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Claudia teases 'extraordinary' Traitors twist as fans speculate about new red cloak

Claudia teases 'extraordinary' Traitors twist as fans speculate about new red cloakBBCWinkleman said viewers could expect some "juicy roundtables" in the forthcoming series of The TraitorsClaudia Winkleman has teased some "truly extraordinary" twists in the forthcoming series of The Traitors, after a recent trailer hinted at a major change to the show's format. Viewers have been sharing their theories on social media after a teaser released on Christmas Day showed a figure wearing a red cloak, in a departure from the usual green worn by the traitors. "All I will say is there's something new, and what happens in this series is truly extraordinary with moments that made me gasp," Winkleman said ahead of the series launch. Details of the new twist will not be revealed until the show's fourth regular series begins at 20:00 GMT on New Year's Day. The new red cloak was revealed in a Christmas Day trailer on BBC One"I can't wait for people to see it," Winkleman added. "The producers have the greatest minds on earth."The red cloak has not been seen in past series, and fans have speculated that a new role could be assigned to one of this year's contestants. Claudia Winkleman: The rise and rise of the Traitors hostMammoth ratings as Celebrity Traitors comes to a nail-biting endPrevious series of The Traitors have seen Winkleman choose three traitors from a group of more than 20 contestants, although more traitors can be recruited later depending on how the game plays out.

A figure wearing a red cloak on The Traitors, and Claudia Winkleman sitting on a chair in the Traitors castle

A figure wearing a red cloak on The Traitors, and Claudia Winkleman sitting on a chair in the Traitors castle

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  • The other players are known as the faithful. Although the meaning of the red cloak and details of who might be wearing it are under wraps for now, Winkleman told journalists earlier this month that the next series "gets pretty twisty"."The people who create the show, they have to keep on changing it," she explained, "and they tell me ideas, and I'm like, 'Are you joking?'"So, yeah, I love it."Cat Burns and Alan Carr starred in the first series of The Celebrity Traitors in the autumnWinkleman also remarked that the confrontations between contestants are "hardcore" in this series.
  • "We get some very juicy roundtables," she said.
  • "It gets very heated...
  • it gets ugly."We've never seen it played like this brilliant cast play it.
  • They play it in such an extraordinary way."You think, I've seen this, it's going to go down this route - and all I can say is it absolutely doesn't."The new series comes just two months after the conclusion of the show's first celebrity spin-off, which was one of the biggest TV hits of 2025."We were blown away by how successful The Celebrity Traitors was," said Mike Cotton, creative director of production company Studio Lambert."We had parents coming up to us and thanking us for reintroducing them to watching TV with their teenagers and children, because it came to be a huge family viewing event.
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