Mark Bonnar joins The Traitors celebrity edition

Mark Bonnar, the Scottish actor known for roles in Shetland, Line of Duty and Catastrophe, is among the celebrities competing in the first celebrity edition of The Traitors, which opened this week with contestants arriving at a castle in the Scottish Highlands. The episode, broadcast on Wednesday evening, introduced a line-up of well known figures and set the format in motion as host Claudia Winkleman selected three celebrities to play traitors and the remainder to play faithful contestants competing for a charity prize.

The opening night staged a theatrical arrival, with contestants driven to a graveyard bearing tombstones with their names, then tasked with digging for shields that would protect them from the series first “murder.” Six contestants found shields during that challenge, and the group later worked together to pull a wooden Trojan horse through gates after answering questions, adding 15,000 to the prize pot. At the castle, Winkleman revealed Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Cat Burns as the traitors. The traitors were then instructed to carry out a murder in plain sight by finding a poisonous black lily in the castle, transferring its pollen to the intended victim. The...