'Celebrity Traitors': Hannah Fry's banishment, Rob Beckett's murder and a 'creepy' death march

The key facts

The traitors murdered Rob Beckett; James Acaster called it a 'chaos murder'
Hannah Fry was banished at the round table — even her fellow traitors voted for her
King Kenny became the new traitor; the players completed the 'death march' mission, winning all the prize money

Ross Kemp under suspicion

In the fifth episode of The Celebrity Traitors (season two), tension in the castle is rising, and Ross Kemp is unhappy: 'I'm quite angry. I've suffered at the hands of the traitors, and now they've cast suspicion on me. They're using me as a donkey.' First, the traitors left the former EastEnders star 'above ground' in the grave-digging mission, and in this episode he was one of four celebrities placed alone in the crypt, after which one of them was murdered — all to spark talk about him and divert suspicion from the real traitors. Joanna McNally believed it: 'The vibe with Ross is strange. His eyes don't close. He hasn't blinked since we've been here. He looks like a cyborg.'

The murder of Rob Beckett

The traitors murdered Rob Beckett face to face, while Romesh Ranganathan and Leigh-Anne Pinnock (who had received a key with immunity) were spared. Beckett reacted with laughter: 'I'm a dead man. And in a way that's good news for the faithful, because I was nowhere near figuring out Maya Jama and James Acaster. No chance.' He left with a veiled threat: 'I know one thing — my boy Romesh Ranganathan will avenge my death and get them.' Ranganathan sincerely mourned the loss of his friend in the morning: 'He's so harmless that he'd never be banished, so the key should have been given to him. He's also one of my best friends. I'm sad.' Comedian James Acaster, 'possibly the most reluctant traitor in recent memory,' according to the BBC, accurately called Beckett's murder a 'chaos murder': 'This is a group of faithful who find meaning in everything. They'll ask: why did this happen? And this murder has no answer, so they won't suspect us.' However, as the BBC notes, only part of the tactic worked — not all the traitors escaped suspicion.

The 'death march' and mission victory

The episode's mission — the 'death march' — made the celebrities nervous: they had to solve puzzles to avoid being captured by guards resembling Skeletor from He-Man. 'This is genuinely creepy. We're literally in a horror film,' said Pinnock as the marchers approached the edge of the forest. Michael Sheen read the instructions to the others in his finest Shakespearean voice. In the end, the players won, earning all the prize money for charity, and the mission concluded with Kemp and James Blunt striking fire with flints and igniting gunpowder to hold back the marchers. The captured players — including all three traitors, Hannah Fry, Maya Jama and James Acaster, as well as Ranganathan, Jerry Hall and McNally — were locked in a cage until the round table. This left the castle without traitors, where theories could spread freely.

Hannah Fry's banishment

At the round table, suspicion fell on several players. Kemp defended himself, pointing out that he wouldn't behave so paralysed on day one and that digging everyone's graves before the money search was not traitor behaviour. James Blunt was then briefly questioned, but the real traitor Hannah Fry bore the brunt. YouTuber King Kenny said: 'No surprise I'm going to speak to you, Hannah. I just don't understand how you're still here? If I were a traitor, you'd be one of the first I'd get rid of. But you'd also be a great traitor, because you're very smart.' This spurred a chorus of suspects. Fry defended herself: 'I was doomed from the start: either the traitors would murder me, or, as happened, the faithful would start suspecting me.' In the vote, the majority went to Fry — even her fellow traitors Jama and Acaster voted for her to appear faithful. Before her banishment, Fry said: 'I came here with one single goal — to catch the traitors. I calculated every conceivable scenario except the one that actually unfolded' — because she had been recruited mid-season. She later added: 'My fellow traitors had to vote against me. That was obvious. I didn't choose the traitor life, but, God, it was so much fun.'

New traitor — King Kenny

In the tower, despite Joe Lycett's desperate attempts to be recruited, King Kenny was chosen as the new traitor — for being such a good faithful at the round table. He even joyfully skipped around the castle with Miranda Hart and Sebastian 'Bash' Croft after Fry's capture. Upon realising who the traitors were, Kenny said: 'Guys, just don't set me up, understand? Let's just play a clean game when all three of us make it to the final, okay?' — which sounded ironic right after both had voted against their fellow traitor. The next episode airs on Friday at 20:00 BST on BBC One and iPlayer.