For a show that likes to keep participants and viewers on the edges of their seats, gripped by suspense and skullduggery, it was ironic that Friday’s episode of The Celebrity Traitors came down to which one of its stars would die of boredom.
The climactic final scene switched between a series of faces as we waited to see which of the famous faithful would… yawn.
Some dramatic editing and music attempted to build fevered anticipation, but this was a slow-motion, low-energy premise for a murder in plain sight.
The trio of traitors had been tasked with being as boring as possible, and yawned theatrically in one of the castle’s communal rooms in the hope that their apparent fatigue would be contagious.
