Also combined with the banished players in the final not revealing whether they were faithful or not.
The Guardian review is quite amusing. Calling them all out for serial ‘Yourself’ abuse, which seems to be endemic on TV shows these days 
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You can add in ‘I’m not going to lie’ to that…
Bit of a damp squib think it’s pretty much done now they’re chucking in all these other ‘twists’ to keep it interesting.
Celeb one incoming no doubt.
When does Race Around the World start again?
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Definitely going to be a celeb Traitors, been confirmed for a while now. Perhaps one for the “What don’t I get?” thread but it really annoys me that any decent game show format gets celeb treatment and, in some cases, becomes just a celeb vehicle. Much rather watch ‘civilians’ play and win in any format.
As for Leanne, I was surprised she went with Jake after Frankie’s impassioned mother to mother plea. Really thought they’d recognised in each other two faithfuls who could banish all the rest and share the money
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They need to introduce actual murder. Get some Hunger Games level jeopardy into the format.
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‘Pointless Celebrities’ is very apt. Never heard of half of them.
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Can we have James Corden, Piers Morgan, Katie Hopkins and Gemma Collins in the first season please.
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Wouldn’t it be great if that was the review in The Guardian?
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There you go. Ratings smash.
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I’m editing the Celeb Traitors and then next series from this summer - fingers crossed for some interesting participants! ‘The Seer’ power had a very different outcome in this year’s US series…
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The “seer” thing was unnecessary but them not saying if they were a traitor or not boosted the tension I thought. I enjoyed it as much as last year and was pleased Jake won, seemed like a decent lad. I thought Leanne was fairly awful.
They should do a red button version where you can watch it without knowing who the traitors are.
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Say Nothing. Brilliant but also bringing bad family vibes back.
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I have vague memories of getting checked for bombs when shopping in Belfast as a kid. Was quite weird being reminded of how fortress like everything was as well. Crazy times
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Finished The Agency on Paramount.
Loved it. I was worried a US remake (of French series The Bureau) would be awful but with Jez Butterworth involved in the writing and a cast including Michael Fassbender, Jeffery Wright, Richard Gere and further famous faces it turned out to be really good. Can’t wait for Season 2.
Watch it if you like complex CIA/MI6/geo political thrillers.
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I just remember loads of rows amongst my relatives at every gathering increasing as the drinking stepped up. It was only my grandparents who’d actually lived over there too. They married across the divide so you can imagine how complicated it got.
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It was unbelievably divisive
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My Mum’s side of the family are Northern Irish (and Donegal) and most summer holidays involved a couple of weeks in Belfast, Newcastle and Donegal. Bag searches, bomb checks and armed soldiers were a normality. Pubs with cages on the doors.
It wasn’t until I was older that the craziness of it all hit home. Love the place and am always blown away how different it is now. Thank fuck!
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My mum’s Irish Catholic, dad Scottish Protestant.
Sunday lunch 
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Same here! My granny and grandad were not best pleased at the time apparently
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sounds very familiar, I had a great aunt who referred to me and my siblings as ‘the wee bastards’ when we were too young to understand what it meant
My Dad tried to hire a van in Leicester in the late 70’s and when he gave them his name they called the Police. He also had his car pulled apart at the Jersey ferry customs/border.
Me and my Brother were both taunted with ‘Bomber’ at school in the 80’s (in England)
I can laugh about it now but at the time it was fucking terrible
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