{"id":2398930,"date":"2026-05-02T09:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2398930"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:20:15","slug":"the-celebrity-traitors-series-2-line-up-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-celebrity-traitors-series-2-line-up-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors series 2 line-up confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"textComponent\">\n<p>The RTS and BAFTA Craft Award winning The Celebrity Traitors will return to BBC One and iPlayer later this year with its biggest celebrity cast to date.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Made by Studio Lambert Scotland, The Celebrity Traitors will see twenty-one famous faces head to The Traitors castle, ready to play the ultimate game of deception and betrayal in the hope of winning a cash prize of up to \u00a3100,000 for a charity of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>Host Claudia Winkleman will welcome an exciting and eclectic mix of people and personalities. Ranging from BAFTA and BRIT award winners, through to social media stars plus some of the UK\u2019s most cherished actors, comedians, presenters and beyond. As celebrities will question who can they trust, who deserves to be banished and who is secretly plotting murder under the cover of darkness?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"textComponent\">\n<p>Heading to the Scottish Highlands are, \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amol Rajan \u2013 Journalist and Broadcaster<\/li>\n<li>Bella Ramsey \u2013 Actor<\/li>\n<li>James Acaster \u2013 Comedian and Podcaster<\/li>\n<li>James Blunt \u2013 Singer\/Songwriter<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Hall \u2013 Model and Actress<\/li>\n<li>Joanne McNally \u2013 Comedian<\/li>\n<li>Joe Lycett \u2013 Comedian<\/li>\n<li>Julie Hesmondhalgh \u2013 Actor<\/li>\n<li>King Kenny \u2013 Content Creator<\/li>\n<li>Leigh-Anne Pinnock \u2013 Singer\/Songwriter<\/li>\n<li>Maya Jama \u2013 Broadcaster and Entrepreneur \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Michael Sheen \u2013 Actor and Presenter<\/li>\n<li>Miranda Hart \u2013 Actor and Author<\/li>\n<li>Myha\u2019la \u2013 Actor<\/li>\n<li>Professor Hannah Fry\u2013 Broadcaster and Mathematician<\/li>\n<li>Richard E. Grant \u2013 Actor and Author<\/li>\n<li>Rob Beckett \u2013 Comedian<\/li>\n<li>Romesh Ranganathan \u2013 Comedian<\/li>\n<li>Ross Kemp \u2013 Actor and Presenter<\/li>\n<li>Sebastian Croft \u2013 Musician and Actor<\/li>\n<li>Sharon Rooney \u2013 Actor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Series One of The Celebrity Traitors debuted on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in October 2025 and has been a runaway success with an average audience of 14.9m across the run with a peak of 15.4m for the finale. The series has seen unprecedented growth, making it the top entertainment episode across the whole market since 2016 and the number one series across all genres and platforms in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the fourth series of The Traitors, which had the nation hooked in January 2026, achieved a 12.5m 28-day average, this is up +22% on Series Three (10.3m). The majority of viewing has been driven by BBC iPlayer, making up 6.6m of the audience (53%), and increasing +28% on the third series. This is the second biggest series across the market since the start of 2025, only behind The Celebrity Traitors<\/p>\n<p>The Celebrity Traitors will be coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer later in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Celebrity Traitors series two (10 x 60) will be produced by Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC One and BBC iPlayer and has been commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment Commissioning for the BBC. The Executive Producers for Studio Lambert Scotland are Mike Cotton, Sarah Fay, Lewis Thurlow and Katy Fox with Production Executives, Lynette Woods-Reynolds, Gemma Scholes and Faye Donaldson. The Commissioning Editors for the BBC are Neil McCallum and Michael Jochnowitz.<\/p>\n<p>The Traitors (Dutch title: De Verraders) was created and developed by IDTV in cooperation with RTL Creative Unit. All3Media International is global partner for The Traitors and handles format and tape sales worldwide. Studio Lambert is part of All3Media<\/p>\n<p><strong>MJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"followformore\"><strong>Follow for more<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RTS and BAFTA Craft Award winning The Celebrity Traitors will return to BBC One and iPlayer later this year with its biggest celebrity cast to date.\u00a0\u00a0 Made by Studio Lambert Scotland, The Celebrity Traitors will see twenty-one famous faces head to The Traitors castle, ready to play the ultimate game of deception and betrayal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2398931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Celebrity-Traitors-series-2-line-up-confirmed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398932,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398930\/revisions\/2398932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}