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Who won Celebrity Traitors 2026? Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft, as Faithfuls, splitting £83,000 for charity in the final on Friday 30 October. All five Traitors were banished, from Richard E. Grant in episode three to King Kenny at the fire pit. Here is how the final played out, the record audience it drew, every murder and banishment of the series, and when The Traitors is back. When is Celebrity Traitors on next? The BBC has not announced a third series yet.
The Faithfuls won
Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft split £83,000 for charity in the final on Friday 30 October.
Who won Celebrity Traitors 2026?
Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft won Celebrity Traitors 2026. Both were Faithfuls, and they split the £83,000 prize pot between their chosen charities in the final on Friday 30 October.
The winners
“I began this game as a Faithful, but I’m ending this game as a Faithful,” said Croft, who goes by Bash.
Ranganathan said he just hoped his mum was proud, and Croft called it possibly “the best day of my life”, PA reported.
This time the Faithfuls won. In the first series of Celebrity Traitors, in 2025, Alan Carr won as a Traitor.
Is Celebrity Traitors on tonight?
No. Celebrity Traitors 2026 ended with the final on Friday 30 October, and there are no more episodes this year. Every episode is on BBC iPlayer, along with Uncloaked, the companion show hosted by Ed Gamble.
The series went out on Thursday and Friday nights on BBC One for five weeks, from Thursday 1 October. For when The Traitors returns, see the dates below.
How did the Celebrity Traitors 2026 final end?
Michael Sheen was murdered at the start of the final, Maya Jama was banished at the last round table, and the fire pit then removed Leigh-Anne Pinnock, King Kenny and James Blunt, leaving Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft.
Maya Jama was the last of the original Traitors. King Kenny, her fellow Traitor, voted for her at the final round table.
That put five at the fire pit: King Kenny as the last Traitor, and Faithfuls Ranganathan, Croft, Blunt and Pinnock. Every other player voted for Pinnock first. The next vote split two each between Kenny and Blunt, so Ranganathan and Croft voted again to break the tie, and they chose Kenny.
With three Faithfuls left, the game could have ended there. Blunt chose to banish again, and Ranganathan and Croft both voted for him, PinkNews reported. Blunt said Ranganathan had “left a question mark in my head”.
Who were the Traitors in Celebrity Traitors 2026?
There were five Traitors in Celebrity Traitors 2026: Maya Jama, Richard E. Grant, James Acaster, Hannah Fry and King Kenny. All five were banished, which is how the Faithfuls won.
Claudia Winkleman picked Jama and Grant in episode one. Acaster was recruited in episode two, after he and Amol Rajan were made to plead their cases face to face, knowing one of them would be murdered.
Richard E. Grant was banished in episode three, and Fry was recruited the same night. She was banished in episode five, and King Kenny replaced her.
Acaster went in episode nine, after he admitted at the round table that he was a Traitor, saying “I was made a Traitor without wanting to be”, the Evening Standard reported. The BBC said afterwards that its “highest priority is always the safety and welfare of everyone taking part”, LADbible reported.
Every murder and banishment in Celebrity Traitors 2026
Seven players were murdered and twelve were banished across ten episodes of Celebrity Traitors 2026, from Thursday 1 October to Friday 30 October.
| Ep | Date | Who left |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday 1 October1 Oct | Nobody. Jama and Grant picked as Traitors |
| 2 | Friday 2 October2 Oct | Amol Rajan murdered |
| 3 | Thursday 8 October8 Oct | Richard E. Grant and Myha’la banished |
| 4 | Friday 9 October9 Oct | Bella Ramsey murdered, Julie Hesmondhalgh banished |
| 5 | Thursday 15 October15 Oct | Rob Beckett murdered, Hannah Fry banished |
| 6 | Friday 16 October16 Oct | Joe Lycett banished |
| 7 | Thursday 22 October22 Oct | Ross Kemp murdered, Jerry Hall banished |
| 8 | Friday 23 October23 Oct | Miranda Hart murdered. Round table tied |
| 9 | Thursday 29 October29 Oct | Sharon Rooney murdered, Joanne McNally and James Acaster banished |
| 10 | Friday 30 October30 Oct | Michael Sheen murdered, then Maya Jama, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, King Kenny and James Blunt banished |
The tied vote from episode eight was settled at the start of episode nine. King Kenny held the dagger, worth two votes, and used it to banish Joanne McNally, a Faithful.
How much did they win on Celebrity Traitors 2026?
The players won £83,000 of a possible £100,000. Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft split it between their charities, Refugee Council and Choose Love.
Of a possible £100,000, for charity
The pot stood at £64,500 going into the final, after the players matched every head to its body in episode nine’s mission for another £5,000. Ranganathan’s half goes to Refugee Council and Croft’s to Choose Love, PinkNews reported. The money goes to charity, not to the winners.
When is The Traitors back on?
Celebrity Traitors is not on again this year. The series ended on Friday 30 October, and the BBC has not yet announced when The Traitors is coming back.
The last three ordinary series of The Traitors all started in the first days of January: series two on 3 January 2024, series three on 1 January 2025 and series four on 1 January 2026. Both celebrity series have aired in the autumn.
In March, the BBC agreed a deal that keeps The Traitors and The Celebrity Traitors on the BBC until at least 2030, Advanced Television reported. We will add the dates here as soon as the BBC confirms them.
When does The Traitors start in 2027?
The BBC has not said when The Traitors starts in 2027. The last three ordinary series all began in the first days of January, but there is no confirmed date for the fifth series yet.
The fifth series is already on the way. The BBC opened applications in September 2025, and they closed on 31 May 2026, so it is too late to apply for the next series, Country & Town House reported. It expects the series in January 2027.
Will there be a Celebrity Traitors 2027?
The BBC has not announced a third series of Celebrity Traitors yet. Its deal with the producers keeps both versions of the show on the BBC until at least 2030, but no third celebrity series or date has been confirmed.
This year’s series was filmed at Ardross Castle in May and June, months before it aired. We will add a Celebrity Traitors 2027 date here as soon as the BBC announces one.
Who won Celebrity Traitors 2025?
Alan Carr won the first series of Celebrity Traitors as a Traitor, taking £87,500 for Neuroblastoma UK in the final on Thursday 6 November 2025.
Carr was one of three original Traitors, with Jonathan Ross and Cat Burns. Burns was banished at the final round table and Joe Marler at the fire pit. The last three, Carr, David Olusoga and Nick Mohammed, then voted to end the game, and because Olusoga and Mohammed were Faithfuls, the pot went to Carr’s charity, Charity Times reported.
Who was in the Celebrity Traitors 2026 cast?
Twenty-one celebrities took part in Celebrity Traitors 2026. Seven were murdered, twelve were banished, and two, Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft, won.
- Amol RajanMurdered, ep 2
- Bella RamseyMurdered, ep 4
- Hannah FryBanished, ep 5, Traitor
- James AcasterBanished, ep 9, Traitor
- James BluntBanished, final
- Jerry HallBanished, ep 7
- Joanne McNallyBanished, ep 9
- Joe LycettBanished, ep 6
- Julie HesmondhalghBanished, ep 4
- King KennyBanished, final, Traitor
- Leigh-Anne PinnockBanished, final
- Maya JamaBanished, final, Traitor
- Michael SheenMurdered, final
- Miranda HartMurdered, ep 8
- Myha’laBanished, ep 3
- Richard E. GrantBanished, ep 3, Traitor
- Rob BeckettMurdered, ep 5
- Romesh RanganathanWinner, Faithful
- Ross KempMurdered, ep 7
- Sebastian CroftWinner, Faithful
- Sharon RooneyMurdered, ep 9
Sebastian Croft is the actor who goes by Bash on the show. Every murder took a Faithful, which is how the game is meant to work.
Who is King Kenny on Celebrity Traitors?
King Kenny is YouTuber Kenny Ojuederie, and he was the last Traitor standing in Celebrity Traitors 2026. He is 29.
He is a member of Beta Squad, the YouTube collective whose members include Chunkz and Niko Omilana, and he has also boxed on the crossover circuit. He was recruited in episode five, after Hannah Fry’s banishment, and he was the one spraying the perfume for the yawn murder that killed Ross Kemp.
He won the dagger in episode eight and used its double vote to banish Joanne McNally. In the final he voted out Maya Jama, his fellow Traitor, before Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft banished him at the fire pit.
He is not Kenny Dalglish, the former Liverpool manager who shares the nickname. If you have seen that name attached to the show, that is the mix-up.
How many people watched Celebrity Traitors 2026?
The Celebrity Traitors 2026 final averaged 11.2 million viewers overnight and peaked at 11.6 million on BBC One, with 62.9% of everyone watching TV at the time, the BBC said. It was the biggest overnight audience the celebrity series has had.
Last year’s final averaged 11.1 million overnight, PA reported. Across the first nine episodes, this series averaged 9.7 million overnight, against 7.5 million for the first series, Deadline reported.
The launch episode reached 15.41 million viewers over seven days, the biggest TV audience of the year at the time, according to Barb figures reported by PA.
Episode eight, on Friday 23 October, averaged 9.5 million and peaked at 9.7 million, taking 57.2% of everyone watching TV at the time, the BBC said, as PA reported. Episode seven averaged 10 million, peaked at 10.3 million and took 59.9%, as reported by the Evening Standard.
The 15.41 million counts everyone who watched the launch within seven days, on TV sets, computers, tablets and phones. It is the highest seven-day audience for any episode of The Traitors, beating the 14.94 million for the 2025 Celebrity Traitors final, PA reported.
When and where was Celebrity Traitors 2026 filmed?
Celebrity Traitors 2026 was filmed at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands, in May and June 2026. It is the same castle used for every UK series of The Traitors.
Filming finished months before the series aired, which is why nobody in the castle knew anything viewers didn’t.
Correction: an earlier version of this page described King Kenny as football manager Kenny Dalglish. He is YouTuber Kenny Ojuederie. We have corrected the page.