Traitors are close to huge advantage that will see them win series, only Michael Sheen can stop them

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Celebrity Traitors

Well, somehow, they did it. The Traitors got away with their murder in plain sight and made it through another round table.

For now on this series of The Celebrity Traitors, anyway.

Plenty of us thought James Acaster and Maya Jama had messed up the ‘boring a Faithful to death’ task at the end of last week. But the Traitors managed to murder Ross Kemp and deflect any heat from even touching them.

And now they’re very close to a huge advantage that could see them win the whole thing – possibly two Traitor wins in a row for The Celebrity Traitors. That’s according to behaviour analyst Dr Beth Dawson as she says it’s ‘the strongest’ group of Traitors we’ve had.

However, they have a rather big obstacle in the shape of one Michael Sheen.

Huge advantage is approaching

Communication expert, body language and behaviour analyst Dr Dawson points out that if the Traitors are to survive another two banishments and murders, they’ll make up half of the voting group.

“At that point, they would be able to deadlock every vote, putting them in an incredibly strong position heading into the final stages,” she says.

“I think this is arguably the strongest we've seen a starting group of Traitors play. None of them has received a single vote at the round table so far, and there is very little heat on any of them. From a psychological perspective, that is significant because it suggests they've successfully managed the group's perception of them, rather than simply avoiding individual mistakes.”

Of course, we all know The Celebrity Traitors is unpredictable, it changes so quickly and chaos can erupt at any moment. But there is no denying that Maya, James and King Kenny have made a good group so far, with very little suspicion on them.

Michael Sheen directed the Traitors to vote out Jerry (BBC)

Michael Sheen may stop them

With this year’s Faithfuls seeming to be pretty clueless so far, Sheen came up with a new strategy for the round table last night (22 October).

“Moving forward maybe we do need to think about having the strongest faithful team we can have, so if that has any bearing on people’s thinking… if we’re not sure about who to vote for,” he said.

And this led to the room voting for Jerry Hall, as she wasn’t exactly the most helpful in catching Traitors or at looking Faithful.

But her banishment isn’t great for the Traitors – it points blame around Ross’ murder to Maya and James.

No one has actually clocked that it was a forced yawn that ended his iconic run on the show but thanks to Sharon Rooney, they did figure out that it probably took place in the library, suggesting that maybe it involved the perfume bottle.

If this was the case there now are only two people left who were in the library who could’ve done this: Maya and James.

So, Sheen’s strategy may have accidentally set up suspicion for the two Traitors and it’s likely one of them is surely going to face some heat tonight. Or, the Faithfuls are going to continue playing blindly and the Traitors will dominate the group.

The Celebrity Traitors continues at 8pm tonight on BBC One and BBC iPlayer