{"id":790272,"date":"2026-10-03T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790272\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:04:09","slug":"celebrity-traitors-claim-their-first-victim-as-richard-e-grant-tries-to-save-his-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790272\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Traitors claim their first victim as Richard E Grant tries to save his skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The players made their way to the mission, which had the usual slightly convoluted rules that took Winkleman quite a while to explain.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the celebrities were to be buried alive in pairs, with only one duo left above ground.<\/p>\n

Ross Kemp was pre-selected by the traitors to be protected from burial along with his grave partner Romesh Ranganathan, who did a delightful dance when he found out he wouldn’t be going underground.<\/p>\n

Kemp and Ranganathan then had the opportunity to dig up some gold graves which would add to the prize pot, or alternatively dig up and free their fellow players.<\/p>\n

They opted for the latter, which resulted in some other players struggling, external<\/a> to get the soil off their faces. In the end, all the celebrities were released, with the exception of Fry and Hall.<\/p>\n

The pair were freed early after Hall shouted the emergency word “Haggis!” \u2013 effectively a Scottish version of “I’m a celebrity get me out of here!” – because she was visibly uncomfortable being buried alive.<\/p>\n

It might have led to an early release, but it ultimately guaranteed that either she or Fry will be murdered next, unless the traitors recruit again.<\/p>\n

“Just you and me up for murder,” Fry told Hall afterwards. “You’d better not be a traitor or I’m really screwed!”<\/p>\n

In a flashback shown to viewers, Acaster explained the decision to protect Kemp from burial, telling his fellow traitors: “I think if we give it to Ross, he’ll overthink it, and behave in a way that would draw suspicion.”<\/p>\n

Very clever. “You’re a wonderful traitor,” observed Grant. (Certainly better than him.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The players made their way to the mission, which had the usual slightly convoluted rules that took Winkleman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790272","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=790272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}