The Traitors are closer than ever to winning the series, and Miranda Hart's murder proves it

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Celebrity Traitors season two

This season of The Celebrity Traitors is shaping up to be a rough one for the Faithfuls – and tonight's murder proves it.

Despite having all the odds stacked against them in recent episodes, Maya Jama, King Kenny and James Acaster are having a very easy time picking off their co-stars one-by-one in the turret while allowing the Faithful to do a very good job at banishing each other.

After yawning Ross Kemp to death in a painfully obvious murder in plain sight, the Traitors were dealt another victory when their only witness, Jerry Hall, was banished for spending too much time with her head in the clouds.

Triumphant from the roundtable, the trio retreated to the tower and decided to kill off Miranda Hart.

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By killing off Miranda, the Traitors have not only been able to eliminate one of the strongest Faithfuls in the game, but her murder will likely bring about the downfall of Joanne McNally.

With Joanne being the person Miranda was most suspicious of after yesterday's challenge, her murder will shift more heat onto the comedian, who's made a number of slip-ups during recent roundtables.

The heat on Joanne was cemented with Sebastian 'Bash' Croft and Sharon Rooney's respective confessionals afterwards, when both actors named Joanne as the contestant they suspected the most, thanks to Miranda's floorboard comments triggering a strong reaction from the 43-year-old.

While the rest of the group are at a loss when it comes to the loss of the actor and comedian Maya, Kenny and James can work on dividing up the rest of the group into 'strong' and 'weak' Faithfuls.

After doing that, they can sit back and let the Faithfuls tear each other apart while picking off stronger members each night in the turret.

Will Miranda's murder spell the end of the road for Joanne? (BBC)

So is there a way for the Faithful to turn the game around and win? Yes, if they're willing to throw all their weight behind Michael Sheen's roundtable theory.

During the discussion, the Good Omens actor made the point that the group needs to come together and work on identifying the strongest Faithfuls in the group, a comment which many believe led to Jerry's banishment.

Banishing one of their own will certainly feel like an own-goal for the Faithful, but a strong team should be able to deduce that the only other two people who spent an extended amount of time with Ross on the evening of his murder were Maya and James.

The Celebrity Traitors continues on BBC One and BBC iPlayer