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Screams, haunting scenes and deadly hide-and-seek, as Celebrity Traitors heats up

Episode four saw another contestant killed off, a ghoulish mission near a graveyard and a spooky twist.

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October 9, 2026
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Screams, haunting scenes and deadly hide-and-seek, as Celebrity Traitors heats up

Image caption, Romesh Ranganathan lets out a scream while holding a dead woman's wedding dress in a haunted cabin

Spoiler warning: This article reveals details from the fourth episode of The Celebrity Traitors, series two.

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.

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"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."

Image caption, Bella Ramsey was considered to be the Traitors' "biggest threat" and so had to go

Back at breakfast, Hesmondhalgh's apparently earnest but over-the-top reaction to Ramsey's removal immediately raised suspicions.

The former Coronation Street star had been voted as the most trustworthy of the group by her peers in episode one and given a shield, but that counted for little by episode four.

The cleverest among the group, on paper at least, Fry, found questions being asked of her too as the day rolled on.

"I did not choose the traitor life, the traitor life chose me," said the latest recruit to the dark side. "I know there are people who are suspicious of me but I'm going to enjoy every last moment."

Comedian and Miss Marple impersonator Miranda Hart is one of them. "Hannah lied to us," she rightly noted, with reference to the professor's confusing shield story that helped to see off Myha'la the night before.

Singer and ex-military man James Blunt, however, had other ideas, ramping up his campaign against Hesmondhalgh, whom he believed to be a little too trustworthy to be true.

Image caption, The group conversing with the grateful dead

Friday's mission raised more money for charity and also raised spirits, but not in a good way.

It involved the group paying a visit to a graveside haunted cabin to converse with the d…