Welcome to the castle - Sometimes we get burned, you’d think sometime we’d learn | 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 8 [Post Final Chat]

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This is a post-Final thread so if you haven’t seen it do not read on!

Finalists
Maya Jama (Traitor)
King Kenny (recruited Traitor)
James Blunt
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Romesh Ranganathan
Sebastian Croft

Murdered
Amol Rajan
Bella Ramsey
Rob Beckett
RossKemp
Miranda Hart
Sharon Rooney
Michael Sheen

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

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

Anyone could work out that the murder could not possibly have been committed by spraying perfume on Ross. We all know that he would instantly have started squawking about how he had been murdered.

He’s just so unlikeable in every way.

Writing something like that. Honestly, get a grip.

I found the ending very satisfying. I don't think any of the traitors really deserved to with, whereas Bash definitely did as he was so perceptive about Kenny and managed to persuade Romesh to change his vote, and Romesh had the sense to listen to him. I loved both their choices of charity.

Oh, these awful autistic people, how very dare they infest your screen and fail to meet your entertainment demands.

I think people are being really unfair.

It is all very well to say in theory that the game is "about lying and betrayal," but it would be very different being in there, knowing the other players, forming friendships and having to betray. Yes, of course it's the game, but most of us (I hope!) don't have much practice of what that feels like - and it isn't just spread over one afternoon. It is a sustained thing.

I think he is just upright and inclined to honesty. He KNOWS that about himself, which is why he wanted to be a faithful. He tried to rise to the deceitful challenge in his own fashion when the role was thrust on him, but it just didn't work. He was the wrong choice of Traitor.

I'm not going to villify him for finding betrayal difficult. he didn't run in saying he wanted to be a Traitor, and the odds were that he wouldn't be, especially as he told Claudia that.

Incidentally, going forward, I think Claudia should pick.

But even Kenny and Maya were awkward over his betrayal of her. Yes, it's part of the game but it runs, hopefully, counter to human nature, especially where friendships are developing in close quarters. She was livid; he felt bad.

I can't see him as unlikeable because he wasn't good at that; he knew it before and knew it to the end.

Get a grip? We’re talking about a tv show not anything important! I dont think he comes across well on this or anything else I’ve ever seen him on.

i don’t think you should sign up to play a game you’re not prepared to play. To me the game would have been better without him in it.

Leigh-Ann, Bash and Kenny will be on with Romesh on R2 after 11am.

Is it bad when he announced who would be on earlier, I had to stop and think: “who’s Leanne?”

You are all full of compassion @RosieandRobin

@RosieandRobin I mean, you’re talking about an actual human being, but yeah, you carry on.

That was the most quietly dramatic moment of the whole series for me — Romesh essentially saying to Bash ‘I trust you — tell me what I should do’, and B doing just that. Probably struck me because I’m naturally suspicious, and more like Joanne saying she’d be accusing her own cats of baseless crimes after the series…

Interestingly I saw some pictures from last nights uncloaked on Julie's Instagram and there is a photo of her and Jerry Hall. So she was there but must have chosen not to be on TV (or came to an after party perhaps).

I didn't find her whingy at all. There wasn't a lot she could have said to change anything.

Maya was being a bad sport if she was ‘livid’. That’s how the game works. She and James A voted for Hannah when it would have drawn suspicion not to. Kenny did the same when the heat was on Maya alone.

You’re forgiven. Lol.
Did they just say she was pregnant when filming it? Like when, hanging from a helicopter?!

It’s not like I’m slating him for failing in a charity challenge.

He accepted a rumoured £40k to play in an entertainment game show!

I don't think she was a bad sport in the least. She had perked up again when they all got outside.

But she looked both hurt and angry when it happened. That's what the "You'll need it" comment as she left was about.

It is a totally human reaction to betrayal. Yes, she knew the rules of the game, yes, she obviously counselled herself along those lines afterwards and calmed down, but at the moment it happened, I felt gutted for her. That isn't her being a bad sport to feel that pang of hurt and anger. I mean it is the fact we loathe and fear that as humans that gives the game its psychological edge.

I did feel for JA, I’d have hated to be a traitor. But in the end it wasn’t being a traitor itself that was his undoing - despite his unhappiness at being one, he lasted almost to the end. It was being confronted about being one that he couldn’t take.

Yes they just said she was pregnant when filming.

No there wasn't. But, as I said, Kenny handled the heat better. As it got to the end, her voice went up several pitches and her body language started to show. What about the "here's to killing ... or even banishing" comment?

Her unsettledness was a normal reaction, but what I am really saying is it takes someone to be able to suppress that in the final stages. I think Alan (whom I loved, don't get me wrong) had an advantage as a traitor because his body language and reactions are often quite emotional even when nothing much is up!

Yeah. I think he was thinking "I didn't even want to be!!!"

Well Blunty did a bit of singing!😂

Kudos to Leigh Anne. She did say she was a thrill seeker. I'm guessing they will have ensured safety. Did enjoy Bash doing the action man leap into the water.

Leigh Anne was pregnant when she did that helicopter drop? How did they insure that? Amazing

He accepted a rumoured £40k to play in an entertainment game show!

He was one of the few on this series who earned the fee imho. Possibly the TV moment of the year at that round table..

my daughter is autistic. She’s angry at JA for not leaving earlier when he had several opportunities to go without spoiling the final and affecting others. and she’s annoyed at him going on the show at all, considering his past relationship with shows similar to this and knowing how high his anxiety is. When he said he was in the library but didn’t spray the perfume, and outed himself, he threw the game.
A very poor thing to do, whether it’s “only a game” or not.