Rob Beckett eliminated in The Celebrity Traitors episode five

Rob Beckett was eliminated from The Celebrity Traitors in the fifth episode, broadcast Thursday, October 15, after the Traitors selected him from a group of four contestants facing possible murder. The episode’s breakfast scene revealed Beckett’s fate to the remaining contestants. Leigh-Anne Pinnock, who had been given an immunity key, was safe from elimination if chosen. The key left Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan and Ross Kemp vulnerable to the Traitors’ decision. The four had been selected for a hide-and-seek challenge at the end of the previous episode. The immunity key meant Pinnock could not be murdered if the Traitors chose her. The episode-five outcome showed Beckett was eliminated instead. Ranganathan expressed regret that the group had given Pinnock the key rather than him, saying he felt he had let Beckett down. After Beckett’s portrait was taken down at breakfast, Ranganathan kissed it. Beckett later met Traitors Maya Jama, Hannah Fry and James Acaster and laughed at their reveal. In his exit remarks, Beckett described his elimination as a surprise and said he had not been close to identifying Jama and Acaster. He also predicted that Ranganathan would seek to...