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After months of anticipation, The Celebrity Traitors is finally here, so grab your popcorn and strap in.
The BBC’s new spin-off featuring an all-star cast kicks off tonight: Wednesday, October 8.
The hit reality show has assembled a line-up of 19 famous faces, including household names like Alan Carr, Stephen Fry, and Kate Garraway.
In a teaser for the nine-part season, we saw host Claudia Winkleman grilling the cast as they assemble around the iconic Traitors roundtable.
‘Welcome. But don’t get comfortable,’ she warns. ‘This game doesn’t care who you are. In here, your glamorous lives count for nothing.’
‘Most of you will be murdered. Sorry about that,’ she finished.
Then, in the full trailer, we got an insight into our contestants. ‘Maybe I have got a dark side,’ Carr declares. ‘I’m gonna fight till the death,’ Tom Daley says.
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As usual, the series will see celebrities divided up into the Traitors and the Faithful, with the whole cohort faced with tough challenges by day and heated debates by night.. These celebs will be hoping to win the cash prize of up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice.
Richard Osman recently shared with listeners on The Rest is Entertainment podcast that he’d spoken to a number of the contestants at the Baftas, who were ‘admirably tight-lipped’ about how the filming had gone.
He said: ‘The thing everyone was saying was, it is a lot more intense than you think it’s going to be.
‘If you were to win it, you’re there for two weeks. There are no phones, you’re not watching TV, you’re kept sort of isolated because of the nature of the game.’
So who exactly will be walking through the castle doors and going head-to-head at the roundtable, and when will we be able to watch it?’
Here’s the full list of the 2025 line-up:
Who’s in the cast of Celebrity Traitors 2025?
Alan Carr
Comedian and Interior Design Masters host Alan Carr is first up on the star-studded list to enter the castle and vie for the cash prize. No stranger to reality TV, Carr will likely be at home on The Traitors.
He might even have something of an edge, as a self-professed Agatha Christie obsessive. Carr explored his literary heroine and her famous characters, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, on the 2022 show Alan Carr’s Adventures With Agatha Christie.
Cat Burns
Cat Burns, 24, is a singer-songwriter and will be the youngest celebrity in the castle.
We know she’s clued up on The Traitors after featuring in the BBC’s social media watch-along for the latest season of the show.
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After plenty of speculation that comedian Bob Mortimer – British comic legend and Last One Laughing winner – would be part of the line-up, there was disappointment when he wasn’t.
Executive producer Sarah Fay exclusively revealed: ‘If Bob wanted to do it next year, we would absolutely love it.’
As for why certain casting might not happen, fellow executive producer Mike Cotton added: ‘It’s not just a case of we want them to do it, there’s other things involved.’
‘A lot of people wanted to do it, but they have other commitments.’
You can read the full write-up dishing the behind-the-scenes Traitors secrets here.
Celia Imrie
Bridget Jones actor Celia Imrie is an inspired addition to the line-up, as she’s set to star in the film adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club book.
Perhaps she learnt a few clues about solving murder mysteries while filming?
Charlotte Church
Next up is another phenomenal name in showbiz: Charlotte Church.
The 39-year-old singing powerhouse certainly knows how to keep a secret, after appearing on The Masked Singer, and so could be in contention for a spot as a Traitor.
Clare Balding
Sports journalist and broadcaster Clare Balding is the fifth celebrity in the line-up.
Like Alan Carr, she’s a fan of the murder mystery maven Agatha Christie and even visited Christie’s holiday home – and the inspiration of one of her stories – as part of the travel series Tales from the Riverbank.
David Olusoga
Esteemed historian David Olusoga has an illustrious career presenting historical documentaries under his belt.
So can he add another accolade and conquer the inaugural Celebrity Traitors?
Joe Marler
Former England rugby player Joe Marler, 34, retired from international rugby last year.
No stranger to elite levels of competition, he is now set to take on a different type of sport, vying for the Celebrity Traitors win.
Joe Wilkinson
Offbeat comedian Joe Wilkinson is fresh from his stint in the Last One Laughing house, where he was one of the first comedians out of the game.
Perhaps he will have a better go of it at the roundtable in the Scottish castle, where laughing is at least allowed.
Jonathan Ross
Renowned presenter Jonathan Ross is used to being the one on hosting duties for The Jonathan Ross Show or sussing people out on the judging panel for The Masked Singer.
These gigs could stand him in good stead in the castle, where the ability to judge who’s who will prove key.
Kate Garraway
Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway is the next name in this treacherous game.
Garraway went into the I’m A Celebrity jungle back in 2019 and came in fourth place, so could do even better with a second go at a reality show gong.
Lucy Beaumont
Comedian Lucy Beaumont will be replacing Hull with Scotland this autumn.
She might be aiming to improve on her last-place score on the 16th series of Taskmaster and avoid being the first to leave the castle.
Mark Bonnar
Mark Bonnar is no stranger to a mystery, having starred in Shetland, Unforgotten, and Line of Duty, among many other projects.
Playing the part of a detective could make the game of figuring out the Traitors from the Faithful a bit easier.
Nick Mohammed
Ted Lasso actor and comedian Nick Mohammed has already been singled out by Richard Osman on his podcast The Rest is Entertainment as one to watch.
We’ll have to wait and see if this prediction turns out to be on the money.
Niko Omilana
British YouTuber and influencer Niko Omilana might be familiar to fans of the Sidemen charity matches, or even those completely across the independent candidates in local elections – he ran in the 2021 mayoral election and the 2024 general election.
Since politics hasn’t panned out yet, Omilana might yet have more luck competing at the roundtable.
He’s already honed his strategy after finding himself in a high-stakes situation once before.
‘I lied to the leader of the KKK, telling him I was with the BBC,’ the 27-year-old told the BBC ahead of the new series.
‘He believed me, so yes, I have to have to have a good poker face, particularly when I’m in a high-risk situation like that.’
Paloma Faith
Singer-songwriter Paloma Faith will make her reality TV debut as a competitor on Celebrity Traitors, having previously been a coach on The Voice UK.
Perhaps she will change her mind about whether ‘only love can’t hurt like this’ after experiencing the backstabbing that the castle comes with…
In a chat with The Sun, Paloma revealed what the cast are really worried about.
‘Everyone who I have spoken to who is on it says they are worried about the edit because everybody could be painted as absolutely awful or absolutely gorgeous, and it is up to whoever is editing to decide,’ she said.
Ruth Codd
Irish actor Ruth Codd is best known for her role as Anya in Netflix’s The Midnight Club, a part she said that she only landed ‘by accident’, after TV bosses came across her TikTok videos talking about her disability.
Since then, Codd has appeared in Fall of the House of Usher and is set to make her film debut in How To Train Your Dragon this summer, before she takes on the Celebrity Traitors this autumn.
Stephen Fry
The national treasure himself. It turns out the rumours are true because multi-hyphenate brainbox Stephen Fry is indeed among the confirmed line-up.
After years puzzling it out as the host of QI, Fry will be able to turn his significant wits to this game of cat and mouse. Definitely one to watch.
Speaking about joining the show on The One Show last month, he shared: ‘I always promised myself I would never be on a reality show, but I watched the game, and I thought this is the most revealing thing I have ever seen about the human mind
‘It’s vulnerability, it’s fragility, it’s failure. Can we read people? Can we deceive people?
‘It’s a very basic question from high politics to everyday life we ask ourselves and being in it was a genuine thrill.’
Tameka Empson
Fresh from Albert Square, the EastEnders star will be the final actor rounding out the line-up for 2025.
Empson will be taking a break from Walford and her role as Kim Fox to compete for the charity cash prize.
Tom Daley
The five-time Olympic medallist is set to take a new kind of plunge this year, after retiring from professional diving.
There couldn’t be a better setting than the Scottish Highlands castle for Daley, who will have ample opportunity to show off his array of handmade knitted jumpers in the nippier weather. He might even give Claudia a run for her money.
When does Celebrity Traitors start?
The Celebrity Traitors begins on October 8 at 9 pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
The first episode is set to be an extra-long 70-minute special, and from the series will air two nights a week, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 9pm.
The Celebrity Traitors will premiere on BBC One and iPlayer tonight.
This article was originally published on May 13, 2025.
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