Overview

• After contestant interviews, production designated Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Cat Burns as the season’s three Traitors.
• An opening graveyard challenge granted first‑night immunity shields to Ross, Joe Wilkinson, Joe Marler, Kate Garraway, Celia Imrie and Charlotte Church.
• The series’ first elimination must occur in plain sight via a ‘poison black lily,’ with episode one ending on Carr preparing to carry out the task.
• A team mission hauled a wooden Trojan horse and added £15,000 to the pot, while a Clare Balding mishap led Charlotte Church to surrender her shield.
• Overnight ratings reported 6.1 million viewers and a 46% 9pm share, with nine episodes airing twice weekly for a prize pot of up to £100,000 for charity.