{"id":790742,"date":"2026-10-03T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790742\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:24:09","slug":"the-celebrity-traitors-series-2-murdered-and-banished-contestants-have-their-say-as-they-leave-the-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790742\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors series 2 Murdered and Banished contestants have their say as they leave the castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amol Rajan<\/a>\u00a0was the first Faithful murdered by the Traitors.<\/p>\n

How has your time been on The Celebrity Traitors?<\/p>\n

I think it’s much bigger than I expected. It’s just an absolutely unforgettable ride of a lifetime. And honestly, there’s kind of an unhappy contrast right now, because I’m sort of grieving what might have been. In time I know that I’ll come to look on this as honestly one of the greatest privileges of my life. In fact, I already do. What an amazing thing to do, and it was bigger, it was bolder, it was braver, it was brighter than it looks on TV. And to have been sort of in it when it’s a show and a game I love so much is just a blessing, really.<\/p>\n

To go back to the start, what did you make of your fellow players?<\/p>\n

When the names were announced, there were a couple of names I knew less of. I thought I knew less about King Kenny<\/a>, for instance, but then I realised that actually I’ve seen thousands of his videos because I spend a lot of time on YouTube and I’m really into boxing. In fact, I kind of felt with every single one of them, that whilst I may be aware of them, I really didn’t know them at all, so I was really able to approach getting to know them in the moment. If you only know the surface level about someone, then you can make a bunch of assumptions that come with that. It just happens to be the case that I’m the only journalist here, and journalists are meant to be people who ask all the good questions. I was a little self-conscious about whether I should try and play that up to my advantage or whether that might arouse suspicion. How you negotiate your reputation is one of the interesting challenges in the celebrity version of the show. In terms of the cast overall, I thought it was a wonderful, really clever mix of people.<\/p>\n

How did it feel being sat there for the Traitors pick?<\/p>\n

Even if you’re someone who works in TV and is on TV, there is still something amazing about actually being in the place that you see on TV! You see it so many times, and the kind of theatrical energy and character of that Round Table itself. I know it’s such an overused word, but it is iconic. To actually be there, taking in that this is a real place, and I’m actually here \u2013 well, it’s spine tingling. Then the TV thoughts are put aside and very quickly it’s game time.<\/p>\n

Did you enjoy the Mission?<\/p>\n

What an experience! When else are you going to do that? If my 21-year-old self was told that I was going to be stood in a wetsuit, with new walking boots, on a beach in front of a burning shipwreck, next to Jerry Hall<\/a>, telling me she was about to wield a crowbar and that she was an expert in it, I\u2019d have said your life has turned out pretty damn well! I loved it, unconditionally, like absolutely a 100% fantastic experience, thrilling, and I just wish I could do it again and lots of times.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about your face to face murder and the buildup in the chapel\u2026.<\/p>\n

Last year I went to a pilgrimage in India for a BBC One documentary, travelling to the River Ganges. It\u2019s called the Kumbh Mela, and it’s just once every 12 years. It’s the biggest religious gathering in the world, and it’s about the alignment of Jupiter, the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun. Millions of people attend and there is chanting, smoke, rituals, people dressed in special garments, and it felt very heightened. I haven’t felt that same intensity until last night in the chapel. Last night in the chapel, every sensation was turned up to the absolute max. I’d been on this massive roller coaster of thinking that I was out, then thinking I was reprieved, then thinking, oh wait a second, this could get complicated. Walking into that beautiful chapel I saw one of the greatest comedians of his generation, in James Acaster<\/a>, a legend, wonderful human being who has become my mate, and I’m thinking, what are you doing here, mate? Are you a Traitor? It suddenly dawned on me that there were a couple of open coffins, and he said, “I’m not a Traitor. And there are two coffins up there,\u201d and I thought, okay, here we go.<\/p>\n

Did you have any idea who the Traitors were?<\/p>\n

No, I can\u2019t say I did. Not with Maya<\/a> anyway. I mean, it all makes sense in hindsight. And Richard<\/a> straight up told us! I think the Faithful have got a real challenge now with Acaster in the mix. I think he is going to be brilliant.<\/p>\n

If you could have addressed the others still in the game before leaving or left them with any advice, what would you have said?<\/p>\n

I would have said, at this early stage of the game, we have to acknowledge it’s a game of information, and the longer the game goes on, the more information you have. Right now, we don’t have much information. We can all come up with our great grand theories of everything, but no one really knows. The one thing we do know is that Richard is either a Traitor, as he said, or a bad Faithful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amol Rajan\u00a0was the first Faithful murdered by the Traitors. How has your time been on The Celebrity Traitors?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790742","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=790742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}