Celebrity The Traitors Debuts in Scotland as Paloma Faith Is Killed

The celebrity edition of The Traitors opened in the Scottish Highlands this week, drawing millions of viewers as 19 well known contestants entered Ardross Castle to compete in the psychological game. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the BBC One and iPlayer special premiered on October 8 with a 70 minute episode and continued on October 9 with an hourlong instalment that revealed the show’s first murder and left the first banishment decision on a cliffhanger.

Winkleman introduced the all star lineup and presided over the game’s opening challenges, in which contestants scrambled to find immunity shields buried beneath headstones. She warned that life in the castle offered “no special treatment,” and the show quickly pivoted from theatrics to intrigue when Winkleman named Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Cat Burns as the first Traitors. The trio were tasked with carrying out a murder in plain sight, using the pollen of a black lily to poison a fellow contestant by touching their face.

On Thursday it emerged that Paloma Faith had been the first celebrity to be killed. Carr, who was given responsibility for the physical act of the murder, later told cameras, “I didn’t know what else to do.”...