The Celebrity Traitors final – live

8.56pm GMT Five minutes to go. I’ve lost count of the amount of people who’ve asked me how I think the final will go (because I can’t count past three), and here’s my final prediction:Cat will win, after promising to split the prize with Alan and then going back on her word.However, let me refer you to the thing I linked to just now where I was wrong about absolutely everything. 8.49pm GMT And while we wait for the show to begin, please enjoy highlights of The Guardian’s legitimately extensive coverage of Celebrity Traitors from the past few weeks. Analysis of the series by former contestant Paul Gorton Michael Hogan’s highlights round-up Zoe Williams interviews Tom Daley Alan Carr vs Celia Imrie, with mention of The Fart Elle Hunt’s visit to Traitors Castle And finally, a predicted ranking of the contestants that I wrote in May and quite clearly got spectacularly wrong. As ever, you are welcome. 8.35pm GMT For those of you who have somehow chosen the final episode of the series to get into The Traitors, here are the surviving few of this year’s intake. ALAN CARR: Traitor, and increasingly the living embodiment of the Stanford Prison Experiment. At first, Carr was bumbling and embarrassed about the pressure of being a traitor. But then he had to kill Paloma Faith by touching her face, and now you’ve never seen a more gleeful murderer. Better yet, he’s so cuddly and unassuming that he has largely escaped scrutiny. OR HAS HE? CAT BURNS: Traitor, and one to watch. Like Carr, Burns has managed to slip under the radar for the entire duration of the series. This is largely because she has managed to publicly walk the line between friendly and inscrutable, but there’s a lot going on under the surface. The speed at which Burns turned on fellow traitor Jonathan Ross demonstrates an iciness that isn’t safe for anyone. DAVID OLUSOGA: Faithful. Possibly the most outwardly intelligent contestant this year, Olusoga has nevertheless been hounded by suspicion that he is a traitor. However, he has escaped banishment so many times that surely he no longer fears death. Do not rule out the possibility of him going full kamikaze. NICK MOHAMMED: Faithful, and another contestant who prides himself on strategy. That said, this is the worst performing group of faithfuls in all of human history. They have been so genuinely inept at identifying traitors that they would have had better luck letting a monkey spin a wheel, so there’s really no telling how clever he actually is. JOE MARLER: Faithful, and witchfinder general. Marler has spent the entire series desperately trying to guess and second-guess the identity of the faithfuls, a process that has largely involved him scowling at everyone as if he’s just watched them eat his lunch. Marler ended the previous episode by correctly identifying the traitors. Whether he can catch them or not tonight is anyone’s guess. 8.29pm GMT Hello fellow hundies, and welcome to The Guardian’s liveblog of the 2025 Celebrity Traitors final. Tonight, the biggest show on television reaches its epic conclusion, as we will finally learn the answer to several pressing questions. Who will win? Who will lose? Will the faithfuls identify the traitors? Will Joe Marler stare at someone so intensely that his skull explodes? Will Claudia Winkleman turn up wearing a Vileda Supermop as a jumper like she did last week? Soon we shall discover all. Before we start, though, some important housekeeping. We will not be the first people in the world to watch the final, since – as has been widely reported – it has already been uploaded in error in both Canada and New Zealand. Although Traitors fans are exceedingly good eggs, and have largely refrained from posting spoilers online, I would very much like it if we could experience the final together. Which is to say that, if you do know who won, please keep it to yourself. I’ll be back here, dipping in and out until 9pm, when the full 70-minute glory of the Celebrity Traitors final begins in earnest, and then I’ll probably liveblog the BBC Two aftershow as well, because I am kindly and generous, and also because my bosses are making me. See you soon. Updated at 8.36pm GMT