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The Celebrity Traitors final airs on BBC One tonight – meaning fans will get to see if the Faithfuls can secure the prize pot.
Some viewers have already seen the episode though, as it was released on a Canadian streaming service before hastily being taken down. A spokesperson for the BBC told The Independent: “We kindly ask anyone who thinks they know the outcome of The Celebrity Traitors to keep whatever they believe they know to themselves.”
Traitors Alan Carr and Cat Burns have had a phenomenal run, with each of them coming under suspicion on just a handful of occasions. However, comedian Carr appeared to blow his cover in the penultimate episode last week, as he burst out laughing while attempting to declare: “I am a faithful.”
Joe Marler is the Faithful who has come closest to rumbling the devious pair. The former England rugby player was labelled a “genius” by fans after last Thursday’s episode, which saw him correctly work out who the remaining Traitors are. Marler seems to have convinced Nick Mohammed of his theory, but the pair will most likely need the third remaining Faithful, historian David Olusoga, on side in order to win.
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, tonight’s episode will see the final five take part in a challenge. They’ll then eliminate players via a vote until they all agree to end the game. If it’s just Faithfuls at the very end, they’ll split the prize pot. But if a Traitor remains, they will steal all of the money.
The Celebrity Traitors final airs on BBC One at 9pm on Thursday, November 6.
Follow live updates ahead of tonight’s final below…
Celebrity Traitors final key points
The countdown to the final begins
And we’re (very nearly) off! In less than an hour, The Celebrity Traitors final will begin.
Before that, here’s a very quick reminder of the state of play in the castle. The remaining Faithfuls are Joe Marler, Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga, who are trying to root out the last Traitors standing.
Alan Carr and Cat Burns are the final two Traitors left in the game, after their co-conspirator Jonathan Ross was banished last week.
Joe and Nick are each convinced that the other is a Faithful (Joe keeps referring to the Ted Lasso star as a “hundy”, as in “one hundred percent Faithful”, after all). But the pair of them still remain slightly suspicious of fellow Faithful David, who has also previously accused Nick of being a Traitor.
Alan and Cat’s potential route to the prize pot won’t be easy, either. Joe is now pretty set on the fact that both of them are Traitors, and he has already revealed his finale gameplan to Nick: he is going to bide his time and keep both on side, then blindside them with a big reveal.
“My plan involves getting really close to Alan and Cat so they keep me in the game, and then I can try and pull the rug from under their feet at the last minute,” he said towards the end of last Thursday’s episode.
Will he stick to his guns? Will Alan be able to keep a straight face through it all? Will David manage to convince Joe and Nick that he, too, is a “hundy” (sorry)? All will be revealed soon…
Katie Rosseinsky6 November 2025 20:11
Cat Burns speaks out on the Celebrity Traitors moment she’ll ‘never live down’
Admitting you don’t know who Dame Judi Dench is on national TV? When you’re in the company of one of her co-stars? It’s a moment that Cat Burns reckons she’ll never live down.
Earlier in this season, the singer-turned-Traitor revealed that she had no idea who Dame Judi was during a high-stakes challenge. And as for fellow Dame Helen Mirren? Nope. She didn’t have the foggiest.
In a BBC Radio 2 interview with Scott Mills earlier today, Cat said that she is “never going to live that down”.
“I just needed to see a picture,” she explained. “If people just say names at me, I just go ‘I don’t know who that is.’
“But if I see a picture I know who it is.”
Fair enough, Cat. And the musician certainly went on to make up for that particular blind spot with her strong performance in other challenges.
Katie Rosseinsky6 November 2025 19:47
Nick Mohammed: The loveable Faithful and puzzle-master
Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed flew under the radar in the first half of the series, but he certainly went on to make his mark.
The actor thrust himself into the spotlight (and the firing line) when he secretly worked with Jo Marler to fix one of the challenges. In his to-camera interviews, he has shared plenty of theories and plans – revealing his idea to cosy up to suspected Traitors and turn on them at the last minute.
While he wasn’t totally correct on his guesses, he did identify Jonanthan Ross and Cat Burns as Traitors. Though the former was successfully banished, Burns is, of course, still in the castle. And she has no idea Mohammed is onto her, which certainly makes things interesting ahead of the final.
Here’s Nick Mohammed’s Celebrity Traitors journey so far…
Rachel McGrath6 November 2025 19:16
Kate Garraway reveals Tom Daley is knitting her a gift
Remember Tom Daley’s perfectly meme-able side eye from earlier in the season, directed at fellow contestant Kate Garraway?
When the breakfast TV host loudly declared that Paloma Faith’s murder was “flabbergasting”, Tom was less than impressed, and didn’t try to hide his bemusement.
But it seems like the pair have put that awkward moment behind them, as Tom, a prolific knitter who’s currently hosting Channel 4’s Game of Wool, is apparently making Kate a personalised woolly hat. Very sweet.
“He’s knitting me a ‘flabbergasted’ Flump hat,” Kate said on Good Morning Britain today. “You know my ridiculous Flump hat? That and flabbergasted is all I’m going to be known for now.”
The Flumps, FYI, were a bunch of hat-wearing creatures from a Seventies TV show (yes, I had to Google them).
I’m not entirely sure which of Kate’s pieces of headgear was particularly Flump-like, though, as she wore so many during her stint in the castle, my personal favourite being her “year abroad in Paris” black beret.
Read the full story below.
Katie Rosseinsky6 November 2025 18:46
Alan Carr: The most unlikely unsuspected Celebrity Traitor of all
Who knew that he’d come this far? In the first episode of The Celebrity Traitors, Alan Carr seemed earmarked for early banishment from the castle after he was selected as one of the three Traitors alongside Jonathan Ross and Cat Burns.
While the chat show host and the musician seemed to embrace their new role with remarkable sangfroid, Carr melted under the pressure. “I have a sweating problem and I can’t keep a secret,” he admitted early on. Not exactly ideal traits for a Traitor, then. And when he claimed that he was “worse than Linda”, in reference to season three’s over the top opera singer, we were inclined to believe him.
But as the series has gone on, the comedian has grown in confidence – partly because, well, his fellow contestants haven’t really bothered to suspect him until now, despite some very messy gameplay.
His larger-than-life persona has ended up serving him well: whenever he has done something a little silly or unexpected, like quoting Shakespeare in order to murder Celia Imrie in plain sight, or even forgetting the fact that he’d won a shield, the others seem to have brushed it off as “just Alan being Alan”.
But is Carr now on borrowed time? Joe Marler, the remarkably perceptive Faithful behind the original “big dog” theory, seems to have his number. That slip-up with the shield is, it seems, still playing on Marler’s mind.
Will Marler and his fellow Faithful Nick Mohammed call Carr out? We’ll have to wait and see.
Read more about Carr’s unlikely journey to the final below.
Katie Rosseinsky6 November 2025 18:13
The Celebrity Traitors’ viewing figures make a second season even more likely
Celebrity Traitors is already the most-watched TV show of the year, even before the finale.
The first four episodes averaged 12.6 million viewers, according to seven-day consolidated figures from Barb. The show’s audience has grown even further from there, which is a trend we also saw with previous civilian series.
Experts are predicting that 14 or even 15 million people could watch tonight’s episode.
To put that into perspective, it’s highly rare for a non-live news or sports programme to achieve a seven-day audience of 12 million or more. It happened just twice in 2024 and both times were thanks to Christmas Day programming. The final episode of Gavin & Stacey pulled in 19.3m viewers while 17.1m of us tuned in to the feature-length Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
The BBC is yet to officially confirm a second celebrity series of The Traitors but with viewing figures like these, surely one will be on the way…
Rachel McGrath6 November 2025 17:46
How Cat Burns’ quiet confidence got her to the final
In a show dominated by big personalities, singer-songwriter Cat Burns has expertly flown under the radar with just a few celebrities ever suspecting her.
Burns’ success as a Traitor has largely been thanks to how carefully she’s walked a very tricky tightrope. Where other celebrity contestants are loud, she is quiet – but never too quiet. Where the others forward ever-more preposterous theories, she holds back – right up until the moment it would look suspicious not to speak up, at which point she drops a succinct yet considered opinion in her soothing, resonant voice.
Sir Stephen Fry was one of the first to seriously point the finger at the 25-year-old as he noted that she often fell asleep during car journeys to and from challenges, suggesting late nights of “murdering”. But Burns wriggled out of the (accurate) accusation by saying her ADHD and autism make being around people constantly especially exhausting.
The problem she faces tonight is that two of the remaining Faithfuls have kept secrets of their own: they’ve figured Burns out.
Read more about her journey to the grand final below…
Rachel McGrath6 November 2025 17:16
Royal Family member puts themselves forward for the next series
The Celebrity Traitors producers secured several A-list names for the current series – but it seems they might be able to go one better and book a Royal next year.
During an interview on today’s This Morning, Mike Tindall – who is married to Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter Zara Tindall – said he would “definitely enjoy” taking part.
See what else he had to say in the video below…
Royal family member throws his hat in the ring
Rachel McGrath6 November 2025 16:46
All the celebrities who have been murdered and banished
The castle must have been feeling pretty empty by the final day. Over the course of the series, a whopping 14 left the show before the final, with half being ‘murdered’ by the Traitors while the others were banished.
The only Traitor to be caught is Jonathan Ross – which means these Faithfuls are statistically the worst ever. Ouch.
Here’s a full recap of the Faithfuls who were murdered, the first and last of whom were both killed off by Alan Carr in plain sight…
• Paloma Faith – episode two
• Tom Daley – episode three
• Ruth Codd – episode four
• Charlotte Church – episode five
• Joe Wilkinson – episode six
• Lucy Beaumont – episode seven
• Celia Imrie – episode eight.
And here are all of the banishments:
• Niko Omilana – episode three
• Tameka Empson – episode three
• Clare Balding – episode four
• Mark Bonnar – episode six
• Sir Stephen Fry – episode six
• Jonathan Ross – episode seven
• Kate Garraway – episode eight.
Rachel McGrath6 November 2025 16:17
‘I stayed in this Traitors-esque Scottish hotel – here’s why you should too’
If you’re not quite ready to say goodbye to all things The Traitors, our Global Travel Editor Annabel Grossman has found the perfect getaway spot to check into.
Mar Hall is just 15 minutes from Glasgow airport and the five-star retreat blends the modern with the traditional, she writes. There are plenty of activities on offer too – and I’m sure you can think of some twists to make them feel like the show’s challenges. Maybe pack a couple of shields?
Read the full review below…
Rachel McGrath6 November 2025 15:46
