Nocturnal 
Forget the headline names like Maya Jama and Jerry Hall – the sharpest player in Ardross Castle right now is Miranda Hart.
In the latest episode of The Celebrity Traitors, the Faithfuls spent most of their time chasing theories that ranged from shaky to downright baffling. Julie Hesmondhalgh wrongly accused Myha’la of being a Traitor for previously backing Richard E Grant, who had just outed himself and been banished. Joanne McNally turned on Jerry Hall at the round table simply for not going for a shield during a challenge. James Blunt, meanwhile, pieced together a conspiracy theory so convoluted it involved Hesmondhalgh, Bella Ramsey and Ross Kemp all being linked by a hat.
While the rest of the Faithfuls were sent down the wrong path, Hart cut through the noise. In the closing moments of the episode, she stopped Blunt mid-theory to correctly name Hannah Fry as a Traitor – and she had the receipts to back it up.
How Hart worked it out
Fry, a maths professor, had been secretly recruited as a Traitor by James Acaster and Maya Jama earlier in the series. During a challenge, Myha’la had got to a shield first and told Fry to keep quiet about it, so the Traitors wouldn’t know which of the pair was protected from being murdered that night. What Myha’la didn’t realise was that Fry was already a Traitor.
At the round table, Fry stayed suspiciously quiet about that exchange – likely because revealing it would have made Myha’la look more trustworthy. Hart was the one who spotted the gap.
“The key actual tangible evidence is that Hannah did not declare what Myha’la had said in the crypt,” Hart told the cameras. “Of course, if Hannah was a Traitor, she wouldn’t reveal that because it makes Myha’la sound more Faithful. I’m so into this.”
She summed up her own detective work as “Miss Marple” at work – and it’s not the first time she’s shown sharp instincts in the game, having also picked up on Fry’s shifting behaviour earlier in the episode.
Why it matters
Celebrity Traitors series two features 21 famous faces, including Maya Jama, James Acaster, Michael Sheen, Jerry Hall, Amol Rajan and Ross Kemp, all playing for up to £100,000 for charity, filmed at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands and hosted by Claudia Winkleman. With so many strong personalities in the mix, working out who’s actually paying attention matters just as much as who’s getting the big storylines.
Fans have already started speculating, according to Digital Spy, that James Acaster could become the series’ standout “Traitor Hunter” – a potential threat to Jama as the Traitors try to stay hidden. Hart’s correct call on Fry suggests she could be just as big a danger to the Traitors as any of the show’s more obvious frontrunners, like Hall or last series’ winner Alan Carr once was.
What happens next
With Fry now exposed to at least one sharp-eyed Faithful, it remains to be seen whether Hart can convince the rest of the group before the next round table – or whether, as so often happens on The Traitors, the group will talk themselves out of the right answer. New episodes continue to air on the BBC, with the game edging closer to the final firepit.
