Claudia Winkleman and her band of traitors returned to screens on the BBC , and for the second time since the concept's premiere, her cohort of contestants included some of Britain's most famous faces. At the first Round Table, she selected her traitors and entrusted Maya Jama and Richard E Grant with the task of murdering the rest of their castmates over the course of five weeks. While some fans were thrilled at the prospect of watching the Saltburn star kill off his peers, others revealed their disappointment that a certain someone did not make the cut.
Taking to online forums, avid watchers of the game show expressed their frustration that singer James Blunt was not part of the traitors line-up, despite being one of the series's "biggest windup merchants". They explained the hitmaker should have been chosen for his well-documented humour that he shares with his followers on social media and claimed the wrong choice had been made by the former Strictly Come Dancing presenter.
"Gutted that James Blunt wasn't picked as a traitor, as I doubt many, if any, people on there know just how big a windup merchant he is," one user penned on a Reddit forum discussing episode one. On X, anoth...