Sparks fly at the Celebrity Traitors round table and a 'terrifying' death march

Spoiler warning: This article reveals details from the fifth episode of The Celebrity Traitors, series two.

Things are hotting up a bit in the castle, not least for Ross Kemp, who doesn't seem to be enjoying it very much.

"I'm quite angry," he said, his brow furrowing even more than usual.

"I've suffered at the hands of the traitors and now they've put heat on me, so I'm quite angry about that," he said.

Clearly they aren't hitching rides on him at the seaside - that would be another show entirely - he's referring to them pointing the finger of suspicion at him by making him stand out when he doesn't want to.

Firstly they kept the former EastEnders star and documentary maker above ground at the grave-digging task, sparing him from being buried.

In this episode, he was one of four celebrities who had to sit alone in a tomb, before one of them was murdered.

This was intended to get tongues wagging about him, deflecting suspicion away from the actual traitors.

Joanne McNally was convinced enough by this to say: "The vibe with Ross is off. His eyes do not close.

"He has not blinked since we've been here. He is giving cyborgs."

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Meanwhile poor Rob Beckett was murdered face-to-face by the traitors, while Romesh Ranganathan was spared, along with Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock, who received a key granting her immunity.

Beckett, who has wisecracked his way through the series, found being murdered hilarious.

"I'm a dead man," he grinned, when he finally saw the traitors in person.

"And in a way, this is good news for the faithful because I was nowhere near getting Maya Jama and James Acaster. No chance."

"I know one thing - my boy Ramesh Ranganathan will avenge my death and he will get them."

Ranganathan was genuinely saddened and regretful the next morning at losing his comedy comrade.

"He's so unthreatening that he's never going to get banished, so he's the guy we should have given the key to," he said.

"He also happens to be one of my best friends. I'm sad. It's not going to be the same without him."

Whether all this will sharpen his sleuthing skills, as Beckett hopes, is another matter.

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Comic James Acaster, possibly the most reluctant traitor in recent memory, accurately called killing off Beckett a "chaos murder".

"This is a bunch of faithful who read into everything," he said. "They go, why did this happen? And with this murder, there's no answer, and they won't suspect it's us."

More accurately, he should perhaps have said: "They won't suspect me or Maya," given only two-thirds of this tactic worked.

Meanwhile, the task for this episode made some of the celebrities quite jumpy.

This was despite it not involving being buried alive, drinking stinky water or diving down an old toilet, all of which wouldn't have been out of place on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

This episode's death parade saw them having to solve puzzles to avoid being seized and held captive by guards looking like Skeletor, from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

"That is genuinely terrifying," said Pinnock as the marchers approached them on the edge of a forest. "We are literally in a horror film."

Michael Sheen took each puzzle as an opportunity to flex his acting muscles, using his finest Shakespearean actor's voice to bellow out the instructions to everyone else.

He should have grabbed one of the death marchers to do a quick burst of Hamlet.

The celebrities were victorious though, winning all the prize money for charity, and the task ended with Kemp and James Blunt using flints to spark a flame, igniting some gunpowder to hold the death marchers at bay.

At the end of the task, players captured by the death marchers were held in a cage until the round table. This included all three traitors - Hannah Fry, Maya Jama and James Acaster - as well as Ranganathan, Jerry Hall and McNally

Oops, bad move. This left a traitor-free zone at the castle, where theories could fly without the traitors trying to derail them.

By they time everyone was reunited at the round table, traitor shade was being thown at several celebrities.

Kemp firstly had to defend himself, which he did by saying: "In my defence, I would say if I was picked to be a traitor, I wouldn't have been so paralysed on the first day about the hat [where he thought he was killed in plain sight].

"And the grave thing, I don't think it would be traitorous behaviour to get everybody out before you start looking for the money, so I would say that in my defence."

This seemed to work, before James Blunt was briefly questioned. But Fry - an actual traitor - came in for the most flak.