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/

I meant, in theory everyone who signs up for the show might win the money for their charity. If you go in knowing you don't want to be a traitor and couldn't play it properly, you're letting your charity down from the off.

Ok, that’s fair, I was just thinking about myself (I’m not autistic but have suffered with anxiety for a long long time) and how it might have impacted me.

Thinking back to a poster on here who said she’s autistic and she can see where James A is coming from and all the people junping on the bandwagon to say he shouldn’t have applied…it seems a bit unpleasant?

But they’re not ‘using charities’. No one has mentioned a charity so far. From what I remember last year, we only heard what Alan Carr’s charity was after he’d won…?

Is there anything on record about which part of Bristol she’s from? I’m from Bristol too and left at a similar age to her, though I’m a fair bit older than her!

I’m still confused why there will be a murder offscreen when the traitor was ousted. They never usually manage this

is it so they can wrap up,the series

Who on earth would compare getting £40k or whatever for a couple of weeks TV work with human trafficking?

I don't think it makes much difference in the scheme of things as there's only one winner whatever happens.

We will have to agree to disagree on that.

Ok, I’m sorry

I do wonder how it came about that James confessed. It was edited as if he was caught but he wasn’t really. Surely it would have been better for him to blunder and show himself up as a traitor rather than confess. I can only think he must have confessed during his panic and they couldn’t show that sp production had to cobble something together (including his confession) that resembled what happened.

Maya grew up around Stokes Croft before moving to the Cotham and Redland area, where she attended Cotham School. Does this mean she would drop the second T?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr4ypw5v9n6o?app-referrer=deep-link

There was a lot of editing going on at that Round Table. I saw a clip on X were Bash and Romesh looked shocked at James A saying he was a traitor. But you could see the top of Romesh’s slate and it had a J on it. So the expression was editing into footage before the vote was announced by Claudia.

And if you were someone who was fit enough, trained for it and already did half marathons, and then had to pull out through injury half a mile before the end?

I don't think I can explain it any further.

That's bad luck, and analogous to the other contestants who've been banished or murdered.
I don't see what point you think you're making or winning.

I don't think it would be possible to. I understand what you are saying and I disagree.

First , thanks to @CaveMum for the threads. You’re a True Faithful 👏

Second, haven’t RTFT yet as only just joining. But I’m still fuming with James A being presented on Uncloaked as ‘being true to himself’, ‘playing the game in his own, unique way’, ‘still playing as a Faithful, leaving breadcrumbs etc’, ‘deciding from recruitment he’d out himself’, ‘didn’t he do well lasting so long’, ‘won’t it make a better final’ blah blah.

He broke the naffing rules, lied and has been the most treacherous of them all!

Because he chose to take - and chose to break - the Traitor’s Oath:

• Do you commit to lie and deceive throughout the game?
• Are you willing to murder your fellow players every single night?
• And do you vow to keep your identity and the identity of your fellow players a secret?

He also argued to be recruited, resulting in Amol’s early murder, when instead he could’ve said it’s not for him and been murdered himself. Amol was keen to be a Traitor and IMHO would’ve played by the rules and been a lot more entertaining.

Or, at any time the stress was getting too much, he could’ve told his fellow Traitors and they could’ve encouraged his banishment - to give the Faithful a bit of red, traitor meat. Or he could’ve just left the show ‘for personal reasons’ without any fuss and they could’ve recruited.

Instead, he’s done the dirty on Maya, who’s played so well. She should’ve thrown him under the bus herself. But was likely too loyal, kind and/or aware of not wanting to put him under such pressure. A courtesy he didn’t return.

I think her only chance (now James A has vindicated the bungling Michael and James B on their ‘quiet ones’ witch-hunt) is to murder Bash and convince Leigh-Anne and Rom (who’s already suspicious) that Michael and James B are the remaining two Traitors. Argue that last night was Traitor-on-Traitor and they’re coming for her to save themselves. If she instead murders Michael, James B will lead the charge in coming for her.

Come on Maya! Start the fight back.

CaptainMyCaptain · Today 17:52
I don't think it makes much difference in the scheme of things as there's only one winner whatever happens.

Sorry to be pedantic, but there can be more than one winner.

If Kenny and Maya are still there at the end then they both win.
If no Traitors get to the end then the Faithfuls left standing share the prize.

Cut him some slack

ducks

Same.

Not sure, but I think she's done really well for herself as a self made woman coming from a not at all privileged background. Father in and out of prison throughout her childhood, mother had her at 18, worked multiple jobs to raise her without a lot of money and without her dad, obviously. It seems like Maya built her own media career from the ground up through self started projects and sheer hustle. It doesn't bother me at all that she drops her t's (I know it wasn't you that said that)

To be honest, I don’t think that Maya deserves to win. She and Richard brought two potential people in to be traitors or be killed who were not the right people, obviously. They were both people who suspected Richard, which is not the way to play the game - they needed to choose someone else who could be killed to cause suspicion on someone else - one of Bella/Ross or Rob/Romesh might have been a much better choice. Richard had thrown himself under the bus and the sensible thing to do in Maya’s position would be to say to him that they should enjoy the chance to make a distraction and see what happened, rather than trying to take people out who suspected Richard, because there were more than two people who would obviously vote for him if there wasn’t other information there. Maya’s choices as the lead traitor throughout have been a bit basic, but the reality is that the contestants have all been a bit basic and keen to be “nice” and lie low until the end, which is to be fair the best faithful tactic, but doesn’t make for good TV. I think that the show has lacked people with a more competitive urge, Ross aside (who I loved) - could have done with some sports people. I think that Joe Marler, Tom Daly or Nick Mohammed would have found Maya quite easily.

I feel for James- he so obviously wanted to be a faithful and didn’t consider how he would cope as a traitor. It was perfectly fair for him not to want to be eliminated early on and fight for his life, then regret it. It doesn’t sound as if he got the right support either if he was struggling - he did say that he got told off for telling his partner on his allowed phone call that he’d caught the sun because they were doing a task outside, which is somewhat OTT.

I can’t wait for tonight’s episode to start so posters have something new to talk about that doesn’t revolve around James A.

Also, those complaining about James letting his charity down - surely, if the alternative argument is that he should have let amol be recruited and fall on his sword, the charity was nowhere near getting the cash anyway. Most of the chosen charities won’t win the money

Thanks @Choux and @CraftySeal for the info on Maya’s background, she’s from a different part of Bristol to me and that would explain the softer accent - there are aspects that will always come out though like the aforementioned loss of a T and the infamous addition of the Bristol L at the end of many words!