The Celebrity Traitors episode 3 spoilers follow.
The Celebrity Traitors is only airing two episodes a week at the moment, and if tonight’s episode is anything to go by, the show is giving us just as much drama, just packed into a shorter timeframe.
Tonight’s episode saw Niko Omilana and Tameka Empsom banished by the group, Tom Daley murdered overnight, all three Traitors’ names brought up at the Round Table, a challenge, and that incredible moment where National Treasure Celia Imrie admitted to farting in front of everyone.
When the episode finally came to an end, more drama was being set up as Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Cat Burns plotted their next murder.
While the episode didn’t reveal who they chose (something has to be kept for the next episode), it did tease the possibility that we might see one of the riskiest murders we’ve probably seen in the history of this UK version of the show.
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Jonathan, who has been The Traitors’ de facto ringleader (or at least he thinks so, but more on that later…) put forward the idea of murdering Ruth Codd, as she had been on his case at the Round Table.
She hammered the point that he promised both herself and Niko that they were in an alliance and he would defend them, but then voted for Niko at the Round Table. He denied it but Clare Balding, who was also there at the time, backed her up.
“I would be an idiot to kill Ruth,” he said. “Unless they go with the triple double bluff thing, I can try and argue against it and say, ‘Look, if I was a Traitor, I wouldn’t have done that, it’s too obvious. Why put myself in the firing line?”
Essentially, what Jonathan is planning is hiding in plain sight. The celebrities know The Traitors are very clever, so by doing something that looks idiotic, it actually looks less suspicious and Jonathan can play the ‘I’m being set up’ card.
Cat and Alan both admitted that it could backfire, and the Faithfuls could see right through the multiple layers of bluffing. Of course, what they didn’t admit to him was that they’re both prepared to backstab Jonathan if it looks like the jig is up…
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Could it actually work, though? Looking at the general consensus, it seems like viewers at home either think it’s so clever it could work, or that he really has no choice but to roll the dice at this stage.
“If I was Jonathan I would murder Ruth tonight and play the double bluff,” one fan said, while another said: “I would kill her. I think people have make this mistake in the past where they avoid killing the people they are getting heat from.”
“I think killing Ruth may be a genius option,” reads another post. “We’ve seen it in other series when the Traitors have set up a Faithful and I think the celebrities will recognise this.”
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“Killing Ruth is the only play. If she stays in the game she’ll get Jonathan out,” a fourth fan said, while a fifth wrote: “Hoping that he can convince the others he’s being set up is probably his only hope.”
On the opposite side, one viewer said: “It would be super obvious then that Jonathan did it”, while another said this type of plan has “never worked” before.
The Celebrity Traitors airs Wednesday and Thursday nights at 9pm, and streams on BBC iPlayer. Companion show The Traitors Uncloaked follows straight afterwards on BBC Two.
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