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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

The Celebrity Traitors review – Ross Kemp really needs to get a grip

Claudia Winkleman stands in a dark jacket and tartan skirt by a lake with mountains behind
Clothes and attitude … Claudia Winkleman. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry/PA

Warning: this article contains spoilers for episode one of The Celebrity Traitors.

So – have they managed to capture lightning in a franchised bottle again? The new series of The Celebrity Traitors, more hotly anticipated than Nigella entering the Bake Off tent, is here. Twenty-one contestants of varying levels of fame, but never dipping below C-list, have signed up to endure Claudia Winkleman’s tyranny in Ardross Castle, in the hope of winning up to £100,000 for their chosen charity and a place in the nation’s consciousness and possible heart for between one week and a lifetime, depending how things work out.

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