The Traitors | Preview (BBC One)
Claudia Winkleman greets 22 strangers as they arrive at a beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands to play the ultimate reality game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £120,000.
And it’s not long before the players are questioning everything, and everyone, as Claudia secretly assigns three traitors. It is up to the traitors, under the cover of darkness, to pick off their fellow players one by one, murdering them from the game.
The rest of the players, the faithful, must try to work out who the traitors are and banish them from the game before they become their next victim. The lucky ones who survive to the end will have the chance of winning that life-changing cash. But if a traitor remains undetected, they will take all the money.
Claudia Winkleman says: “I’m obsessed by psychological games and I couldn’t stop watching the Dutch version of the show. The fact that the BBC version is set in a castle in Scotland and the producers want me to wear tweed meant I was all in.”
MEET THE CONTESTANTS
Name: Nicky
Age: 45
Job title: Accounts Supervisor
Location: South Croydon
Name: Tom
Age: 24
Job title: Magician
Location: Buckinghamshire
Name: Maddy
Age: 29
Occupation: Receptionist
Location: Kent
Name: Imran
Age: 23
Job title: Scientist
Location: Cambridge
Name: Meryl
Check age: 25
Occupation: Call Centre Agent
Living: Edinburgh
Name: Kieran
Age: 42
Occupation: Solutions Consultant
Location: Hertfordshire
Name: John
Age: 49
Occupation: Spa Therapist
Location: Edinburgh
Name: Aaron
Age: 24
Job title: Property Agent
Location: Portsmouth
Name: Claire
Age: 43
Occupation: Ex-Police Officer and Entrepreneur
Location: Hull
Name: Fay
Age: 59
Job title: Head of School Welfare
Location: Suffolk
Name: Hannah
Age: 32
Occupation: Comedian
Location: London
Name: Amanda
Age: 54
Job title: Estate Agent
Location: Swansea
Name: Amos
Age: 30
Occupation: Doctor
Location: North London
Name: Andrea
Age: 72
Job title: Retired
Location: Belgium
Name: Alyssa
Age: 21
Job title: Business Student
Location: Grew up in rural West Cork, now lives in Edinburgh
Name: Alex
Age: 26
Occupation: Presenter and Actor
Location: London
Name: Aisha
Age: 23
Occupation: Masters Graduate
Location: Manchester
Name: Ivan
Age: 32
Job title: Author
Location: Cornwall
Name: Wilfred
Age: 28
Occupation: Senior Fundraiser
Location: North London
Name: Matt
Age: 23
Occupation: BMX Athlete
Location: Hertfordshire
Name: Theo
Age: 26
Occupation: Cheerleading Coach
Location: Leeds
Name: Rayan
Age: 25
Job title: Trainee Lawyer
Location: North London
The Traitors is a Studio Lambert Scotland production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, beginning on Tuesday 29th November at 9:30pm.