Celebrity Traitors first victim revealed after Amol Rajan and James Acaster chosen for cliffhanger ending

The first player to fall on Celebrity Traitors has been revealed after last night's cliff-hanger where James Acaster and Amol Rajan were both up for the chop, with the survivor recruited into team traitor.

The pair of chosen traitors Maya Jama and Richard E Grant decided they'd close the coffin lid on the journalist and recruit the comedian, even though Acaster had made it clear he really wanted to stay faithful.

"I hope that doesn't happen. I’d like to be a Faithful," he'd said on the show.

"This is the only time I’ll be able to play it, and I like being in a position of figuring something out rather than having the information the Traitors have."

However, he was chosen because he'd been one of the main players going after Richard after the celebrated actor had told the group he was a traitor just a few minutes after being picked.

Sorry Amol, you're out, sorry James, you're a traitor (BBC)

The signs were there from before Celebrity Traitors was broadcast after clues that Acaster was in the show for at least a decent amount of time, and anyone who was betting on Rajan to stick around will have lost out.

While the move to recruit James Acaster was the hope of team traitor to flip one of their main opponents to their side, and indeed just after breakfast Julie Hesmondhalgh told him she considered him a 'traitor hunter'.

It might be a bit early to be calling people that when they haven't caught anyone yet, and Julie's not to know that she was right to think Acaster on the money but had no idea he'd already been flipped to the other team.

Since the faithfuls have so little to go on, someone directly saying they're a traitor is bound to cause suspicion, the kind that's hard to shift throughout the game and its many episodes.

Even if he survives tonight's action can he expect to survive much longer?

When is the next episode of Celebrity Traitors?

The next episode of Celebrity Traitors will air at 8pm Friday (2 October) on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, then as follows:

• Episode three - Thursday, 8 October at 8pm
• Episode four - Friday 9, October at 8pm
• Episode five - Thursday, 15 October at 8pm
• Episode six - Friday, 16 October at 8pm
• Episode seven - Thursday, 22 October at 8pm
• Episode eight - Friday, 23 October at 8pm
• Episode nine - Thursday, 29 October at 8pm
• Episode 10 - Friday, 30 October at 8pm