Despite its extended running time, the episode ended without a murder or a banishment, leaving us with a huge number of questions.
We didn’t find out if the celebrities were any better than previous contestants at spelling each other’s names at the round table, or whether there would be another outbreak of players telling each other: “I’m voting for yourself.”
But we know there will be drama. “Did the roundtables get heated? Yes,” said Winkleman.
“They’re polite, but they want to catch the traitors, and the traitors want to remain undetected, and both parties are excellent at what they do.”
Sir Stephen’s total dismissal of the “gut instinct” tactic was particularly refreshing.
“The idea that you can be good at reading people is absolute nonsense, and it’s just like astrology or anything else,” he said before heading into the castle. “Woo woo. You just can’t do it.
“We can all be convinced, even though the facts tell us otherwise. These notions of ‘I just knew, it’s the way he lifted his glass, his eye doing that thing’ – all nonsense.”
As the episode drew to a close, the most pressing question was which star would be murdered by Carr in plain sight.
“I can’t believe they’ve left me to it,” he said. “I have people I want to kill, but it’s not going to be easy. What am I going to do?”
We can’t wait to find out.
The Celebrity Traitors is on BBC One on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:00 BST and on BBC iPlayer. There will be nine episodes.
