{"id":236423,"date":"2025-10-24T01:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236423\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:41:19","slug":"the-celebrity-traitors-episode-six-recap-and-player-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236423\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors episode six: recap and player rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s all getting a bit much. \u201cChests of chance\u201d and a national treasure banished, Alan Carr<\/a>\u2019s Christmas card list was reduced in size again, and everyone enjoyed a delicious chilli beef after a game of giant chess. <\/p>\n

There has barely been a chance to draw breath this week in The Celebrity Traitors<\/a>. The temperature has gone up and everyone has become much more aggressive and shouty (led by a tetchy Joe Marler<\/a>). It makes for fun TV, but it puts me off booking that castle retreat I had planned for half-term.<\/p>\n

Right, let\u2019s start at the beginning. After the uber-cliffhanger on Wednesday night<\/a>, the David Olusoga<\/a> v Mark Bonnar<\/a> stalemate was decided by a good old-fashioned game of \u201copen the box and see what\u2019s inside\u201d. Our historian chum got the shield and Mark said goodbye as passionately as he played the game. \u201cWe knew it,\u201d Stephen Fry<\/a> cried, looking at Jonathan Ross<\/a>. \u201cHow did you know?\u201d Lucy Beaumont<\/a> piped up. No one knows anything, it seems, and the faithfuls continue to drop like flies. <\/p>\n

Up in the turret our terrible trio did me a massive favour and killed off Joe Wilkinson, tearing apart the Joe Squared alliance and leaving us with just one Joe, which, from a reportage perspective, makes life a lot easier. Thanks, guys. Sadly, Joe M (that\u2019s the last time I\u2019m using the initial) didn\u2019t see it that way and was pretty irritable at breakfast, claiming he was grumpy because the traitors \u201chad ruined the game\u201d. Come on, Joe, it\u2019s not as important as rugby<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Stephen<\/p>\n

Celia Imrie and Stephen Fry have a national treasure catch-up<\/p>\n

EUAN CHERRY\/BBC\/STUDIO LAMBERT<\/p>\n

Out in the field the producers did their bit for the environment by recycling the big chess game from the civilian series. It was an opportunity for Joe to complain about the teams and for everyone to politely agree that Kate Garraway<\/a> is the weakest player. To her credit, she was a good sport and came out of it looking better than Joe, who stood, arms crossed, staring at Jonathan for most of the challenge. <\/p>\n

The grand finale was the emergence of a new faithfuls supergroup \u2014 Nick Mohammed<\/a> and Joe (Noe, or maybe Jick; I\u2019m not sure either will stick) \u2014 as they shockingly colluded to fix the chess game in a utilitarian attempt to maximise the safety of the greatest number of faithfuls. This alliance developed further when they were back in the castle, over a hot dinner they ate off their laps. Could this be the beginning of the end of the traitors? Of course not, but at least Noe are having a go. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The celebrities in a moment of unity<\/p>\n

EUAN CHERRY\/STUDIO LAMBERT\/BBC<\/p>\n

Accusations and misdirection across the castle teed us up for another fine round table. The gloves were off and everyone went in swinging. David made a good case in his defence after staying in the game by box-opening, and Joe shouted at Jonathan and anyone else who wouldn\u2019t agree with him. Nick dropped the bombshell that he\u2019d thrown the challenge and everyone raised an eyebrow, except Joe, who shouted more. Alan forgot he had a shield, which was a bad error in a game that had been going so well, and Celia Imrie<\/a> warned the group that Stephen is not a traitor. But despite an eloquent defence (and an attempt to point the finger at the traitor Cat Burns), the Big Dog Theory finally played out and the gang banished an innocent Stephen, instantly halving the collective IQ of the faithful. <\/p>\n

In the dying embers of a shocking week, we watched as the three faithful not protected stood in the dark on a chess board opposite a crudely mechanised traitor that would indicate their fate. Will it be Kate, Lucy or Nick whom our traitors knock off next? We\u2019ll have to wait until next time to find out. <\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s time for my famous player ratings. <\/p>\n

Celia Imrie<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.7
We have a new leader. The castle is imploding around her, accusations flying back and forth and tempers fraying, but somehow faithful Celia stays cool and retains the respect and trust of almost all the players. While others are going out on a limb and making mistakes, her considered \u2014 and seemingly filterless \u2014 personality is working to her advantage. She says what she sees, farts when she wants<\/a> and is game for a laugh, playing to her crowd. \u201cI say people are nice and I don\u2019t necessarily believe it,\u201d she admits when the players name her the most two-faced. There is still very little suspicion around her and she is suspicious of Jonathan and Alan, proving she isn\u2019t just taking shots in the dark. If she stays true to herself and avoids the squabbling, Celia could come through the middle and surprise everyone. <\/p>\n

Cat Burns<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.1
While Cat no longer looks like the runaway traitor favourite she did in the first few episodes, in a turbulent group she still doesn\u2019t have as much public heat on her as many. Stephen went for her in the round table, accusing her of sleeping a lot, but her defence shut down that theory fast. Yes, Nick thinks Cat is a traitor and is trying to stay close to her, but he\u2019s a long way off being able to take her down and may be murdered imminently. Joe seems to think Cat is a \u201chundie\u201d and is asking her opinion, so it seems unlikely momentum will move against her. She is otherwise still in a good position, but there are clamours from the group that she needs to speak up more about who she thinks are traitors. After voting for Stephen over and over and now it turns out she was wrong, where does she go next? She knows that Alan or Jonathan must be sacrificed to give the faithfuls the taste of blood. Could she be about to make Alan pay for his error on the shield? <\/p>\n

Alan Carr<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5
Oh dear, oh dear. He forgot he had a shield. That\u2019s a textbook mistake for a traitor. After spending much of the past two weeks riding high, Alan has become too cocky, it seems. He\u2019s been taking such relish in killing and delivering pithy one-liners that he forgot to keep his eye on the ball. After going hard at Mark at the last round table, he didn\u2019t follow his own advice and wasn\u2019t quiet at the most recent event. Instead, he got into a ding-dong with the volatile Joe, which no one comes out of looking good. Celia already has suspicions about Alan and after shield-gate Lucy is mentioning his name too. Cat even joined in a little at the end of the show. There\u2019s so much chaos in the post-Stephen world that it may be forgotten, but that error could end up coming back to bite Chatty Man very soon. <\/p>\n

Joe Marler\"A<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.1
Bereft after the killing of his namesake, confidant and friend, Joe is playing like he has nothing to lose any more. He is on a rampage. Subtlety and diplomacy have been disposed of and he is now agitator-in-chief at the castle. While he still thinks Jonathan is the head traitor, he\u2019s not managed to get many people to follow through with him. His boldness is raising suspicions, with Lucy calling it out and Alan doing his best to highlight it at the round table. Now in an open alliance with Nick, he\u2019s put all his cards on the table. He could be in big trouble from both directions. While his shield will save him from the latest murder he has to be a target for the traitors, but likewise, his head is so far above the parapet that when the faithfuls go looking for a banishment, his name won\u2019t be far from many people\u2019s lips. Perhaps the traitors may try to set him up \u2026<\/p>\n

Jonathan Ross <\/p>\n

Rating: 6.6
A cat with nine lives? The luckiest traitor ever? Whatever Jonathan is, he\u2019s still standing after a tumultuous few weeks in the castle. At some point he has been suspected by everyone, but even the Big Dog Theory led to Stephen\u2019s exit rather than his. Joe is certain Jonathan is a traitor and Celia has her suspicions. Both Nick and Lucy have also voiced concerns. It wouldn\u2019t take many more to turn their attention back to him for a banishment to occur, especially if there\u2019s a nudge from Cat or Alan, who can see trouble coming. However, with the castle in turmoil, he continues to stay calm (most of the time) amid the madness and that may take him further still. <\/p>\n

David Olusoga<\/p>\n

Rating: 5.5
After surviving the box-off with Mark, David assumed he was a dead man walking. \u201cStatistically I\u2019ll be voted out tomorrow,\u201d he told Lucy, who reminded him, \u201cWe tend to move on, to be honest.\u201d And she\u2019s right. They do and they did. The next night they banished Stephen while Jonathan roamed the halls with impunity. With nothing left to lose, David is now just saying what he sees and hoping someone listens. He thinks the faithfuls are doomed because they keep making the same mistakes<\/a>. And he\u2019s right. It\u2019s hard to see how he climbs out of the hole he\u2019s been put in, but if anyone has the intellect to form a new strategy in a rapidly anarchic castle, surely it\u2019s David. With a shield in his pocket he\u2019ll be there tomorrow \u2014 and anything can happen after a murder.<\/p>\n

Kate Garraway<\/p>\n

Rating: 4.1
Poor old Kate. She seems to be the butt of quite a lot of jokes in the castle and now she has been unanimously voted the weakest player in the big game of chess. She also seems to be up for murder every night, but the traitors don\u2019t seem threatened enough to kill her. But could they kill her tonight to cause chaos and misdirect the players? She claims her journalistic background means she tries to provide balance and see both sides of the argument, which leaves her in a pickle when it comes to pointing the finger. David thinks Kate and Stephen were plotting together, but now faithful Stephen is gone, that theory falls apart. She\u2019s pointed the finger at Nick, but if she can survive and get on side with his new faithfuls alliance, maybe she could coast along in the slipstream.<\/p>\n

Nick Mohammed\"A<\/p>\n

Rating: 4.0
Nick looked like the man to beat until halfway through the show. He\u2019s worked out Cat and Jonathan are traitors and his plan to keep them on side until the last minute is of course the correct one. But it all unravelled when he decided to fix the chess game and reveal his plan to Joe. This put him in an alliance that began to spiral over a chilli beef dinner and at the round table led him to own up to the chess shenanigans. The other players are now left thinking he\u2019s a bit dodgy again (remember he has form after the Celia grave incident) and his main ally is the volatile Joe, who is about to blow. A victim of circumstance and admitting defending Joe was \u201cthe right thing to do\u201d at the round table, Nick is perhaps showing he\u2019s too nice to win this. He\u2019s maybe a little too obvious a target for the traitors to murder tonight but they\u2019ve been blunt before. Even if he does survive, he needs to build a broad faithfuls alliance fast or he\u2019ll soon be out one way or another. <\/p>\n

Lucy Beaumont <\/p>\n

Rating: 3.2
Lucy was not happy that Nick didn\u2019t pick Stephen in the chess game. She smelt a rat and, as it was later revealed, he wasn\u2019t playing fair. The comedian has turned up the volume several notches in the past few episodes. She\u2019s saying what she thinks and she has suspicions about Jonathan, telling Cat she thinks he\u2019s double-bluffing everyone, and also seemed to think Alan could be a traitor for his faux pas on the shield. If that gets back to the turret, she could be an obvious target for murder tonight. In other news, Nick thinks she\u2019s a traitor alongside Jonathan and Cat, so if he manages to build a coalition of faithfuls she could be banished as part of a misdirected attempt to break that trio. It\u2019s all looking a bit bleak at Beaumont Towers. <\/p>\n

Banished<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stephen Fry
\u2022 Mark Bonnar (by tie-break)
\u2022 Clare Balding
\u2022 Tameka Empson
\u2022 Niko Omilana<\/p>\n

Murdered<\/p>\n

\u2022 Joe Wilkinson
\u2022 Charlotte Church
\u2022 Ruth Codd
\u2022 Tom Daley
\u2022 Paloma Faith<\/p>\n

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