Celebrity Traitors Premiere Names Three Traitors

The Celebrity Traitors premiered on BBC One on October 8, with 19 celebrities flown to Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands to compete for a prize pot of up to £100,000 to be donated to charity. Host Claudia Winkleman secretly named Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Cat Burns as the series' three Traitors. An opening graveyard challenge saw six contestants unearth shields that grant immunity. The Traitors carried out their first “murder” in plain sight by rubbing pollen from a poisonous black lily and touching the face of their chosen victim, ending the episode on a cliffhanger. The series follows the original format with round-table votes and team challenges that will drive strategy, deception and eliminations.