Charlotte Church joins Celebrity Traitors in the Scottish Highlands

Charlotte Church, the Welsh singer who rose to fame as a child classical performer, is among 18 celebrities competing in the first season of the television spinoff Celebrity Traitors, filmed in the Scottish Highlands. The series opened this week, with presenter Claudia Winkleman selecting the initial lineup of contestants and the first group of designated "traitors" during the opening episode.

Church first entered the public eye as a classical prodigy. Her 1998 debut album Voice of an Angel, a collection of arias recorded when she was a child, sold millions of copies worldwide. She moved into pop music as a teenager, releasing albums including Tissues and Issues and the 2010 record Back to Scratch, and later hosted The Charlotte Church Show on Channel 4 from 2006 to 2008. On streaming platforms, some of her most popular tracks are The Prayer, Crazy Chick, and All Love Can Be.

Before joining the show, Church described her hopes and approach to the game's central deception element. "I am really hoping to be a Faithful. I really don't want to be a Traitor. Certainly not at the beginning," she said. "It depends what happens in the game but I think that I'm a Faithful through and...