The Celebrity Traitors is back for a second series, and viewers will see the likes of Michael Sheen, Jerry Hall, Richard E Grant and Amol Rajan at the round table along with Bella Ramsey, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Maya Jama and King Kenny. There are 21 celebrities taking part in total - two more than last year - and there will be an extra episode after the huge popularity of last year's series. The extended 75-minute debut episode starts at on Thursday, with Claudia Winkleman again hosting the murderous game.
Viewers can expect some fresh ideas, and executive producer Sarah Fay said they "always want to push the envelope" with the show's elaborate tasks. "We're always trying to evolve existing ideas to bring them into a new life or coming up with different cultural references," she told the show's press launch. The celebrities will be playing for a £100,000 cash prize for charity.
The final amount will depend on how well they perform in the tasks, regardless of any possible tensions over who is a faithful and who is a traitor. This year's contestants are a mixture of famous faces from TV, film, radio and YouTube: Maya Jama – broadcaster and entrepreneur Professor Hannah Fry– broadcaster and mathematician Celebrity Traitors 2 cast: Who are this year's 'big dogs' and dark horses? In the show's trailer, external, they are seen arriving in a church, smiling as they greet each other, but looking nervous.
They later travel to the castle in a fleet of black cars, before Winkleman chooses her traitors while everyone wears their blindfolds. They then take part in their first mission in a lake in wetsuits, ending with Winkleman saying ominously: "Fame won't save them." Speaking at the press launch, Winkleman said she is totally focused on the celebrities while she's in the castle, and is glued to the monitors showing footage of them throughout the day. "All of them were tremendous, and when we do any series I have this room with the monitors.
I'm like a weirdo just applying fake tan, watching," she said. The presenter added that even when she's told to go home, she tells the producers "I am not leaving", joking that she got barely any sleep. Ed Gamble, host of BBC Two spin-off show Uncloaked, added that he watched "hours of footage a day" as well.
"So when they're eating breakfast, I'm eating breakfast watching them eat breakfast. It's actually quite sad... I'm normally sat there in my pyjamas eating cereal, watching them eat cereal," he told BBC News.
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