Exciting times are ahead in TV land this autumn—and we finally have a confirmed launch date for the Celebrity Traitors.
Not only that, but Claudia Winkleman has treated us to a tense first-look teaser ahead of the hotly anticipated series.
After tonight’s Strictly Come Dancing launch, a preview of the upcoming special aired, showing the presenter giving contestants a warning around the infamous roundtable.
At the end of the clip, Claudia, 53, revealed the celebrity edition of the game of deception and betrayal will start on Wednesday, October 8, on BBC One and iPlayer, meaning fans really don’t have long to wait.
In the teaser, celebrities including retired Olympic diver Tom Daley, actor Sir Stephen Fry, and The Thursday Murder Club star Celia Imrie were seen sitting across from their fellow competitors while Claudia said sternly: ‘Don’t get comfortable.’
‘This game doesn’t care who you are,’ she added, quickly knocking the famous faces off their pedestals.
‘In here, your glamorous lives count for nothing. Most of you will be murdered. Sorry about that.’
The lineup for the show includes comedians Alan Carr, Joe Wilkinson, and Nick Mohammed, presenter Jonathan Ross, broadcaster Clare Balding, and singer Paloma Faith.
Others taking part will be Welsh songstress Charlotte Church, England rugby player Joe Marler, comic Lucy Beaumont, Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway, and songwriter Cat Burns.
Completing the cast of Traitors and Faithfuls are actress Tameka Empson, actress Ruth Codd, historian David Olusoga, YouTube star Niko Omilana, and Scottish actor Mark Bonnar.
Taking to social media after getting their first glimpse of the celebs in action, fans were quick to share their excitement.
@AlishaW1709 wrote on X: ‘Oh my goodness I’m looking forward to this!!’
‘Strictly back tonight and Celebrity Traitors starting in a few weeks. Oh, we are so back…’, @abbie_mcauslan declared.
‘Celia Imrie being on celeb traitors is likely going to be the best reality TV casting ever’, added @xylottie.
‘ALAN CARR AND PALOMA FAITH IS ABOUT TO BE TOP TIER TV’, wrote @no1angelxcx.
‘It’s like almost all my favorite people sitting around one table’, added @CHELSEAwithaSEA.
In the show, the 19 celebs gather in the Scottish Highlands for the chance to win a cash prize of up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice.
Presenter Claudia, who has fronted three majorly successful civilian series already, previously said of the lineup: ‘We’re incredibly lucky these brilliant people have said yes.
‘I’d love to say we’ll take it easy on them and they’ll just wander round the castle and eat toast for a couple of weeks, but that would be a lie.’
The psychological game format will launch its first celebrity series with an extra-long first episode, coming in at 70 minutes.
It will then air two nights a week, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 9pm.
Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked will follow on BBC Two immediately after the main series and will also be available on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer.
Comedian and host of the video podcast Ed Gamble will be joined by the celebrities and players from previous series to analyse and react to developments on the show.
Ahead of the fourth series, which is coming in 2026, it is also confirmed that The Traitors will return for a fifth series, with applications open to the public, with millions inevitably set to tune in once more for a new instalment of backstabbing, secret keeping, and shocking reveals.
Celebrity Traitors begins on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on October 8.
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