11 Nov 2025

The psychology behind The Celebrity Traitors

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 11 November 2025

The biggest television show on UK screens this year, spanning young viewers and old, is a reality TV show called Celebrity Traitors UK.

If you're not familiar, it's a game of social deduction: some competitors are Faithful, and some are Traitors, and the Faithful don't know who's who. How do they figure it out? Chaos ensues. The UK celebrity edition also adds big personalities and legacies like Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie and Tom Daley into the mix.

Dan Baumgardt is from the University of Bristol's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and is also a Traitors megafan.

He joins Emile Donovan.