The Celebrity Traitors – live

The faithful have banished one traitor and one of their own. Will they have any more luck tonight?

Romesh Ranganathan, Bella Ramsay and James Acaster in The Celebrity Traitors. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry/PAView image in fullscreenRomesh Ranganathan, Bella Ramsay and James Acaster in The Celebrity Traitors. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry/PAA quick word on the fallen. Richard, a monkey could have guessed. But the loss of Myha’la is a big one. Why, of everyone, was she banished last night? There are a few theories. The first is that she winked at Richard E Grant during his final round table and, as a commenter smartly pointed out last night, Traitors is literally a game of winking murder. Another option is that she isn’t white, and this is The Traitors, and this sort of thing happens so often that there’s literally an SNL UK sketch about it.

SNL UK Traitors sketchMy own theory, though, is that Myha’la just felt things too deeply. She was an emotional player, and the game is so new that contestants don’t need much to latch onto a suspicion. By being a bit too generous with her feelings, she gave them just enough rope to hang her with. A shame, she deserved more.

As always, a quick status update on where the remaining contestants are right now:

Maya Jama – TRAITOR. And a pretty good one, no? Threw Richard under the bus without blinking, and then put Bash up for murder purely because he expressed a flicker of a doubt about her. A stone cold killer.

James Acaster – TRAITOR. And also a pretty good one, mainly because he openly wants to murder James Blunt.

Professor Hannah Fry – TRAITOR. Freshly recruited. She needs to let her nerves settle before we can see how good she is.

Bella Ramsey – FAITHFUL. Up for murder. This is because they are too openly clever. As everyone knows, the best way to win at Traitors is to be deliberately stupid. This means that Bella has reached an event horizon of cleverness that has ultimately rendered them quite rubbish.

Sebastian Croft – FAITHFUL. Up for murder. He made the mistake of doubting Maya Jama, which could be fatal.

James Blunt – FAITHFUL. Up for murder. And, you know, yes please.

Joanne McNally – FAITHFUL. Joanne has thus far characterised herself by being woefully wrong about literally everything at every single point in the game so far, to the extent that you could quite easily win Traitors purely by doing the opposite of what she does or thinks.

Jerry Hall – FAITHFUL. Same as Joanne, but with a voice that makes her sound like a Teddy Ruxpin that will imminently run out of batteries. Also, I got a DM last night from James Brown from Loaded, pointing out that she ‘has gone full Moira Rose’.

Michael Sheen – FAITHFUL. James Acaster is arbitrarily gunning for him, and this is the most interesting thing about him so far.

Ross Kemp – FAITHFUL. The early paranoia has worn off now, leaving him as simply a bald middle-aged man prone to sudden bursts of incomprehensible anger. Ross, I can relate.

Miranda Hart – FAITHFUL. Slowly coming into her own now, but surely her moment of greatness is still to come.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock – FAITHFUL. But a faithful doubted by the masses, because she put on some makeup quite late at night. Tragically, this remains her only identifiable characteristic.

View image in fullscreenThe Celebrity Traitors S2, Leigh-Anne Pinnock Photograph: Euan Cherry/BBC/Studio LambertJulie Hesmondhalgh – FAITHFUL. Yesterday revealed herself to be highly competitive. She’s chasing down some weird rabbit holes at the moment, so this will come back to bite her.

Sharon Rooney – FAITHFUL. You know, I think Sharon is emerging as my favourite faithful. She is playing the game stupendously well, as evidenced by how little we’ve seen of her so far.

Joe Lycett – FAITHFUL. Again, though, the contestants are turning against him, for reasons I cannot be bothered to fully interrogate.

Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan – FAITHFUL. I’m lumping these two together for now, since all they offer are minimal contributions and occasional Jerry Hall impersonations. King Kenny – FAITHFUL. Literally forgot he was even on the show until I saw him on this list, so that bodes well.

Hello fellow 100% self-annihilating hundies, and welcome to The Guardian’s liveblog of The Celebrity Traitors episode four. And, well, it looks like we’ve finally got a game on our hands, doesn’t it?

Let’s essentially write off the first two episodes, because they achieved very little. By acting like a colossal durr-brain during the first episode, Richard E Grant turned Week One into The Richard E Grant Show, but now the others have seen sense and banished him.

As we left things yesterday, Richard was gone. But rather than murdering Hannah Fry, James Acaster and Maya Jama chose to recruit her. Now suspicion is flying everywhere, Myha’la got caught in the crossfire and found herself banished, and three contestants of varying quality find themselves in the firing line.

View image in fullscreenThe Celebrity Traitors S2 Photograph: Euan Cherry/BBC/Studio LambertWe’ll get into that soon enough though. Tonight’s episode begins at 8pm, and I would happily welcome your company. In fact, let’s get going there? Who do you want to get murdered tonight: Bash, Bella Ramsey or James Blunt? Comment below and I’ll be back with you shortly.