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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Richard E Grant has one hope of lasting on Celebrity Traitors: leaning into his eccentricity

Richard E Grant wearing a hooded cloak and carrying a lantern on The Celebrity Traitors
Genius or idiot? No one has played The Traitors quite like this before. Photograph: Euan Cherry/Studio Lambert/BBC/PA

As we all know, The Traitors is a game of deception. The entire point is to conceal your true motivations in order to better carry out a series of murders undetected. This is the way it should be, and the way it always was. And then Richard E Grant came along.

Grant’s trajectory during the opening episode of Celebrity Traitors was as follows. Step one: be selected as a traitor by Claudia Winkleman. Step two: immediately tell everyone you are a traitor.

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