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Ex-Traitors players talk tactics and celebrity final predictions

Celebrity Traitors drew 10.7 million viewers to its semi-final, and an eighty-minute finale followed; the show now has a BBC deal running to twenty thirty.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorStill thinking about that commander's exit interview, Kenji. Anyway, former Traitors players are sharing tactics ahead of the celebrity final.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe semi-final pulled ten point seven million viewers, the biggest live audience the show has had.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd James Acaster confessed to being a Traitor at the roundtable, which Yahoo News Australia calls a show first.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA confession! On a show about lying! I think that's the most honest thing anyone's done on television.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwenty-one celebrities, a whole castle, and nobody tried just saying it.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThen King Kenny got banished after a tie with James Blunt that had never happened before.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNever happened before?

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRomesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft were the last Faithful standing, and the finale ran eighty minutes, the longest ever.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe BBC has the show locked in until twenty thirty. Honesty is now a three-year plan.

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