We also learned that although quite a few celebrities wanted to be traitors, including Rajan and Beckett, comics James Acaster and Hart and mathematician Hannah Fry wanted to be faithfuls – Fry said she was “dripping with prefect energy”.
Meanwhile YouTuber King Kenny and actress Myha’la had their own strategies.
“I have an innocent face; I want to avenge Niko [Omilana, the first to be banished in series one]. He left too early,” Kenny said, while Myha’la added she wants to be perceived as “doughy-eyed, fun, and maybe a little naïve”, unlike her scheming character in Industry.
Fashion is likely to be another talking point in the castle.
Beckett observed that when actress Julie Hesmondhalgh wore the shield she’d won, she looked like a “cardinal” in her long, red dress, adding: “I thought we were in the Vatican!”
True to form, Joe Lycett wore a polka-dot shorts suit with a purple feather collar.
Hall was also keen to strut her stuff, saying she wanted to stay long enough to “wear all my fabulous outfits”.
Blunt deadpanned: “Well, look, if you go early, I’ll wear your outfits.”
But although the one-liners were flying, the show got very serious at the end, when the game’s new twist dictated that Grant and Jama had to select their third traitor.
They had to choose two celebrities to meet them in person, to argue why they should stay, with the winner joining them and the loser becoming the show’s first murder victim.
“They’ll beg – there is a God. I’m loving it. Delicious,” Grant said, grinning like a kid in a sweet shop.