, that can be held up as traitor behaviour.

Murders are different - people are either murdered because they are a threat to the traitors, or because they are no threat at all, and murdering them causes confusion.

So what we've got here is women leaving the game because people are suspicious of them, while men leave the game because people respect them.

*For the purpose if this, I am counting Bella as a woman. Let's not make it a thing.

I don't know why people keep saying Michael is clever. He's not, he's just confidently wrong.
I am a bit less sympathetic to Sharon than some others. When they asked her for her opinion she should have given it, not just been petulant and kept repeating 'just go with the majority'. I also think that she could have explained her 'change in behaviour' by saying what she's been saying in her to-camera interviews: that she's got her Miss Marple on and is focusing in.
I think Kenny will change his vote, purely because if he sticks it's not much of a cliffhanger.

i went off David Olusoga after his attitude last year

We don't know how many times Sharon has been talked over by men and it not been shown in the edit- maybe that task was just the final straw and she couldn't be arsed anymore. I get it.

Me too, he was a bit haughty

And me, sadly . I just think the way he was so wrong all the time gave me the ick and I absolutely loved him before that. As for table-banging Mark Bonner!

Yes, I used to like Mark Bonnar, but he came across as a bit of a dick.

I think so too. You can only be disregarded so many times before you get pissed off with it.

Found you.

I must say that I’ve really warmed to Romesh. I wasn’t much of a fan before but I would love him to win. He just seems like a good guy. And if it has to be a traitor then James A. I would feel the same about not wanting to be a traitor and I never want the traitors to win (even Alan tho he redeemed himself by bursting into tears).

Assumed the reason for Sharon's coyness is that at that stage of the game if you 'reveal your workings' you are likely just tipping off a traitor that you are on to them, and you would be a candidate for murder.

Likewise, at the round table once you see it is going a certain way, there would be little point piping up 'I reckon it's Maya' because unless you can sway the group, you have put a target on your back. Btw are candidates allowed to change their vote as other players reveal who they're voting for?

are candidates allowed to change their vote as other players reveal who they're voting for?
No, they all vote at the same time and then it's 'locked in', as the show's terminology has it.

I have to say, I found Joanna's reaction really very aggressive. It had mean girl vibes - and Miranda looked shell-shocked.

The strength of Joanna's response was as if Miranda was accusing Joanna of something real in real life - not just doing a bit of sleuthing in a game show. I found it OTT and was taken aback. No wonder Miranda backed off. She sort of snarls at times.

Kenny is my favourite traitor. The other two are a bit one trick: just stay safe.

I'd love Sharon to win at this point, (my first choice was the Marvellous Miranda), but I have a feeling they are gunning to get rid of her.

Yes, we are watching what happens to women in the workplace in a game setting. Being talked over, dismissed, older women given less attention, etc etc. James and Michael have been awful.

Michael Sheen has been annoying for a while now - but I am finding him insufferable on this. Some people have really won me over, like Kenny and Bash, and I will love Miranda forever. Jerry Hall too - what a legend.

And then the producers look at them and decide what order to reveal the votes.

Yes I thought this. You wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of her; I find her intimidating .