Celebrity Traitors intensifies with screams, haunting scenes, deadly hide-and-seek
Episode four saw another contestant killed off, a ghoulish mission near a graveyard and a spooky twist.
Source: BBC Entertainment and Arts · October 10, 2026 at 10:49 PM · AI-assisted report
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KUALA LUMPUR, 11 OCTOBER 2026 —
Spoiler warning: This article reveals details from the fourth episode of The Celebrity Traitors, series two.
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While other people are out enjoying their lives, they have to kill it, night after night. Even on the weekend, there is no rest for the wicked. Friday's episode saw the Traitors at it again, murdering Last of Us actor Bella Ramsey, before the faithfuls did their dirty work for them by banishing another of their own, Julie Hesmondhalgh.
The previous episode - watched on Thursday by 10 million people - saw another faithful, unlucky Industry star Myha'la, follow self-sabotaging traitor Richard E Grant out of the castle. And so viewers went into Friday's show knowing that traitors Maya Jama, James Acaster and their newest recruit, Prof Hannah Fry, had been debating murdering one of three Bs: Bella (Ramsey), (James) Blunt and Bash (Sebastian Croft).
When Ramsey failed to arrive for breakfast it soon became apparent what wickedness had taken place overnight. Where is the Traitors castle, and can you visit it? "That's our biggest threat," explained Jama, in a flashback from the previous night's scenes in the traitors turret. "Get them out the way, that group disperses." Acaster agreed: "People are doubting their instincts after that roundtable.
If Bella's proven to be a faithful, they're going to be even more spun out." Jama continued: "Chaos, regardless... Bella, you're a genius, but you gotta go." On receiving the news, Ramsey was shocked but not surprised. "I think this is a clever move by the traitors," they responded in the diary room. "I was going to re-set and start from the beginning because I got it so wrong with Myha'la.
"So I think that they were right to murder me because I think I would have maybe figured it out." Back at breakfast, Hesmondhalgh's apparently earnest but over-the-top reaction to Ramsey's removal immediately raised suspicions. The former Coronation Street star had been voted as the most trustworthy of the group by her peers in episode one and given a shield, but that counted for little by episode four.
The cleverest among the group, on paper at least, Fry, found questions being asked of her again too as the day rolled on. "I did not choose the traitor life, the traitor life chose me," said the latest recruit to the dark side. "I know there are people who are suspicious of me but I'm going to enjoy every last moment." Comedian and Miss Marple impersonator Miranda Hart is one of them.
"Hannah lied to us," she rightly noted, with reference to the professor's confusing shield story that helped to see off Myha'la the night before. Singer and ex-military man James Blunt, however, had other ideas, ramping up his campaign against Hesmondhalgh, whom he believed to be a little too trustworthy to be true. Friday's mission raised more money for charity and also raised spirits, but not in a good way.
It involved the group paying a visit to a graveside haunted cabin to converse with the dead about unresolved matters. "It's creepy, it's giving murder," noted Barbie actress Sharon Rooney on arrival. Comedian Romesh Ranganathan joked that his mum was going to "absolutely hate this", as the group gathered in a graveside chant led by the booming voice of big dog actor Michael Sheen.
The spooky task made Ranganathan himself let out a hellish scream and saw Hart come face-to face with a masked hooded creature, before team-player Croft volunteered to go head-first into a stinky old toilet in scenes resembling ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here. "Guys, it's a little bit of poo," noted hardman Ross Kemp, as all around him gagged.
"It's not gonna kill you." Actor Croft received a protective shield for his troubles, at least. "If I'd have put my hands and head down a toilet for nothing, I would've been fuming," he fairly noted. The group, with a little help from the undead, had to find a child's toys and a woman's wedding dress and shoes.
This later prompted model Jerry Hall to reminisce about her own wedding to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. "Before I got married to Mick - we'd already been together seven years, had two children - I put on a wedding dress every day until he agreed that we get married," she revealed. Some rancid wine that tasted like "salty bin juice", according to comedian Joanne McNally, topped off possibly the most revolting task yet.
On the way back to the castle, YouTuber King Kenny raised more suspicions about Fry having allowed him to grab a shield. "She held off to make herself look a bit innocent," he told his fellow faithfuls. Traitor Jama smartly deflected attention away from herself by latching on to the growing suspicions around Hesmondhalgh.
Ahead of the roundtable, Fry told producers she knew she would have to fight like her life depended on it - because it did - and try to disguise herself as still being a faithful. Once discussions were under way, she played the sympathy card, claiming she had been left feeling "vulnerable" as she knew her reputation as a brain box would make her a target.
Miss Marple aka Hart wasn't going to let her off the hook that easily, however, noting how Fry's argument the previous night had contradicted that of the innocent but now sadly now departed Myha'la. In a nice moment of levity in another tense debate, comedian Joe Lycett reminded the traitors - and pointedly, Hesmondhalgh - that he would "like to be recruited at some stage".
He stressed: "I'm still very much available." Hesmondhalgh laughed about how "going all dry mouthed" while defending herself was not helping her cause. "It would be a cruel move, wouldn't it?" noted Sheen.