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.