{"id":266555,"date":"2026-10-03T00:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/richard-e-grant-accidentally-reveals-hes-a-traitor-on-celebrity-traitor-minutes-after-being-chosen\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:50:33","slug":"richard-e-grant-accidentally-reveals-hes-a-traitor-on-celebrity-traitor-minutes-after-being-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/richard-e-grant-accidentally-reveals-hes-a-traitor-on-celebrity-traitor-minutes-after-being-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard E. Grant Accidentally Reveals He\u2019s a Traitor on \u2018Celebrity Traitor\u2019 Minutes After Being Chosen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD for the season two premiere of <em>The Celebrity Traitors<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/richard-e-grant\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Richard E. Grant<\/strong><\/a> made a pretty major mistake almost immediately after being selected as a Traitor!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 69-year-old actor is competing on the second season of the BBC reality series, which returned on Thursday night (October 1) with <strong>Claudia Winkleman<\/strong> once again serving as host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the premiere, <strong>Claudia<\/strong> secretly selected <strong>Richard <\/strong>and<strong> Maya Jama<\/strong> as the first two Traitors of the season. However, <strong>Richard <\/strong>apparently got a little too excited about landing the coveted role and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czxe30796xno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accidentally told his fellow contestants the truth at the bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-how-did-richard-e-grant-reveal-he-was-a-traitor\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How did Richard E. Grant reveal he was a Traitor?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the contestants left the Round Table, comedian <strong>Joe Lycett<\/strong> started asking people whether they were playing as a Faithful or a Traitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When <strong>Joe <\/strong>turned the question on <strong>Richard<\/strong>, the actor simply responded, \u201cA Traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His answer immediately stunned the group, but <strong>Richard <\/strong>initially continued to play along, asking what the point of being in the game was if he wasn&#8217;t a Traitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confession was so unexpected that some of the other celebrities seemed to assume he had to be joking. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jerry-hall\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Jerry Hall<\/strong><\/a>, who has known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/richard\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Richard <\/strong><\/a>for decades, was among those who questioned whether he would actually reveal such important information if it were true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once he had time to process what happened, <strong>Richard<\/strong> acknowledged in a confessional that the excitement of being selected had gotten the better of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Well that may be the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life. I was so thrilled to have been chosen as a Traitor, that in my unguarded excitement, I said, Of course, I&#8217;m a Traitor. I clearly need to diffuse all the heat that&#8217;s coming in my direction. Oh, brother!&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/lifestyle\/tv\/richard-e-grant-makes-biggest-34704487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Richard<\/strong>&#8216;s mistake became one of the biggest talking points from the premiere, which attracted an average overnight audience of 8.9 million viewers in the U.K., nearly three million more than the first celebrity season&#8217;s debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Celebrity Traitors<\/em> airs Thursday and Friday nights on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/02\/celebrity-traitors-cast-revealed-20-stars-to-compete-on-bbc-series\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out the full cast for season two of <em>Celebrity Traitors<\/em><\/a>, which also includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/bella-ramsey\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Bella Ramsey<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/michael-sheen\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Michael Sheen<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/james-blunt\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">James Blunt<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/leigh-anne-pinnock\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Leigh-Anne Pinnock<\/strong><\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/10\/02\/richard-e-grant-accidentally-reveals-hes-a-traitor-on-celebrity-traitor-minutes-after-being-chosen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard E. Grant Accidentally Reveals He&#8217;s a Traitor on &#8216;Celebrity Traitor&#8217; Minutes After Being Chosen!<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News, Entertainment News &amp; Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/10\/02\/richard-e-grant-accidentally-reveals-hes-a-traitor-on-celebrity-traitor-minutes-after-being-chosen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD for the season two premiere of The Celebrity Traitors! Richard E. Grant made a pretty major mistake almost immediately after being selected as a Traitor! The 69-year-old actor is competing on the second season of the BBC reality series, which returned on Thursday night (October 1) with Claudia Winkleman once again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}