{"id":789774,"date":"2026-10-02T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789774\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:46:16","slug":"celebrity-traitors-fans-all-point-out-same-thing-about-ross-kemp-but-are-divided-by-his-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789774\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Traitors fans all point out same thing about Ross Kemp \u2013 but are divided by his tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"

After that dramatic season premiere of The Celebrity Traitors, fans have a lot to digest \u2013 not least that Richard E Grant moment<\/a>. However, another big talking point has been the antics of Ross Kemp, whose paranoia has quickly made him a viewer favourite.<\/p>\n

During the episode, the star showed endless suspicions towards others, notably when Bella Ramsey put a hat on him after doing well in a mission, as well as Leigh-Anne Pinnock affectionately brushing his arm in the castle.<\/p>\n

The star reckoned he was being secretly targeted in plain sight, and Leigh-Anne suggested he “calm down” when he accused her, noting: “It would be more than a rub on the shoulder.”<\/p>\n

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“My guard is very much up,” Ross admitted on camera. “Anybody touching me, offering me a drink, talking to me in a slightly odd way, that could be me gone. So at the moment I\u2019m feeling pretty paranoid.”<\/p>\n

Fans shared their reaction to the scenes, many in agreement that Kemp was providing TV gold, one writing on Reddit<\/a>: “I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again. Casting Ross Kemp in this show was genuinely a genius level move from whoever first thought to approach him.” <\/p>\n

“His paranoia will be the highlight of the show,” another viewer said, a third joking on X<\/a>: “By ep 3 of The Traitors, if someone makes him a cup of tea Ross Kemp will explode.”<\/p>\n

However, others predicted that he could be an all-timer. One said he “has the potential to be an all-time terrible Faithful”, while another added that he is “gunning for” the title.<\/p>\n

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“He\u2019s gonna draw suspicion because the Faithfuls will say he\u2019s trying too hard to look like a Faithful,” a further fan added.<\/p>\n

Uncloaked host Ed Gamble said that watching the scenes back at a press screening for the first time made him think it was “one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on television” (via The Independent<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“I mean, what a variety of men live within the Ross Kemp sphere, you know?” he added. “He\u2019s a big hard man running the boat mission, and then [he was] immediately terrified of a member of Little Mix touching him on the arm.”<\/p>\n

Gamble continued: “I think that’s something we don\u2019t even think about really when we\u2019re watching it, the amount of paranoia that must be in there, especially if you\u2019ve watched the game.”<\/p>\n

The Celebrity Traitors season 2 airs on BBC One and iPlayer.<\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After that dramatic season premiere of The Celebrity Traitors, fans have a lot to digest \u2013 not least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,147950,158912,379,260074,381,96,190731,1156,260073,223205,149157,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-the-traitors","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-d12d4ea6-1235-4858-bb2f-636226d55e2b","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-celeb-traitors-fans-all-point-out-same-thing-about-ross-kemp","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-reality-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}