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Claudia Winkleman is ready to welcome a new batch of British comedians and media personalities into The Traitors castle. Filmed in the Scottish Highlands, the 21 celebs will be sectioned into Faithfuls and Traitors \u2013 a choice that is Winkleman\u2019s to make. The Traitors meet nightly and quietly bump off the Faithfuls, with the Faithfuls getting their own back at roundtable vote outs \u2013 but how can the Faithfuls be sure they\u2019re targeting a Traitor and not one of their own?<\/p>\n
Read on to meet the cast of The Celebrity Traitors series two\u2026<\/p>\n
A familiar face across the BBC\u2019s programming, Rajan presents both the Today\u00a0programme and University Challenge.\u00a0He\u2019s also a regular host at the RTS Conventions, grilling TV\u2019s top bosses.<\/p>\n
Rajan has also worked with another celeb on this list, after appearing as himself alongside Myha\u2019la in an episode of Industry.<\/p>\n
Ramsey shot to success at only age 11, in the Game of Thrones franchise as Lyanna Mormont before taking on the role of Ellie in The Last of Us. They cemented their status as one of Britain\u2019s rising stars after winning an RTS Award for their work in Time.<\/p>\n
Known for his structured comedy style and deadpan comedy persona, Acaster broke into the main stream through his series of stand-up shows on Netflix, Repertoire,\u00a0and Off Menu\u00a0podcast, hosted alongside host of The Traitors\u00a0official podcast Uncloaked, Ed Gamble.<\/p>\n
James Blunt is known jointly for his music career, whereupon he sold 12 million copies of the single You\u2019re Beautiful,\u00a0and his Twitter career, whereupon he trolled his trolls (an example being \u201cJames Blunt has\u00a0an annoying face and a highly irritating voice\u201d, to which he replied \u201cand no mortgage\u201d). He even wrote a book on the experience called How to Be a Complete and Utter Blunt: Diary of a Reluctant Social Media Sensation.<\/p>\n
What hasn\u2019t she done \u2013 she\u2019s been a muse for Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol, the star of Tim Burton\u2019s Batman\u00a0and Bovril commercials, she\u2019s broken the Guinness World Record for most musical appearances in a single night \u2013 and now The Celebrity Traitors.<\/p>\n
McNally has hosted numerous RT\u00c9 shows, and hosts a podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me\u00a0alongside Vogue Williams.<\/p>\n
She has toured multiple stand-up shows with wine related titles: Wine Tamer, Prosecco Express and Pinotphile.<\/p>\n
Joe Lycett is a comedian, presenter, and enthusiast for Birmingham. He is also known for wiggling out of parking tickets and tying admin professionals in knots with his intense surveillance of the small print. He is also an artist, who has featured at multiple exhibitions, some alongside his mother, and has a Royal Academy accepted sculpture CHRIS on sale for the asking price of \u00a312,500,000 \u2013 any takers?<\/p>\n
From 1998-2014, Hesmondhalgh played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street, the first transgender character to ever appear on a British soap opera. She was later in queer drama Cucumber, Russell T Davies\u2019s criminally underrated Channel 4 offering.<\/p>\n
Most recently she featured in the groundbreaking Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and now, she\u2019s headed to the castle. With any luck, she\u2019ll be a Faithful. After being an ally for so long, it\u2019d be strange to see her as a Traitor.<\/p>\n
Alongside star of last year\u2019s Celebrity Traitors, Niko Omilana, Kenny Ojuederie\u00a0(known by his social media persona King Kenny) is part of the Beta Squad \u2013 a collective of five British YouTubers known for their prank style content. Together, they have over 11 million subscribers and have lived in a content house together on and off since 2019.<\/p>\n
Ojuederie is also a trained boxer, who competes in competitions for Misfits Boxing (owned by fellow youtuber KSI).<\/p>\n
As a member of Little Mix, Leigh-Anne is part of the only girl group to ever win The X Factor, and has since been releasing solo music since 2023 following the band\u2019s hiatus. Her debut album, My Ego Told Me To, entered the UK charts at number three.<\/p>\n
Outside of music she is known for her activism, fronting a 2021 documentary discussing her personal issues with racism named Race, Pop & Power.<\/p>\n
Jama worked her way from radio into the host of Love Island and panel regular The Masked Singer.\u00a0Her presenting work lead her to grace Edward Enninful\u2019s last Vogue cover as editor-in-chief, for which he selected 40 iconic women \u2013 Jama was featured\u00a0alongside Jane Fonda, Miley Cyrus and Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n
Sheen\u2019s CV ranges from bickering with David Tennant in Staged to threatening Kristen Stewart as a Volturi in Twilight. He\u2019s also played Tony Blair, David Frost and football manager Brian Clough. His versatility could come in handy for rooting out Traitors, or turning Faithfuls against each other.<\/p>\n
Miranda is best known for Miranda\u00a0\u2013 her semi-autobiographical sitcom which won two RTS awards, featuring herself running a shop alongside best friend Stevie (played by Sarah Hadland). In 2024, she released a memoir I Haven\u2019t Been Entirely Honest with You\u00a0opening up about her health issues.<\/p>\n
Actor Myha\u2019la has proved her icon status by going mononymous. Will she be able to bring some of the ruthlessness from her role in Industry as Harper Stern into her Traitor\u2019s game plan? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n
Mathematician Hannah Fry has presented documentaries on everything from AI, pandemics (two years before COVID began), Ada Lovelace and trainspotting. Her aim is to prove mathematics is not a boring subject \u2013 something backed up by her almost two million Instagram followers.<\/p>\n
Grant\u2019s breakout role was, of course, in cult classic Withnail & I, but you\u2019ll also remember him from turns in Doctor Who, Can You Ever Forgive Me?\u00a0and Saltburn. The thesp has appeared in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but will the performance of his career come from hoodwinking Faithfuls?<\/p>\n
The comic recently accepted an RTS award for Last One Laughing, where he managed to last until the final episode. Though he didn\u2019t win, Beckett did impart pearls of wisdom like \u201cnever let another man wipe your arse\u201d. He also presents the podcast Parenting Hell\u00a0with Josh Widdicombe.<\/p>\n
From hosting The Weakest Link\u00a0to squabbling with his mum on national TV, is there anything this comedian hasn\u2019t done? After starring in Judge Romesh\u00a0and The Ranganation, as well as appearances on Mock the Week\u00a0and the first ever series of Taskmaster, he\u2019s ready to take on the castle.<\/p>\n
The toughest man in Britain could easily intimidate his way to victory. Alternatively, he could get to the bottom of things with the interview techniques honed across four series of talking to organised criminals in Ross Kemp on Gangs. However the EastEnders\u00a0alumnus goes about it, the other camp will have its work cut out for them.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Croft has been in all sorts. He played a young Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, an exiled teenager in Horrible Histories: The Movie \u2013 Rotten Romans and Ben Hope in Heartstopper. The Traitors castle will be the perfect place to put those acting chops to use. Hopefully Croft will meet a better fate than Ned Stark.<\/p>\n
Rooney first came to prominence playing Rae in nineties-tastic E4 series My Mad Fat Diary. More recently, she appeared in the pinker half of Barbenheimer as Lawyer Barbie. You might also have seen her in Sherlock, Nightsleeper\u00a0and The Revenge Club. Will we be seeing her in a Traitor\u2019s gown?<\/p>\n