Rob Beckett murdered by the Traitors in Thursday's Celebrity Traitors episode

Mixed · 2Comedian Rob Beckett was revealed on Thursday's episode of the BBC's Celebrity Traitors to be the latest Faithful murdered by the Traitors. 1 2 Centre · 1The Evening Standard describes him as the third Faithful to be murdered. 1 Mixed · 2He was killed face-to-face during a game of hide-and-seek that also involved Faithfuls Romesh Ranganathan, Ross Kemp and Leigh-Anne Pinnock; the Daily Mail says Beckett was hiding in the crypt when Acaster told him he had been murdered, which left the other three safe for the night. 1 2

Centre · 1Acaster called Beckett "the random choice" when the Traitors picked their victim, saying: "If it's Rob, it's like, 'Why was it Rob?'" 1 Mixed · 2Beckett took the news with humour, saying it was good news for the Faithfuls because he was "nowhere near getting" Jama and Acaster, and that his "boy Romesh Ranganathan will avenge my death, and he will get them". 1 2 Mixed · 2Ranganathan said he felt he had "let Rob Beckett down", because Beckett was so unthreatening he would never be banished and was "the guy that we should have given the key to"; the key is a special item that stops the Traitors murdering a player, and the Faithfuls had instead given it to Pinnock. He called Beckett one of his best friends and said it would not be the same without him. 1 2

Right · 1Host Claudia Winkleman quipped, "You could say Beckett has kicked the bucket," admitting the joke took her 45 minutes to come up with, according to the Daily Mail. 2 Right · 1The Daily Mail also reports that in the episode's trial the celebrities had to pull two carts of gold, worth £8,000, past gates to escape a "death parade", and that they won the money; Acaster, Ranganathan, Joanne McNally, Jerry Hall, Jama and Fry were caught and locked up until the roundtable. 2 Right · 1At the roundtable that followed, Fry, a Traitor, was banished in a landslide vote, leaving Jama, in the Mail's account, to say she had lost another Traitor; Winkleman said the group had now banished two Faithfuls and two Traitors. 2

Centre · 1Earlier in the series, Julie Hesmondhalgh was banished, Bella Ramsey was killed, and Myha'la and Richard E Grant were voted out; the Standard says the fourth episode peaked at 9.6 million viewers. 1 Right · 1The Daily Mail adds that Myha'la had said online that "unconscious racial and cultural bias exists" in the game, while defending her co-stars and saying she had "sealed my own fate". 2