The BBC has confirmed the full line-up for The Celebrity Traitors series two, with Claudia Winkleman set to welcome 21 famous faces to the Scottish Highlands later this year.
The RTS and BAFTA Craft Award-winning celebrity spin-off will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2026, with a new cast heading into The Traitors castle to play the ultimate game of deception, betrayal and suspicious side-eye. Made by Studio Lambert Scotland, the 10-part series will once again see celebrities compete for a cash prize of up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice.
The confirmed line-up: Amol Rajan, Bella Ramsey, James Acaster, James Blunt, Jerry Hall, Joanne McNally, Joe Lycett, Julie Hesmondhalgh, King Kenny, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Maya Jama, Michael Sheen, Miranda Hart, Myha’la, Professor Hannah Fry, Richard E. Grant, Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Ross Kemp, Sebastian Croft and Sharon Rooney.
It is a properly stacked mix of actors, comedians, presenters, musicians, broadcasters and internet personalities, which this format thrives on. Michael Sheen feels like an inspired choice for a game built on theatrical suspicion, while Maya Jama brings the kind of confident presence that could make her one to watch round the table. After handling years of Love Island re-couplings, betrayals and dramatic fire pit reveals, a few cloaked Traitors might not scare her too much. There is also plenty for TV fans to get excited about, from My Mad Fat Diary star Sharon Rooney, giving us a Scottish contestant to root for, weeheey, to Miranda Hart, whose warmth and comic timing could make her either the most trusted faithful or the perfect secret Traitor. Add in Heartstopper actor Sebastian Croft, former Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock and screen legend Richard E. Grant, and the line-up has something for everyone regardless of which era of telly you grew up with.
The first series of The Celebrity Traitors debuted on BBC One and iPlayer in October 2025 and became a major success for the broadcaster, averaging 14.9 million viewers across the run and peaking at 15.4 million for the finale. It also gave us Alan Carr at his most brilliantly Alan Carr, which frankly should count as its own national television event. The fourth series of The Traitors, which aired in January 2026, also delivered huge numbers, averaging 12.5 million viewers per episode.
For CultureCues, this second celebrity series looks like one of the biggest TV events of the year. With this many big personalities crammed into one castle, the paranoia is going to be off the charts before the first round table even starts. If series one taught us anything, it is that there are few things more entertaining than watching celebrities attempt to lie with a straight face. And when it all unravels, as it always does, those banishment scenes are going to be television gold. Cloaks at the ready, because this castle is about to get very interesting.
The Celebrity Traitors series two will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer later in 2026.
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