On to Friday’s mission, as the dwindling group arrived in a “field of screams”, as presenter Claudia Winkleman aptly put it, full of scary-looking scarecrows.<\/p>\n
“This is like the Wickerman,” said Joanne. “A solo scarecrow is sinister enough. A gaggle of scarecrows is terrifying.”<\/p>\n
The task involved them attempting to retrieve bags of gold from inside the straw men with a pitchfork, in a bid to add thousands of pounds to the charity prize pot.<\/p>\n
Joanne’s knot-tying badge she claimed to have been awarded in her youth didn’t seem to help her much, though, as she struggled initially to grab any gold.<\/p>\n
“I have a newfound respect for the farming community,” she declared.<\/p>\n
But it wasn’t only gold on offer, it transpired. An as-yet unrevealed game-changing power would be bestowed upon one player, but only after they had to blow up the proxy pumpkin scarecrow heads of all but three of the most trustworthy contestants.<\/p>\n
Things got a bit awkward when poor Sharon “got so mad at the boys” – James B, Michael and Kenny – over which heads should roll.<\/p>\n
In the most remarkably stupid moment of the series since Richard E Grant told everyone he was a traitor, the group chose to preserve the heads belonging to Maya, James A and Kenny.<\/p>\n
“I had to hold in my laughter,” said Maya, privately afterwards. “Of all people, you saved us. I just thought, ‘oh my gosh, have we completed this game already? We are trusting. We are unsuspecting. We are killing you all’.”<\/p>\n
With the others en route back to the castle, Winkleman quipped to the traitors: “This is like an outdoor turret.”<\/p>\n
The special power was revealed to be a double dagger enabling “the trustworthy trio”, as James A is now calling them, to award two banishment votes to whoever they wanted to hold it.<\/p>\n
King Kenny became King Arthur being crowned keeper of the special blade.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s in the right hands,” declared James B back at the castle, now colder than ever in terms of catching a traitor.<\/p>\n
“I feel like whoever it is, they are five sreps ahead of us,” noted a befuddled Leigh-Anne. “We don’t have a clue!”<\/p>\n
Romesh then had to remind Joanne that her policy of not voting off Michael because he’s “great company” is not really how the game should work.<\/p>\n
With the double dagger in play and time running out for the faithful, Michael declared that he had to catch a traitor tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On to Friday’s mission, as the dwindling group arrived in a “field of screams”, as presenter Claudia Winkleman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811944","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\/811944","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=811944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}