The Celebrity Traitors is a spin-off of the British version of the reality television series The Traitors, that premiered on BBC One on 8 October 2025. Claudia Winkleman presented the series. Following the premise of the parent series, the show features a group of celebrity contestants participating in a social deduction game similar to Mafia or Werewolf, set in and among the grounds of Ardross Castle in Scotland. During their stay, a small group of contestants become the titular "Traitors," and must work together to eliminate the other contestants to win a grand prize, while the remaining contestants become "Faithful" and are tasked to discover and banish the Traitors by voting them out to win the grand prize. Unlike the main series, the celebrity players are playing on behalf of a charity of their choice. == Production == In August 2024, the BBC confirmed that The Celebrity Traitors had been commissioned, along with two more series of The Traitors, the first of which aired in January 2025. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Kalpna Patel-Knight, the BBC's head of entertainment, said: "The Traitors has well and truly established itself as an unmissable highlight of the year and the news of a fourth outing, alongside a brand new celebrity version coming to the BBC, will take the series to a whole new level. In April 2025, it was confirmed that the show would air in the autumn of that year, with October 2025 later specified. Filming for the series began on 22 April 2025 at Ardross Castle and concluded the following month, consisting of 9 episodes due to air over three weeks from 8 to 24 October 2025. Following the cast announcement, host Claudia Winkleman said "We're incredibly lucky these brilliant people have said yes. I’d love to say we'll take it easy on them and they'll just wander round the castle and eat toast for a couple of weeks but that would be a lie." == Format == Following the format of the original civilian version of the show, a group of celebrity contestants arrive at a castle in the Scottish Highlands where they will spend their entire time for the duration of the game in order to win up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice. On the arrival day, host Claudia Winkleman picks a small number of contestants to be "Traitors" and the rest are automatically called "Faithful". The television audience can see who have been chosen as Traitors, but the Faithful do not know their identity. At the end of each day, all contestants meet at a Round Table to discuss who they think are Traitors. They then cast votes that are revealed one by one. The person with the most votes reveals their identity and is immediately banished. On most nights, the Traitors meet in private and agree to "murder" one Faithful who leaves the game immediately. The remaining Faithful only know who has been murdered at breakfast the next morning. Each day, the group participates in missions to win money for the prize fund which can reach up to £120,000 by the end of the game. During the missions, any contestant may separately win a shield that awards that player immunity from being murdered, but not from being banished. In some cases, the contestant has the right or ability not to disclose if they won the shield, or to tell a restricted group. If during the game the number of Traitors drops to two, or one, they may be given the option to "seduce" or recruit a Faithful to join them instead of murdering. Seduced Faithfuls may decline and might have the opportunity to tell the other Faithfuls of the attempted seduction. === End Game === After the final Round Table, the remaining players (typically four) gather at the Fire of Truth and participate in the End Game. The group are given an opportunity to end the game by unanimous vote. Any vote to continue will lead to another immediate banishment vote. When a unanimous decision is reached to end the game — or when there are only two players left — the remaining players reveal whether they are Faithful or Traitors. If they are all Faithful contestants, they will share the prize fund for their charities, however, if any of these final players are Traitors then they will share the prize fund amongst themselves for their charity. For the civilian series 3, in the final Round Table and for all subsequent banishments around the fire pit, banished players no longer reveal their true affiliation. In addition, the role of "Seer" was introduced, where a player, either Faithful or Traitor, can win the right in a task to meet in private with a player of their choosing who has to reveal their true identity to the Seer (the Seer's true identity is not revealed to the chosen player). Both players can tell the others players whatever they want about the contents of the meeting. In Series 3, the Seer's meeting happened before the final Round Table. Notes == Contestants == The 19 celebrities competing in the series were revealed on 13 May 2025. == Voting history == Key The contestant was a Faithful. The contestant was a Traitor. The contestant was murdered by the traitors. The contestant was banished at the round table. Notes == Missions == == Episodes == == The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked == To accompany the series, a follow-up television programme and BBC Sounds podcast was included, called The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked produced by Listen. The first episode aired on 8 October 2025. It was hosted by Ed Gamble and broadcast on BBC Two. == References == == External links == The Celebrity Traitors at IMDb [[Category:British English-language television shows