BBC bosses are absolutely livid after dishing out a stern dressing-down to the Celebrity Traitors cast for blabbing spoilers left and right — even after leaks already wrecked the big reveal!
Just days after Claudia Winkleman’s nail-biting murder mystery finale got spoiled online, chatty host Jonathan Ross spilled the beans: execs slapped the entire lineup with a massive “no-talk” list straight from their contracts.
The cheeky presenter admitted he’d already fluffed it by gabbing about axed scenes — including pure comedy gold from Traitor Alan Carr that never saw the light of day.
Chatting on the Reel Talk podcast yesterday, Ross confessed: “It’s nerve-wracking watching it for me. The round tables of course… Because a lot of stuff is edited out and I’m not allowed… I didn’t realise but I’m not allowed to talk about the stuff that’s edited out, which I can understand why.
“When I started talking about it last week, they sent us all a kind of list saying, ‘Just to remind you these are the things in your contracts you’re not allowed to talk about’.
“So I’ll skirt around it as much as possible and not break any rules. But there’s a fairly comprehensive list and most of it I can see is to protect the integrity of the game as a viewing experience for people, so it makes perfect sense.”
The smash-hit show’s twists are now locked down tighter than Fort Knox at the BBC.
Ross had already teased last week that mountains of brilliance hit the cutting-room floor. He raved: “Obviously, there’s so much left on the cutting room floor. There are so many moments. There are so many funny things Alan Carr did and said, which I know already should have been the first episode, should have been the second episode.
“There’s something that happens later on that I know which should be in but isn’t in. And it’s like, there’s this Alan Carr gold waiting out there to be spun into them.”
Actress Ruth Codd dished there was an “unseen hierarchy” among the contestants, filmed inside Scotland’s spooky Ardross Castle.
Insiders also whisper a monster bust-up between genius Stephen Fry and historian David Olusoga got brutally chopped.
Online rumours about the winner are swirling like mad — but The Sun is keeping shtum.
The Celebrity Traitors rolls on tomorrow at 9pm, with the explosive finale hitting screens next Thursday!