Celebrity Traitors Season 2 Opens With Grant Blunder and Rajan Murder

The second season of BBC's Celebrity Traitors launched at Ardross Castle with host Claudia Winkleman selecting actors Richard E. Grant and presenter Maya Jama as the initial two Traitors. Grant, 69, immediately blurted out his secret role to fellow contestants, a blunder he later called the biggest mistake of his life, though some players dismissed it as a double bluff.

In the second episode, Grant and Jama chose comedian James Acaster as the third Traitor over former BBC journalist Amol Rajan. Rajan was subsequently 'murdered' and eliminated first, telling cameras it was 'gutting' to exit so early.

“That may be the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life. I was so thrilled to have been chosen as a traitor that in my unguarded excitement, I said, 'Of course I'm a traitor'.”

At the first roundtable, Jama turned on her fellow Traitor Grant, voicing doubts about his loyalty to deflect suspicion from herself. Viewers reacted with shock at the early betrayal between the two Traitors.

Social media attention also focused on Jama's large mustard feathered coat at breakfast, which drew comparisons to the Honey Monster, Big Bird, and the character Bungle from Rainbow.

The premiere episode attracted nearly nine million live viewers. Winkleman made a dramatic entrance carried by druids in a coffin, prompting model Jerry Hall to nickname her 'Claudiapatra'.