I’ve avoided watching any of this up to now as I have an addictive personality and know I won’t be able to stop if I watch. But I had my parents visiting this week and they really wanted to see it from the final 6. Sigh.

Loved it though. The traitors definitely deserved to win more from what I could see based on how they played so glad they did. Jack and Faraaz had a bond that could have won it but the number 1 rule was that they had to vote together and they couldn’t manage it.

I didn’t understand why Faraaz knew he wanted to get to the end with Jack and was clear in his mind that the traitors were among the other three, and yet refused to vote in the same order as Jack. If your votes are split you have no chance. I guess it is harder to agree a strategy as faithfuls than as traitors because you can’t guarantee having alone time.

I was convinced Rachel was cooked either way after Thursday's episode OR the cliffhanger into the finale meant we were going the way of US3's damp squib finale but when the traitors managed to vote Jade out at the final 5 (let's talk about these idiot faithfuls not being able to succesfully whip a vote against one person, come on!) and spin Jack and Faraaz into a 2-1-1 at the final 4 I was in awe of both Rachel and Stephen's gameplay. Brava!

In retrospect, I think killing Jessie was what condemned the faithfuls as I think she was the glue that kept the group of faithfuls together with any cohesion before they all turned on each other, completely failing to mention either of the traitors names until far too late.

Dare I say, best UK Traitors series?

That was definitely one of the best series i've watched. Much, much better than last year.

Fair play to Stephen for sharing the money with Rachel. He really could have just kicked her out and had the money to himself.

For context Big Brother UK peaked with 10M viewers and the BB7 final drew 8M so more people in the UK watched last night than they did Pete win Big Brother and that itself was EVENT TV!

It hasn't came close to X-Factor peak and obviously never will (different times) but I definitely think the Celeb Traitors this year could hit over 10M.

Edited Saturday at 11:273 days by shadow2009

5 minutes ago, shadow2009 said:

For context Big Brother UK peaked with 10M viewers and the BB7 final drew 8M.

It hasn't came close to X-Factor peak and obviously never will but I definitely think the Celeb Traitors this year could hit over 10M.

TV is different though now? I expect with consolidated ratings it will be way higher.

Does seem like the next celeb series and series 5 will be the peak. I thought this series might be the peak but some good growth still.

Uncloaked was really interesting. Faraaz had all the right thinking but he was pretty useless at the strategy element and gaining the numbers, which Rachel and Stephen did. They just lost their heads a little bit and voted on emotion rather than thinking it was a numbers game, and of course, Faraaz just got played by Rachel! I still think series 2 is the best overall. The cast was overall more likeable this year than last series, but last year had some really good moments. I guess like everyone, the winners were completely rubbish and it felt like the Seer twist completely shot both of them in the foot. I still don't think the Seer is a bad idea, but I'm glad they tried something new this series.

Just now, Rooney said:

TV is different though now? I expect with consolidated ratings it will be way higher.

Does seem like the next celeb series and series 5 will be the peak. I thought this series might be the peak but some good growth still.

Uncloaked was really interesting. Faraaz had all the right thinking but he was pretty useless at the strategy element and gaining the numbers, which Rachel and Stephen did. They just lost their heads a little bit and voted on emotion rather than thinking it was a numbers game, and of course, Faraaz just got played by Rachel! I still think series 2 is the best overall. The cast was overall more likeable this year than last series, but last year had some really good moments. I guess like everyone, the winners were completely rubbish and it felt like the Seer twist completely shot both of them in the foot. I still don't think the Seer is a bad idea, but I'm glad they tried something new this series.

Ah yeah that's why I said 'obviously never will'. I should have expanded that Big Brother/X Factor was pre-streaming and catch up times. It's still incredible ratings.

Edited Saturday at 11:263 days by shadow2009

The last few faithfuls all seemed really nice people but I felt there was a lot of “I’m being myself” and “I’m going with my gut”. All commendable in a way but as faithfuls you still need to be strategic and ready to double cross people up to a point if you want to win.

Great ending. Rachel and Stephen, absolutely deserved winners! I really thought we wouldn't ever see two Traitors work together all the way to win, I just thought the paranoia would be too much and eventually one would be too greedy, so fair play to Stephen, he did the right thing.

So for these 4 seasons, the winner has been Faithfuls, Traitor, Faithfuls, Traitors. So the next one would be Faithfuls then, lol.

A big well done to the winner!

Edited Saturday at 12:033 days by Jessie Where

The only thing I would have liked to see was the Traitors revealing their identities to Jack at the fire pit but obviously it wouldn't have worked. I find the big Traitor reveal at the end to be a key, dramatic part of these shows.

4 hours ago, shadow2009 said:

That was definitely one of the best series i've watched. Much, much better than last year.

Fair play to Stephen for sharing the money with Rachel. He really could have just kicked her out and had the money to himself.

This would have made amazing viewing lol. But yeh glad they shared it as she helped him a lot in the early part of the series.

Think Faraaz did well he deduced it was Rachel-Stephen-Jade this week with his evidence but he couldn’t create the alliances needed.

16 hours ago, Jessie Where said:

A big well done to the winner!

Let’s get Rachel Stevens on Celebrity Traitors!

The clueless expression on Jack's face right until the end, when they voted him out

Edited Monday at 17:091 day by Auld Lang Peen!

17 minutes ago, Auld Lang Peen! said:

The clueless expression on James' face right until the end, when they voted hom out

Jack?

Stephen should’ve turned on Rachel.

52 minutes ago, James. said:

Stephen should’ve turned on Rachel.

No way!!!!! First ever double traitor finale win, and he was cooked esrly series. She saved him. She got rid of her allies to help his game, too... soooo...

And like he said, remaining faithful to his team eas worth way more than the money to him.

Edited Monday at 19:221 day by Auld Lang Peen!

Rachel's Mum died. :(

Hope she managed to use some of the winnings for memories in time

Article about Jade on the BBC. Also lol at Jade basically saying she'd be good at the game because she played a lot of Among Us in thr first couple of episodes, without ever mentioning the sussy bakka game by name because of the BBC's rules

I don't think they get paid until after the series has aired so sadly I think she won't have been able to use that money for that purpose - unless of course she already had the funds available regardless.