Celebrity Traitors: Rob Beckett murdered as Ross Kemp draws suspicion in series two

Beckett murdered in the castle

Rob Beckett, the 40-year-old comedian and father of two, was murdered face to face by the traitors in the fifth episode of The Celebrity Traitors, series two. The killing came during a game of hide-and-seek that also involved Romesh Ranganathan, Ross Kemp and Leigh-Anne Pinnock. The faithful gave Pinnock a key that protected her from the traitors, a choice Beckett said he should have questioned, although he added that he would never have taken the key from her. Beckett said he had missed his children and felt he had completed nearly every element of the show.

I feel like I've done almost all of it.

Suspicion falls on Ross Kemp

Ross Kemp, the former EastEnders star and documentary maker, said he was angry because the traitors had made him stand out. He had been kept above ground during the grave-digging task, which spared him from being buried. In the same episode he was one of four celebrities left alone in a tomb until one of them was killed, a set-up that was meant to make the faithful suspect him and pull attention away from the real traitors. Joanne McNally said Kemp had not blinked since the group arrived at the castle. Kemp summed up his frustration in one line.

They're using me like a donkey.

Acaster calls it a chaos murder

James Acaster described the killing of Beckett as a chaos murder, arguing that the faithful tend to read too much into every move. Ranganathan said he was genuinely saddened the next morning, calling Beckett one of his closest friends and saying the group would miss him. Beckett had joked that Ranganathan would avenge him, and he hopes the loss will sharpen his sleuthing.

This is a bunch of faithful who read into everything.

Hannah Fry's giveaways

Hannah Fry, the 42-year-old Cambridge mathematician who was banished at the roundtable, has explained the work she had planned to use as a faithful. Speaking on Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked with Ed Gamble, she said she had studied earlier series in advance and had used the same technique Alan Turing used to crack the Enigma machine, the cipher device used by the German military in the Second World War. She listed three signs: traitors make a burn vote in the first three episodes, they banish fellow traitors they have never voted for, and they avoid being seen together. She said Acaster and Jama had slightly given themselves away by switching their votes from Julie to her, a move few other players have made. Fry said she was devastated not to use her findings but still enjoyed the series.

Behind the bedtime routines

The brief bedtime scenes that show faithful at their most eccentric are usually filmed the day after a contestant is banished, according to producers. The production team talks with cast members early on about what could work for their scene, and executive producer Katy Fox said the team speaks to players about the routines they would like so that each one suits their personality. Charlotte from series three once asked to be filmed learning Welsh from a book, and she said a friend had ordered it so it arrived in time for filming.