While some of the celebrities have known each other for 30 years, others have no friends in the castle at all.<\/p>\n
My Mad Fat Diary actor Sharon Rooney and Industry star Myha’la, for instance, have fewer connections than the others.<\/p>\n
And that can be a disadvantage. Remember Niko Omilana and Ruth Codd last year?<\/p>\n
After they were banished early on, a theory spread on social media that they were voted out because the other celebrities didn’t know them that well.<\/p>\n
But it can definitely go both ways.<\/p>\n
Leigh-Anne Pinnock has said the fact she doesn’t know many people might actually help her.<\/p>\n
“I think I’m at a slight advantage because people just know me as Leigh-Anne from Little Mix, and they don’t really know my personality that well,” she said.<\/p>\n
What’s clear is that these prior connections are “exactly the sort of thing” that makes Celebrity Traitors so fascinating, as TV reporter Siobhan Synnot told me.<\/p>\n
But – like Pinnock – she agrees that having loads of friends doesn’t necessarily end up helping you.<\/p>\n
“Quite often in The Traitors,” she says, “that familiarity becomes a disadvantage”.<\/p>\n
Players, you have been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some of the celebrities have known each other for 30 years, others have no friends in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791386","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=791386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}