BBC releases statement as full episode of Celebrity Traitors final mistakenly released early
The following article does not contain spoilers for the finale of Celebrity Traitors.
The BBC have responded after the entire finale of Celebrity Traitors was mistakenly leaked online.
The morning of Celebrity Traitors has plunged the show into chaos after it was revealed that the entire finale was uploaded to a Canadian streaming service for 90 minutes.
Fans took to Reddit to say they had seen the finale, with major spoilers lurking in every corner of the internet as a result.
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The finale sees the game firmly in the balance, with Alan Carr and Cat Burns as the remaining Traitors facing off against Joe Marler, Nick Mohammed, and David Olusoga as the Faithful.
Whilst much of the show saw fans wondering whether a single Traitor would be voted out, Jonathon Ross was eventually the first to be caught, with Marler and Mohammed seemingly on the trail of Carr and Burns ahead of the finale of the celeb spin-off of The Traitors.
The leak will be a major blow for the BBC, with Celebrity Traitors drawing well over ten million viewers for each episode.
A spokesperson for the BBC said: ''We kindly ask anyone who thinks they know the outcome of The Celebrity Traitors to keep whatever they believe they know to themselves.
“Please avoid sharing potential spoilers so that the millions of fans who have been faithfully following every twist and turn of the series can enjoy the final this evening."
The full finale was uploaded to Canaian streaming service Crave, with some fans reporting that they logged on as normal, thinking it was going to air last night, and only realised it was a leak after the fact.
One post in the r/Traitors subreddit said: "I won’t spoil anything because it seems like we in Canada got the episode but not UK!!!
"But I LOVED this whole season!"
Though this has not been confirmed, it appears that a streaming service in New Zealand may have also uploaded the episode, with people reporting they've also seen it.
Many fans on Reddit were requesting that their Canadian and Kiwi counterparts spoil the episode for the, however many questioned why fans would want to do this.
One commented: "Why would anyone want it spoiled! 4 weeks of watching to not even carry on in the same way!"
Another said: "I wonder the same thing. Didn't expect this comment section to consist of 100 of people asking for spoilers lol.
"As long as nobody spoils it in public it's all cool though."
LADbible have decided not to share spoilers from the finale.
Topics: BBC, TV and Film, TV, The Traitors
Michael Slavin