Celebrity Traitors final live: Tearful winner Alan Carr takes it all for his chosen charity

Kilts! Tutus! Leather! An astonishing array of fingerless gloves! Safe to say that once again, Claudia and her stylist have absolutely knocked it out of the park, fashion wise.

If you fancy adding a touch of Winkleman to your wardrobe (and frankly, why wouldn’t you?), my colleagues over at IndyBest have got the lowdown on all of her outfits from this season.

You might have spotted a little teaser clip for the next round of The Traitors tucked away towards the end of the show…

It didn’t exactly give us any major clues about what we can expect (hooded figures? Lurking around a castle? Groundbreaking) but we can safely assume that the new season will be airing on the BBC towards the start of 2026.

The show has been part of the BBC’s early January programming for the past couple of years, and, although exact dates are yet to be confirmed, it seems pretty likely that the broadcaster will opt for a similar slot once more.

It’s safe to say that we’ll all be missing our twice-weekly Celebrity Traitors now that the series is over. So the big question is, will the BBC bring back the spin-off for season two?

Right now, we don’t have a definite answer, as a second series is yet to be confirmed. But, quite frankly, given the show’s runaway success, the broadcaster would be silly not to greenlight a follow-up ASAP.

Before the finale aired, Celebrity Traitors was already the most-watched TV show of the year. It drew in an average of 12.6 million viewers across the first four episodes, according to seven-day consolidated figures. That’s seriously impressive.

For comparison, 7.4 million tuned in for the finale of season three of the civilian edition back in January. The show, it seems, is going from strength to strength – and the fourth season (sans celebs) is slated to return to our screens early next year.

In the celebrity version of The Traitors, the stars choose to donate the prize pot to charity (rather than taking it for themselves, as contestants do in the civilian edition).

Alan Carr will be giving his winnings to Neuroblastoma UK, a charity that supports research and treatment for a rare cancer that develops in the nerve cells.

It primarily impacts children under the age of five.

“I told one person at the charity and they started crying, so that gives you some idea of how important this money will be to them,” Carr said after the final aired.

“Neuroblastoma is such a cruel disease, and this money will literally save lives. It’s a charity and disease that no one has really heard of so with the viewing figures being what they are it’s going to be so good for the charity.”

“It could have only ended this way,” writes Hannah Ewens.

“Traitor Alan Carr, a very obvious Traitor, who on multiple occasions almost admitted to the others he is a Traitor, is blubbing in a white suit with gold sequins.

“He has won the first ever series of Celebrity Traitors, an exercise in celebrities and TV intellectuals showing that money, books and jobs in the media (!) do not make an intuitive or remotely switched on being.

“The remaining two Faithful in that deciding round of banishing – David Olusoga and Nick Mohammed – are coo-cooing at Carr to calm him, soundtracked by the heartbreaking tones of Ludovico Einaudi.

“Just moments ago, they voted out the most obvious Faithful in the game, Joe Marler. It’s a ridiculous scene to end a ridiculous series full of hopeless people and we have loved every minute of it.”

Read Hannah’s full review of the finale below

Oh Joe. The Faithfuls didn’t deserve you.

At the start of the Celebrity Traitors finale, rugby player Joe had it all worked out. He’d realised that Alan Carr and Cat Burns were Traitors. And he was going to keep them on side to the very last minute, before wrong footing them at the roundtable.

But he was foiled at the last minute… by his fellow Faithfuls. Sigh.

Here’s a reminder of Joe’s Traitors journey… before it all went off piste.

Surely every vaguely famous person in Britain is about to put in a call to their agent and demand that they secure them a spot at the Traitors castle next year.

Even a member of the royal family has thrown his hat into the ring. Mike Tindall, the son-in-law of Princess Anne, has revealed that he’d “definitely enjoy” taking part in the show.

Former rugby player Tindall has previously appeared on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! so this wouldn’t be his first reality rodeo either.

The least likely Traitor of all time managed to clinch it in the end… and it certainly made for a satisfying victory.

Adam White looks back at how Alan went from a nervous wreck to backstabber extraordinaire.

Reckon you could do a better job than this lot? Surely it wouldn’t take much. If you think you’d actually look quite stunning in one of those green velvety cloaks, applications for the fifth season of the civilian version of The Traitors are currently open: you can head over to the BBC website to throw your name into the ring.