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British reality television series
| The Celebrity Traitors | |
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| Genre | |
| Based on | |
| Presented by | Claudia Winkleman |
| Theme music composer | Sam Watts[1] |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | Studio Lambert |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 8 October 2025 (2025-10-08) – present |
| The Traitors | |
The Celebrity Traitors is a spin-off of the British version of the reality television series The Traitors. It premiered on BBC One on 8 October 2025.[2] Claudia Winkleman presented the series.[3][4]
Following the premise of the parent series, the show features a group of contestants participating in a social deduction game similar to Mafia or Werewolf, set in and around Ardross Castle in Scotland. A small group of contestants is chosen as the titular “Traitors,” and must work together to eliminate the other contestants to win a grand prize. The remaining contestants are the “Faithful” and are tasked to discover and banish the Traitors by voting them out to win the grand prize. Unlike the main series, the celebrity players are playing on behalf of a charity of their choice.
Production
In August 2024, the BBC confirmed that The Celebrity Traitors had been commissioned, along with two more series of The Traitors, the first of which aired in January 2025.[5] Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Kalpna Patel-Knight, the BBC’s head of entertainment, said: “The Traitors has well and truly established itself as an unmissable highlight of the year and the news of a fourth outing, alongside a brand new celebrity version coming to the BBC, will take the series to a whole new level.[6] In April 2025, it was confirmed that the show would air in the autumn of that year,[7] with October 2025 later specified.[2]
Filming for the series began on 22 April 2025 at Ardross Castle and concluded the following month, consisting of 9 episodes due to air over four weeks from 8 October to 6 November 2025.[8][9][10] Following the cast announcement, host Claudia Winkleman said “We’re incredibly lucky these brilliant people have said yes. I’d love to say we’ll take it easy on them, and they’ll just wander round the castle and eat toast for a couple of weeks – but that would be a lie.”[11][12]
Format
Following the format of the original version of the show, a group of celebrity contestants arrives at a castle in the Scottish Highlands where the members will remain for the duration of the game in order to win up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice. On the arrival day, host Claudia Winkleman picks a small number of contestants to be “Traitors”. The rest are automatically called “Faithful”. The television audience knows which players have been chosen as Traitors, but the Faithful do not know their identity.
At the end of each day, all contestants meet at a Round Table to discuss who they think are Traitors. They then cast votes that are revealed one by one. The person with the most votes is immediately banished, and reveals their identity before leaving.[a] On most nights, the Traitors meet in private and agree to “murder” one Faithful who will leave the game immediately. The remaining Faithful players only discover who has been murdered at breakfast the next morning.
Each day, the group participates in missions to win money for the prize fund which can reach £100,000 by the end of the game. During the missions, contestants may also win a shield that awards that player immunity from being murdered, but not from being banished. In some cases, contestants have the right not to disclose whether they won the shield, or to inform only certain chosen players.
If during the game the number of Traitors drops to two or one, the Traitors may be given the option, instead of murdering a Faithful, to try to “seduce” or recruit a Faithful to join them. The approached Faithful will not know from which other player or players the invitation comes, and may decline the invitation, and may also have the opportunity to tell the other Faithfuls of the attempted seduction.[13]
End Game
After the final Round Table, the remaining players (usually four) gather at the Fire of Truth and participate in the End Game. The group is given an opportunity to end the game by unanimous vote. Any vote to continue will lead to another immediate banishment vote. When a unanimous decision is reached to end the game — or when there are only two players left — the remaining players reveal whether they are Faithful or Traitors. If they are all Faithful, they will share the prize fund for their charities; however, if any of these final players are Traitors they will share the prize fund amongst themselves for their charities.
- Notes
- ^ In the event of a tie, the tied players make a final plea before the remaining players vote between them again – if a second tie occurs, one player is chosen for banishment randomly among the tied players.
Contestants
The 19 celebrities competing in the series were revealed on 13 May 2025.[14][15]
Elimination history
Key
- The contestant was a Faithful.
- The contestant was a Traitor.
- The contestant was ineligible to vote.
- The contestant was murdered by the traitors.
- The contestant was banished at the round table.
| Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
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| Traitor’s Decision |
None | Paloma[a] | Tom | Ruth | Charlotte | ||||||||
| Murder | |||||||||||||
| Immune | Celia, Joe M., Joe W., Jonathan, Kate |
None | Clare, Mark |
Cat, Stephen |
David, Jonathan, Lucy, Nick |
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| Banishment | None | Niko[c] | Tameka | Clare | Tie[d] | Tie[e] | Mark[c] | ||||||
| Vote | 10–3–2– 2–1 |
4–2–2–2–1– 1–1–1–1–1 |
7–2–2– 1–1–1 |
4–4–2–1–1 | 5–5 | Fate | |||||||
| Alan | No vote |
Niko | Celia | David | Mark | Mark | No vote |
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| Cat | Kate | Stephen | Stephen | David | David | ||||||||
| Celia | Charlotte | Cat | David | Jonathan | David | ||||||||
| David | Niko | Stephen | Clare | Stephen | No vote | ||||||||
| Joe M. | Niko | Kate | Jonathan | Mark | Mark | ||||||||
| Joe W. | Tom | Jonathan | Clare | David | David | ||||||||
| Jonathan | Niko | Ruth | Clare | David | David | ||||||||
| Kate | Tameka | Tameka | Clare | Mark | Mark | ||||||||
| Lucy | Niko | David | Clare | Mark | Mark | ||||||||
| Mark | Tameka | Tameka | Charlotte | Kate | No vote | ||||||||
| Nick | Niko | Tameka | Celia | Kate | Mark | ||||||||
| Stephen | Niko | Charlotte | Clare | David | David | ||||||||
| Charlotte | Niko | Tameka | Clare | Murdered (Episode 5) |
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| Clare | Niko | Alan | Charlotte | Banished (Episode 4) |
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| Ruth | Kate | Jonathan | Murdered (Episode 4) |
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| Tameka | Kate | Celia | Banished (Episode 3) |
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| Tom | Niko | Murdered (Episode 3) |
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| Niko | Tom | Banished (Episode 3) |
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| Paloma | Murdered (Episode 2) |
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- Notes
- ^ The Traitors were tasked to murder someone in plain sight, by touching the victim’s face with their fingers after having touched a “poisoned” lily to gather its pollen. The Traitors were told that the victim would be present at breakfast the following morning. Alan chose to poison Paloma. The following morning, the players were told that the victim’s identity would be revealed as part of that day’s mission.
- ^ Charlotte sacrificed her shield in the Trojan horse mission in Episode 1 to open a gate.
- ^ a b The banishment was revealed in the following episode after ending on a cliffhanger.
- ^ The first round of voting resulted in a tie. Per the rules, a second vote was held where the players involved in the tie would not vote and the remaining players could only vote for those who tied.
- ^ The second round of voting resulted in a tie. Per the rules, the banished player will now be decided by fate from those who tied.
Missions
| Episode | Task description | Time limit | Money earned | Money available | Running total | Shield winner(s) |
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| 1 | The celebrities were each assigned a grave bearing their name, with a shield buried inside. The first six players to dig out their shield received protection from being murdered. | No time limit | — | — | — | Celia |
| Charlotte | ||||||
| Joe M. | ||||||
| Joe W. | ||||||
| Jonathan | ||||||
| Kate | ||||||
| A 2.5-ton wooden Trojan horse had to be moved to a fire pit in order to be set alight. Four locked gates were encountered along the way. Each could be opened by solving a puzzle or answering a question, or could be bypassed if a player chose to sacrifice a shield. | 30 minutes | £15,000 | £15,000 | £15,000 (of £15,000) |
No Shield on offer | |
| 2 | The murdered player (Paloma) and two decoys selected by the Traitors (Niko & Lucy) had to be identified as the 3 potential victims of the Traitors by solving clues. Each correct answer contributed £3,000 to the prize fund, whereas each additional clue deducted £500. An extra £4,000 was offered if the safe players could correctly guess the murdered player. | No time limit | £4,500 | £13,000 | £19,500 (of £28,000) |
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| 3 | The players were locked and chained to a ring located at the centre of a cabin. Keys were required to release each individual, with £500 awarded for every successful release. Each key was accompanied by a clue intended to guide players to the next. Two shields were also obtainable during the mission. | 25 minutes | £8,000 | £8,000 | £27,500 (of £36,000) |
Clare |
| Mark | ||||||
| 4 | Players were divided into two teams. The forest team gathered banshee wails and vocalised them into a water well. The garden team listened on the other side by submerging their heads underwater. Each melody had to be correctly matched to one in a named locket to identify the banshee. £1,000 was awarded for each correct match. Two shields were on offer. | 30 minutes | £4,000 | £5,000 | £31,500 (of £41,000) |
Cat |
| Stephen | ||||||
| 5 | At four traps, each worth £2,500, players faced questions about eliminated contestants. They could allocate funds across multiple answer options. The player positioned at the correct answer received a shield and added their money to the prize fund. Those trapped at incorrect answers were eliminated from the mission. | No time limit | £7,000 | £10,000 | £38,500 (of £51,000) |
David |
| Jonathan | ||||||
| Lucy | ||||||
| Nick | ||||||
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Episodes
The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked
To accompany the series, a follow-up television programme and BBC Sounds podcast was included, called The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked produced by Listen. The first episode aired on 8 October 2025. It was hosted by Ed Gamble and broadcast on BBC Two.[19]
