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'I played the wrong game': Amol Rajan admits Celebrity Traitors mistake after becoming first murder victim

From the Newshound archive · first published 3 October 2026 · last updated 4 October 2026.

'I played the wrong game': Amol Rajan admits Celebrity Traitors mistake after becoming first murder victim

Amol Rajan, 43, has confessed he warned himself to 'just shut up' before entering the castle but couldn't stop asking awkward questions, making him an easy target. Richard E Grant and Maya Jama chose to recruit comedian James Acaster instead, sealing Rajan's fate in the chapel coffin. Rajan said the experience was 'one of the most intense of my life' and praised Acaster as a 'brilliant' traitor pick.

Richard E Grant is already under mounting suspicion after accidentally telling multiple fellow contestants he was a Traitor on night one.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock was secretly three months pregnant during filming and kept her bump hidden from producers and co-stars under winter layers.

Fans were left stunned to discover James Blunt's military past — the singer once refused a US general's order to attack Russian troops in Kosovo, reportedly preventing a wider war.

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