{"id":817997,"date":"2026-10-29T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817997\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:04:10","slug":"the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live-the-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817997\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE | The Traitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The series has caught fire at last. The final is going to be a scrap and a half. This time tomorrow, we will know the identity of the winner of The Celebrity Traitors. Who could it possibly be? Can Maya do it? Will Kenny slip under the net to secure a victory? If Michael wins, will he become the people\u2019s hero?\n <\/p>\n<p>I would love to hear your theories. Leave them in the comments below, won\u2019t you. See you tomorrow, everyone. Oh my god.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b5768f08b59995dabcd5#block-6ae3b5768f08b59995dabcd5\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">And that\u2019s where we\u2019re going to leave things tonight. Tomorrow just got a lot more exciting, didn\u2019t it? Maya Jama, who has spent the entire series gliding through untroubled, will now have to fight for her life to survive. She has a murder to execute, with Kenny, but that can only stop the bleeding for so long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b5098f08f9d01ef82087#block-6ae3b5098f08f9d01ef82087\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Everyone leaves for the comfort of their airport hotel, while Maya and Michael Sheen are left alone. The tension is palpable, not least because Sheen decides to take this moment to be very profound and very, very Welsh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b4938f08f9d01ef82082#block-6ae3b4938f08f9d01ef82082\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Oh, not that big. Claudia tells everyone that there\u2019s going to be a murder. But we knew that already, didn\u2019t we.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b4678f08b59995dabcc5#block-6ae3b4678f08b59995dabcc5\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The remaining contestants go outside and have a nightcap. Something big might be about to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b4418f08b59995dabcc3#block-6ae3b4418f08b59995dabcc3\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">And then Sheen gets even smarter, deploying a kind of dead man\u2019s switch by telling everyone that if he is murdered tonight (which he suspects he will be) then everyone should think back to how Maya acted at the roundtable. Whatever happens, she is now firmly suspect number one. Very well played.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b3df8f08559a67f939c9#block-6ae3b3df8f08559a67f939c9\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The contestants go back into the castle, and Michael Sheen starts crowing about how great he is for seeking out Acaster. And, fuelled by the scent of victory, Romesh and Blunt decide that Maya is probably a traitor too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b37f8f08559a67f939c6#block-6ae3b37f8f08559a67f939c6\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">I don\u2019t know who\u2019s counting here, but so far this series two contestants have been banished for declaring themselves to be traitors, and Joe Lycett was banished for declaring that he really wanted to be a traitor. This is the series of hurling yourself on a sword, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b32b8f08559a67f939c1#block-6ae3b32b8f08559a67f939c1\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">And that\u2019s it. He declares himself a traitor for a second time, and leaves. \u2018You got one!\u2019 shouts Claudia, and everyone cheers, even though he basically killed himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b2f08f08b59995dabcb2#block-6ae3b2f08f08b59995dabcb2\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Needless to say, everyone votes for James Acaster. Because, well, who wouldn\u2019t. It might just be the fastest vote in the entire history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/the-traitors\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Traitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b2bd8f08b59995dabcb1#block-6ae3b2bd8f08b59995dabcb1\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Right, so, James Acaster has just explained exactly what had happened. He admitted that he was recruited as a traitor, and he didn\u2019t want to be a traitor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b2938f08f9d01ef82070#block-6ae3b2938f08f9d01ef82070\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">GOD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b28e8f08559a67f939be#block-6ae3b28e8f08559a67f939be\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">MY<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b2898f08b59995dabcad#block-6ae3b2898f08b59995dabcad\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">OH<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject= The Celebrity Traitors: episode nine \u2013 LIVE&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/the-celebrity-traitors-episode-nine-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6ae3b2868f08f9d01ef8206f#block-6ae3b2868f08f9d01ef8206f\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The series has caught fire at last. The final is going to be a scrap and a half.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817997","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\/817997","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=817997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}