Richard E Grant has one hope of lasting on Celebrity Traitors: lean into his eccentricity | Stuart Heritage

Chats with inanimate objects, farting into Tupperware: this cornered animal must sell his confession as just another quirk

As we all know, The Traitors is a game of deception. The entire point is to conceal your true motivations in order to better carry out a series of murders undetected. This is the way it should be, and the way it always was. And then Richard E Grant came along.

Grant’s trajectory during the opening episode of Celebrity Traitors was as follows. Step one: be selected as a traitor by Claudia Winkleman. Step two: immediately tell everyone you are a traitor.