Things are heating up on The Celebrity Traitors ahead of tonight’s finale.
After four weeks of murder and mayhem, The Celebrity Traitors is finally in the endgame.
Last night, the Faithful managed to take out yet another Traitor when James Acaster defied his oath and outed himself to his co-stars.
It was a divisive and dramatic moment that’s left fellow Traitors Maya Jama and King Kenny in a very precarious position.
But he might have actually done his fellow faithless a favour, as they made some pretty big mistakes last night that seem to have gone under the radar for now.
So to celebrate the BBC’s best TV show coming to an end tonight, we thought we’d list some of the gaffes we spotted during last night’s episodes.
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And if anyone from the Beeb is reading this and thinking, ‘Wow, did we really make such big mistakes?’ things could be worse… remember last year when the ending leaked?
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Maya Jama ‘killing ’em’ at breakfast
Maya Jama is the last surviving OG Traitor, so you’d expect her to have mastered the art of going under the radar by this point.
Sadly, for her, it seems not.
When the Love Island presenter was sat at the breakfast table, all the contestants raised a glass to hunting down the remaining Traitors. During the toast, though, Maya said: ‘To killing ’em’.
The gaffe seemed to catch the attention of James and Kenny, who immediately shot a look at their murderous co-conspirator.
Luckily, the Faithful either weren’t listening to Maya or they presumed she had misspoken and meant banishing. Still, with Michael Sheen now on her case, this is one slip-up that might come back to bite Maya on her green-cloaked bottom.
Kenny ‘as a traitor myself’ at the roundtable
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There was clearly something in the breakfast croissants yesterday, as King Kenny also made a mistake during the roundtable.
While they were discussing which of the celebs might be a murderous Traitor, Kenny began with an attack on Michael Sheen, basically arguing that he’s been such a big figure in the game that it’s weird he hasn’t been murdered.
Unfortunately, while presenting the argument, Kenny said: ‘As a Traitor myself’.
The admission prompted gasps online (and in my flat) as it seemed like Kenny had basically admitted to his co-stars he was spending his nights in the turret cooking up killer plots.
Still, he quickly contined ‘I would have gotten rid of you’, which seemed to frame the confession as a hypothetical scenario rather than him doing a James and just telling everyone he’s got a green cloak in his wardrobe.
Romesh writing James’ name before the vote
This last ‘mistake’ is probably the most interesting and the easiest to explain.
Eagle-eyed viewers have spotted that in one scene you can see that Romesh Ranganathan has written James’s name on his chalkboard and turned it to the rest of the table.
Who do you think will win tonight?
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The problem was that the vote hadn’t actually happened at that point. So did Romesh just have an itchy chalk finger?
Probably not; it seems likely that the editors wanted a reaction shot of Romesh and chose one from after they’d voted.
Unfortunately, they missed the continuity error on the chalkboard, which has led to some minor confusion online.
The Celebrity Traitors comes to a dramatic conclusion at 8 pm tonight on BBC One.