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\u201cIf this was a party, you\u2019d be really chuffed about who turned up,\u201d comedian Lucy Beaumont says in Celebrity Traitors (BBC One)<\/a> as she surveys her fellow contestants. And she\u2019s broadly right, provided you\u2019re a big fan of Stephen Fry and don\u2019t mind Charlotte Church getting all woo-woo about becoming \u201cintimate with the earth\u201d.<\/p>\n

This VIP version of the hit BBC One show is great fun. There are 19 celebrities, so even if some get on your wick, there will be others you like. I\u2019d defy anyone to recognise all of them. If you\u2019re au fait with Celia Imrie, you probably don\u2019t know YouTube prankster Niko Omilana, and vice versa. Not being a rugby fan, I\u2019d never heard of Joe Marler, but he\u2019s one of the funniest people here.<\/p>\n

The format is unchanged from the original version of the show: the contestants are ferried to The Traitors\u2019 castle in the picturesque Highlands, where some of them are secretly selected by Claudia Winkleman<\/a> to be Traitors. They must carry out a \u201cmurder\u201d each night without being detected, while the whole group also takes part in team challenges to boost the prize fund. The winner takes home up to \u00a3100,000 for their chosen charity.<\/p>\n

In the launch episode at least, everyone behaves exactly as you would expect. Alan Carr is hilarious. Tom Daley models his own knitwear. David Olusoga talks very softly, while Fry seeks out the works of Shakespeare in the library and admires \u201cthe bibelots, the objets trouv\u00e9s delicately placed on the shelves\u201d.<\/p>\n

The producers don\u2019t give them an easy ride. The first challenge is physically tough. Marler and Daley, unsurprisingly, are good at it. Clare Balding takes charge and gives instructions in head-girl fashion. The task also involves brain-power, which is where Nick Mohammed, perhaps the only Ted Lasso star to have studied geophysics at Cambridge, comes into his own.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you exactly what the challenge is because the BBC takes this show so seriously that it has become slightly hysterical and the pre-show spoiler list even extends to Claudia\u2019s outfits (Claudia herself isn\u2019t this precious \u2013 last week I saw her queuing uncomplainingly at the checkout in a particularly stressful branch of Ikea). Jonathan Ross gives her a run for her money in the clothing stakes anyway, changing in the first episode from a Val Doonican jumper to a Top Gun flight suit.<\/p>\n

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Alan Carr is hilarious in the launch episode of Celebrity Traitors – BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Euan Cherry<\/p>\n

Is it as good as the non-celebrity version? Not quite. Even the show\u2019s creators would admit it. When The Traitors first aired, I interviewed the duo behind it, Stephen Lambert and Tim Harcourt, and they said: \u201cThe disadvantage of the celebrity show is that they don\u2019t really care. The prize money isn\u2019t going to have a big impact on their lives and, anyway, they\u2019re more concerned about how they come across as celebrities rather than winning the show.\u201d Every word of this is true. On the other hand, the fakery involved in being a celebrity might turn some of this lot into elite-level Traitors.<\/p>\n

And the show is so well-made and well-edited that it is guaranteed to entertain. The launch episode really gets going at the end, when the Traitors are given their first mission and panic about how to pull it off. \u201cI thought I wanted to be a Traitor,\u201d one of them wails. \u201cI can\u2019t keep a secret. What am I going to do?\u201d Can\u2019t wait for episode two. I\u2019m already hooked.<\/p>\n

The Celebrity Traitors starts on BBC One on Wednesday 8 October at 9pm<\/p>\n

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