A first-look teaser has been released for series 2 of The Celebrity Traitors, hosted by presenter Claudia Winkleman.
The trailer opens on a church, with an organ playing in the background, before cutting to Winkleman addressing pews full of celebrity contestants.
A black-clad Winkleman calls for “a moment of silence for the celebrities gathered today” before the camera zooms in on A-list competitors Michael Sheen, Miranda Hart, Rob Beckett, Bella Ramsey, and Richard E Grant.
The full cast, announced in May earlier this year, will see the beloved host joined in the Scottish Highlands by, among others BBC presenter Amol Rajan, actor Bella Ramsey, comedian James Acaster and singer James Blunt, as well as Love Island’s Maya Jama, Sheen, Hart, Professor Hannah Fry, Grant, and Beckett along with his TV partner-in-crime Romesh Ranganathan.
At the start of the new series, a few celebrities will be selected as “traitors”, and the rest will be declared “faithful”.
The secret traitors will “murder” one faithful in secret each night (via an envelope telling them they’ve been “killed”), as the faithful try to figure out who’s a traitor so that they can vote to “banish” them at the round table each evening.
During the day, the celebrities will complete challenges to win money to add to a prize pot, which will be donated to a charity of the winner’s choice.
In certain tasks, the celebrities will also be able to win “shields” which protect them from “murder” by the traitors. The faithful win if they banish all the traitors; the traitors win if any of them are left at the end of the game.
Winkleman’s in particular has become an iconic aspect of the show, thanks to her dramatic persona and theatrical outfits.
Is Claudia Winkleman Jewish?
Winkleman is the only daughter from pioneering newspaper editor Eve Pollard’s first marriage to publisher Barry Winkleman, both of whom are Jewish.
Her parents split up when she was just three, and both went on to remarry. Her half-sister, Sophie, is an actress who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor.
Winkleman grew up in Hampstead and attended the City of London School for Girls before achieving a degree in art history from Cambridge.
At first, she planned to follow her mother into journalism, but pivoted into television, appearing frequently on the BBC series Holiday.
She would go on to become renowned for her personality and style – her spray tan and dark fringe have become iconic in the world of British television.
Perhaps most famously, she co-hosted Strictly Come Dancing with Tess Daly for more than a decade, since the retirement of the legendary Sir Bruce Forsyth in 2014, with the pair stepping down last year.
She began hosting The Traitors during the show’s first series in 2022, and its spinoff, The Celebrity Traitors, premiered in October 2025. The first six episodes of series one averaged 14.8 million viewers per episode.
The Celebrity Traitors series two will premiere later in 2026 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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