Celebrity Traitors fans have complained that Jonathan Ross has “ruined” the rest of the series by shining a light on his fellow Traitors.
The 64-year-old presenter became the first traitor to be banished from the series after three gruelling weeks of the faithfuls banishing members of their own team by mistake.
Although it was Ross’s fellow traitors Cat Burns and Alan Carr who voted for their accomplice to be banished as suspicions mounted against him, it was Ross who viewers accused of the ultimate betrayal.
“The way Jonathan looked shocked at Cat… you’re gonna give people away,” one person wrote on X (Twitter) after Ross responded to the singer’s move with notably raised eyebrows.
“Did they CLOCK Jonathan’s eyes when Cat voted for him?!” another person asked.
A third viewer added: “If any of the faithful were looking at Jonathan when Cat voted for him they’d know she was a traitor too. Any more of a facial reaction and he might as well have screamed like Alan on the bridge.”
One user claimed that Ross had been throwing Burns and Carr’s names into discussions for the entire episode, writing on social media that he was “bitter” over his imminent elimination and had “ruined the entire season” with the move.
Other fans defended the presenter, saying that Ross had given Burns and Carr a gift at the roundtable by throwing attention back onto faithful David Olusoga, who had been under suspicion earlier in the series.
Another person added of the traitor trio’s antics: “If the only way they can survive is throwing their fellow Traitors under the bus [at the] last minute they are not playing well enough.”
During his banishment, Ross tricked players by pretending to be a faithful, before revealing his true traitor status. “I am now, and I have been all through the game completely faithful...” he said, before concluding his speech: “...to the traitors.”
In the coming episodes, players will no longer reveal their true identity after being banished, meaning the faithfuls will have no idea if they are voting correctly.
The episode ended on a cliffhanger with Burns and Carr tasked with murdering one more faithful in plain sight by telling them that “parting is such sweet sorrow” at a forthcoming dinner party.
Ross appeared to hold no resentment towards Burns and Carr for aiding his banishment, as he praised the duo on the series’ aftershow Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked for playing a brilliant game. He added: “I don’t think Alan’s going to survive, but I think Cat will make it to the end.”
Celebrity Traitors continues on Thursday at 9pm on BBC One.
You can catch up with all the reactions to the latest episode on The Independent’s live blog here.
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