Welcome to the castle - When your fears subside, and the shadows still remain…| 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 7 [TV Pace]

[CaveMum]

Oh my god, how did you lot fill that last thread up so fast?!

Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5592483-welcome-to-the-castle-we-got-everything-you-wantwe-know-the-names-2026-celebrity-traitors-thread-6-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 9)

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

Faithful
James Blunt
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Michael Sheen
Romesh Ranganathan
Sebastian Croft

Murdered
Amol Rajan
Bella Ramsey
Rob Beckett
RossKemp
Miranda Hart

Sharon Rooney

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

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

The prize money going to charity is only incidental, though! It’s to try to have the celebrity version relocate as far as possible the normal version, otherwise there would ve no reason to have missions to build a prize pot. It’s not a fundraising show, or a show for charity, it’s a light entertainment programme which casts people who by and large work in the entertainment industry, for whom it is another paying gig, albeit a bit different to the usual.

Well, quite. And I'd be very interested to know from the naysayers on this thread what proportion of their earnings they donate to charity, whether they are a trustee or a patron of a charity, whether they actively fundraise for their chosen charity, whether they volunteer to man fundraising stalls or in charity shops, and whether, if they decided to raise money by doing (for instance) the London Marathon, just how bad they'd feel if they had to pull out before the end.

In which case they shouldn't be 'using' charities at all. Or the 'winner/s - give money to a charity announced at the end.

Me too!

I wasn’t criticising her, it was more an observation that this was acceptable to everyone whereas a man acknowledging his status has wound people up.

I really want Romesh to win. I hope Maya doesn't as she has been such a boring traitor.
she did make me laugh yesterday, her face when MS was droning on about how he has single handily caught James A....

But unless he is extremely dishonest and just went on for the money (no evidence that was the case), he clearly didn’t know. No one would put themselves through panic attacks if they knew that was going to happen.

You may have known you wouldn’t cope, he didn’t.

Yep and Joe L was barely on it due to his pub show filming.

But all celebrity versions of tv game/quiz shows with a monetary prize get their contestants to each nominate a charity before it starts. Traitors is no different in that respect.

The thing I like most about Celeb Traitors (and Taskmaster, for that matter) is that the celebs taking part reveal themselves as the people they really are - they cannot keep up a character or persona (see Richard Ayoade on the current Taskmaster slowly losing his adopted character, for instance).

I am sure James A thought he knew what he was getting into - he may have (slightly arrogantly) thought that he could say he would only be a faithful and that would be it.

Whatever, the thing is that no two series (of both shows) are the same - it would be boring if they were. It's seeing how it unravels (literally in this case) which is the entertainment.

@lettingthedaysgoby I agree, and it's one reason why people assume actors are going to be good at being a Traitor, when they invariably turn out to be rubbish. Actors are good at playing a character when they have a script to follow.

Well, I didn't see James A going like that, but it might just have saved Maya. If she and Kenny murder Michael, then I'm not sure James Blunt has quite the stranglehold on the other faithfuls that he does. I could see Kenny managing to deflect enough heat away from him and Maya that at least one of them wins.

On balance, after this series, I think I prefer Celeb Traitors to normal Traitors. The fact that some of them know each other and no one is trying to hide who they are (other than the obvious) makes for more entertaining dynamics...

If an activity for charity like one of these involved me doing something I was fairly sure I couldn't do – let's say running a marathon – I would not sign up to it, get people on board/have people expecting me to turn up, and then quit early/underperform. Because I know I'd feel awful if I did have to pull out before the end and leave the charity up a gum tree.
James A, knowing he would not want/be able to be a traitor, nonetheless signed up for the show also knowing it wasn't 100% guaranteed that he wouldn't have to be one.

He didn't know he'd have a panic attack, but he DID know it was possible that he might have to play as a traitor.

White , middle/ upper class male and people automatically assume you are intelligent.
Really pisses me off

James A and Maya - If you are going to be a traitor , it would be great if they would both remember that there is a second T in the word traitor . Kenny is the only traitor who pronounced that second T

I fell off the thread as we were away for half term. All caught up now. WTF James. Excited for tonight!

Please let this happen 🙏🏻

Is anyone else getting peeved at Maya saying 'Trai er' every 30 seconds with absolutely no sign of the second T? I mean occasionally it's fine but not every single time when her accent otherwise isn't pure mockney. I am going to banish her for that reason alone.

Not that any of the celebs have asked me for advice.

Checking in now and at everyone still frothing about James A. I know some think he ruined the show but I feel like the series would have been very unmemorable without him doing what he did last night. Crap Faithfuls this year and even crapper Traitors - and I’m talking about Maya and Kenny not James A. Kenny voting for Sharon when he has the double note. FFS. It was so stupid I think it must have been staged. And Maya was just so dull. I think on balance, I’ll be happy if Romesh wins and I don’t care one way or the other about anyone else.

Been lurking on here since it started and just wanted to say that whatever happens tonight, I hope people lay off James A.

I honestly don’t think he meant to sabotage the game; he has looked quite uncomfortable for a while.

He is quoted in Radio Times as saying outing himself as a Traitor was always his plan. So I don't buy that. Sorry.

I take it more as her Bristol accent coming out!

Yes it’s awful.

Somebody had to go anyway so it might as well have been him. I don't see the problem. It makes no difference to the amount given to charity whether the Faithfuls choose a random to banish or a Traitor outs himself.

Yes, so do I.

Me too.