Celebrity Traitors semi-final attracts highest peak audience of series

The Celebrity Traitors semi-final drew in the highest peak audience of the series, with 10.7 million tuning in.The dramatic penultimate episode of the hit reality gameshow was watched by an average of 10.3 million viewers with a 62% share, according to the BBC.Thursday night’s episode saw comedian James Acaster, 41, admit to being a traitor to his fellow players during the roundtable, before being banished from the castle.James Acaster was banished from the castle in the semi-final of The Celebrity Traitors (Cody Burridge/Studio Lambert/BBC/PA)PA MediaThe show has been a ratings winner for the broadcaster.The second series of the show premiered at the start of October and was the most watched debut episode of any series of the programme in the UK, with an average of 8.9 million viewers and a peak of 9.1 million.It followed on from the success of the first series of the celebrity spin-off, which debuted last autumn with an overnight audience of 6.1 million, according to the BBC.Its nail-biting finale hit a peak of 15.4 million viewers – the biggest TV audience of 2025.James Acaster admitted he was a traitor in the latest roundtable (BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry/PA)PA MediaThe civilian edition of The Traitors, which launched in 2022, is also highly successful and brought in an overnight audience of 6.4 million for its recent series premiere in January.Its finale became the most watched in the history of that version, with a peak audience of 9.6 million.Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the show sees 21 celebrity contestants try to seek out the traitors among them who “kill off” players in the middle of the night.The Celebrity Traitors final will air on BBC One at 8pm on Friday.