Trust Stephen Fry to be the one to succinctly sum up The Traitors experience . “Let the horror unfold and let the worst person win,” he mutters to himself, stood at the side of a remote winding road in the Scottish Highlands. Then, a black Range Rover happens to pull up alongside him, actor Celia Imrie and former England rugby prop Joe Marler in the backseat. Thankfully, they’re all headed in the same direction: to the Traitors castle.
This is the first celebrity version of the megahit BBC One game show – in the UK at least; the iteration we know and love was actually the first in the world to feature civilian players, following multiple star-led versions from America to Belgium. The idea of having celebs take over the game ruffled my feathers at first. No, I thought, the succ