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Spoiler warning: This article reveals details from the fourth episode of The Celebrity Traitors, series two.
Being a Traitor must be a nightmare.
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 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.
“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.”
I guess now we’ll never know.