Joe Lycett banished from The Celebrity Traitors, revealed as a Faithful
Comedian Joe Lycett was banished from The Celebrity Traitors on Friday night and revealed that he was a Faithful. He had loudly said he wanted to be made a Traitor, and a slip at the round table sealed his fate. The episode ended on a cliffhanger, with Ross Kemp and Jerry Hall the targets of a murder in plain sight.
Comedian Joe Lycett was banished from The Celebrity Traitors in episode six on Friday night, the Evening Standard, Radio Times and the Daily Mail reported. He revealed that he was a Faithful, all three reported.
Lycett had openly said he wanted to be recruited as a Traitor, the Evening Standard, Radio Times and the Daily Mail reported. At breakfast, the players learned a recruitment had taken place, and suspicion fell on Lycett, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail reported. The new Traitor was King Kenny, Radio Times and the Daily Mail reported.
At the round table, Lycett suggested the Traitors would have to recruit again if he were banished, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail reported. He got almost every vote, the Evening Standard reported. "I always wanted to start as a Faithful and end as a Traitor," Lycett said, according to the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail.
Miranda Hart was in tears after the vote, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail reported. "I physically couldn't write your name down," Hart said to Lycett, the Daily Mail reported.
After his exit, Lycett said he was disappointed not to become a Traitor. "I am disappointed, because that was my dream," he said, according to Radio Times. "I tried to straddle both, and I was being greedy and I was rightly punished for it," he said, according to Radio Times.
Later in the episode, the Traitors were instructed to murder in plain sight by getting a victim to yawn in a room sprayed with a supposedly deadly powder, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail reported. Ross Kemp and Jerry Hall were lured into the room, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail reported. The episode ended before viewers learned who would be murdered, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail reported. Hannah Fry, a Traitor, was banished on Thursday's episode, the Evening Standard reported.
What we know: Lycett was banished as a Faithful, and the Traitors' plain-sight murder attempt was left unresolved.
What we don't: Whether Kemp or Hall was murdered, which the next episode will reveal.
Where outlets agree The Evening Standard, Radio Times and the Daily Mail all report that Lycett was banished on Friday and revealed he was a Faithful.
Where they differ The outlets cited here report the same key facts so far.