{"id":2139963,"date":"2025-11-06T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2139963"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:30:08","slug":"the-celebrity-traitors-finale-review-clever-people-turning-out-to-be-dumb-makes-for-addictive-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-celebrity-traitors-finale-review-clever-people-turning-out-to-be-dumb-makes-for-addictive-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors finale review: clever people turning out to be dumb makes for addictive TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It could have only ended this way. Traitor Alan Carr<\/a>, 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<\/a>, 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 \u2013 David Olusoga and Nick Mohammed \u2013 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\u2019s a ridiculous scene<\/a> to end a ridiculous series full of hopeless people and we have loved every minute of it.<\/p>\n

Our not-so-cunning finalists were the Traitors<\/a> Cat Burns and Carr and the Faithfuls Marler, Olusoga and Mohammed. To catch up on all the previous eight episodes, all you need to know is the Faithful have been abysmal at their one job, mindbogglingly out of touch with their surroundings and the subtle workings of other people. \u201cI made some friends in here; I\u2019m starting to feel quite sad murdering them,\u201d says Burns in the opening interviews of this finale, and it\u2019s possibly true. She has, after all, been on a killing spree. The only Traitor to not make it to the finale is Jonathan Ross, who had to get voted out a couple of episodes ago because despite being a great liar, he emanates pure evil.<\/p>\n

The final challenge is perfectly fine; they\u2019re all shoved on a fancy train to solve puzzles before the train goes boom. \u201cThere was me thinking it was going to be like the Orient Express, but it\u2019s more like Speed,\u201d says Carr in the talking head interview. Beyond Marler shouting at Carr (\u201cWe haven\u2019t got time for your bum bag!\u201d) and some hysterical orchestral music, the jeopardy wanes a little here. It\u2019s to be expected considering they aren\u2019t dodging death to pay off their monstrous debts, they\u2019re finding clues so they can be the person who gets to give money to charity.<\/p>\n

The fact that these people are dripping with, if not money, then at least cultural capital, completely muddles the organising principle of the civilian series, which is a highly instinctual, bombastically emotive game to win a f*** load of cash. This could have been mitigated against. Why didn\u2019t this celebrity version start with them having the full \u00a3100,000 in the bank, with it dwindling for every lost challenge, for example? Then we could have watched them really fighting to win, lest they be ripped apart online for not caring enough about Age UK.<\/p>\n

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The finalists vie to escape from the train before an explosion (CREDIT LINE:BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Euan Cherry)<\/p>\n

In a way though, hasn\u2019t it been fun for true Traitors heads to see the parlour game at a different slant, played by people either inherently disconnected from reality or funnier than the average person (my oncoming autumnal SAD has been reversed thanks to Carr\u2019s constant quips, like the time he told Tom Daley that Daley can\u2019t just call someone a Traitor because they\u2019re smarter than him)? Hasn\u2019t it been curious to see contestants unable to hide behind fake personas or less suspicious jobs, as is typical in the usual series?<\/p>\n

Back at the last round table, Marler decides to trick the Traitors by forming a fake alliance with them, which delights the Traitors who think they\u2019ve played him. Zero surprise that Olusoga \u2013 who is a TV historian and author of types of dense books acquired by Mark from Peep Show \u2013 embarks on another of his torturous speeches, this time suspecting Faithful Marler. After Marler backstabs the Traitors, he provides the final vote out for Burns. At this point, Carr is the only Traitor standing.<\/p>\n

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Carr\u2019s constant quips have been a highlight of the series (CREDIT LINE:BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Paul Chappells)<\/p>\n

Sadly for Marler, he doesn\u2019t make it through the final banishing round with Carr, Olusoga and Mohammed. That\u2019s right \u2013 the obvious Faithful is out because he did a slick bit of gameplay at the round table and ensured that a Traitor was voted out. In the next round, Olusoga and Mohammed, a grave alliance formed in mutual ignorance, proceed to grin and agree that both them and Carr must all be faithful! So Carr wins and they lose. And frankly: good.<\/p>\n

There is absolutely no way of exonerating the foolishness of the Faithful in this first stab at Celebrity Traitors. Sure they had the \u201cbig dog\u201d theory, which argued that either Ross or Stephen Fry had to be a Traitor (arguably the two most forceful characters on the show, as the Elder Statesmen), but one of the more modest stars could have made an opening speech at an early round table and said, \u2018Alright, look: the Traitors team are obviously going to include at least two of the most famous people here. Alan and Jonathan, you\u2019re up.\u201d<\/p>\n

But really, it\u2019s been a success: I only love The Traitors franchise more. Just nine episodes of joy and frustration have revealed\u2026a lot about these relatable slebby stars. We thought we knew them so well, and it turned out…we didn\u2019t. Maybe normies do just play it harder and faster. Maybe they\u2019re smarter. Thank God it\u2019s not long until a new bunch of them come and grab the baton. As winner Carr signs off, cackling into the night as fireworks explode: \u201cParting is such sweet sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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