Claudia Winkleman to host new BBC strategy competition - The Traitors

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25 May 2022, 10:09

Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman is swapping a dancing competition for a psychological one. 

The telly host will be at the helm of new BBC One show, The Traitors, which will see players decide who they can and can’t trust while working on physical and mental challenges. 

The 12-part series has started filming in the Scottish Highlands, where the competitors will be fighting for a chance to add money into a prize pot worth up to £120,000. 

But to win the prize pot, players must survive to the end of the game – they must avoid being ‘murdered’ or ‘banished’.

At the start of the game, a small number of players are secretly selected by Claudia to be The Traitors. The rest of the players are known as ‘The Faithful’ and none of The Faithful know who The Traitors are.  

Each night, The Traitors meet in secret and decide to ‘murder’ one of The Faithful and next morning when the group meet for breakfast the ‘murdered’ player does not appear. Then, later in the day, all the players meet at the ‘Round Table’ and decide to ‘banish’ a player they suspect of being a Traitor. 

Whomever they pick will then reveal if they are indeed a Traitor or a Faithful.  At the end of the game, the few remaining players will share the prize pot if they are all Faithful, but if there is still a Traitor among them, the Traitor takes all the prize money.

In a statement, Claudia said: “I’m obsessed with psychological games and I couldn’t stop watching the Dutch version of the show. The fact that the BBC version is set in a castle in Scotland and the producers want me to wear tweed meant I was all in.”

The Traitors originates from the Netherlands, and while the series is already out over there, the BBC haven’t confirmed when we can expect to see the UK version. 

Fellow Strictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly also recently announced her next exciting project.

Tess revealed that she is currently working on a new book, which will be focused on health and well-being, and took to Instagram to tell her followers the news. 

“Well this is an exciting day because I’m happy to announce I’m working on a book!” she wrote.

The post continued: “Sometimes our lives can get so busy we forget to invest in ourselves and spend time focusing on our own health and well-being, so I wanted to channel that into my new book and share the simple steps I’ve learnt throughout the years that can have such a positive effect on how we feel!”