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Brilliant final, just wish James Blunt hadn’t voted for the final banish. Well done Bash & Romesh 👏👏👏

Loved it... Well done Faithful Romesh and Bash such a shame James voted to not end it.
If you want to see a brilliant finale see the last one of the Australian series 2 that's hysterical.

Great final - the look on James Blunt's face was priceless! Well done Romesh and Bash.

Is the Australian Traitors on iPlayer?

That was great, well done Romesh and Sebastian!

I was rooting for Kenny but I love Romash so really glad he won and so very happy at the charities they both choose brilliant Bash, whoever he is, was a clear thinker
Afraid James Blunt drives me to drink, he irritates me so much but I’m sure he’s a nice chap really The end was a good episode some of the other episodes have been poorer than other years in my opinion

I don't know. I thought it was all pretty dull but hyped up to an extraordinary extent. I thought Kenny would win but am glad he didn't. Controversially, I also wish the prize money was going to other charities but it's their choice I suppose.

Poor Blunty. To give him his due though, he stayed consistently wrong to the bitter end.

Controversially, I also wish the prize money was going to other charities but it's their choice I suppose

I immediately thought, How very BBC. Romesh is their golden boy and I presume its licence payers’ money.

But like you say, it’s their choice.

Prize money is small fry compared to other production costs I'd expect!

I'd no idea Romesh is the BBCs "golden boy" either.
Amol Rajan is that, surely?

NotSpaghetti

I'd no idea Romesh is the BBCs "golden boy" either.
Amol Rajan is that, surely?

It's Romesh and Claudia who front BBC's TV Licence self-promotions. He's got a prime time BBC Radio show, he's on goodness knows how many programmes - admittedly not all BBC. In fact he was on 3 channels pretty much all at the same time last night.

I would say he's definitely got a BBC golden aura about him right now.

I really hadn't seen that!

I think Romesh is just a very successful comedian, hadn’t even really noticed which channel he tends to be on.
Not sure why this is causing a problem.
He was pretty popular on this thread until his named charity was for refugees, surely it can’t be that 🙄

Surely not, Fallingstar.

Indeed, Romesh is on a lot of things. Other comedians even joke about it, for example on Mock the Week.
I thought the last two episodes brightened up an otherwise fairly mundane series.
I feel sad that James A is getting such a lot of flack. He looked so ill at his last round table. I think he would have been fine if he could have stayed as a faithful. He really did not want to lie. It is a pity that he was put in that position.

Are there some uncharitable thoughts about the chosen charities?

Are we told in advance what the charities are?

Nandalot

Indeed, Romesh is on a lot of things. Other comedians even joke about it, for example on Mock the Week.
I thought the last two episodes brightened up an otherwise fairly mundane series.
I feel sad that James A is getting such a lot of flack. He looked so ill at his last round table. I think he would have been fine if he could have stayed as a faithful. He really did not want to lie. It is a pity that he was put in that position.

No, James A did not want to become a Traitor but he knew that would be a possibility, he knew exactly what arena he was entering. Someone so fragile should have been strongly advised not to contemplate joining such a stressful programme. Presumably they have health checks first?

When he left he could in fact have taken full responsibility for the murder in plain sight in the library. Instead he left with a finger pointing at Maya.

Such a Traitor thing to do. 😃

Parsley3

Poor Blunty. To give him his due though, he stayed consistently wrong to the bitter end.

Bless his cotton socks! I thought he was going to cry! 💔💔

Yes, he looked truly distraught.

Maremia

Such a Traitor thing to do. 😃

Yes, the final thrust of the dagger, getting his own back on Maya for recruiting him.

Aveline
I agree with you as the ending was a bit meh really.

I work for a charity and would have loved the money to have gone to a children's cancer charity.

Was a young man on the news this morning talking about his time as a traitor on the show a while back, he was saying he fully understood how upset James A was and how he had also struggled. I don’t think is unreasonable for a person to find such an intensive and immersive game stressful and for emotions to become heightened, indeed I think the producers go to great pains to make sure the tension is ratcheted up.
Hence James B struggling at the end and others having a bit of a wobble from time to time.
And I don’t think someone like James A should be barred from taking part due to his MH issues, he is probably pretty robust and able to cope with most ordinary everyday problems and thought that the show would not get to him quite so much. And well done him for getting so far and realising his own limitations.
I don’t think the game was compromised in any way, in fact it made the headlines due to his creating an unexpected twist.

They don't tell viewers what the charities are beforehand but it's not based on viewer voting so I don't know why. There has been controversy around the choice of winning charities, as it's a coincidence that they are both refugee based.

AI says:
The contestants competed for a wide variety of organizations. Winners Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft played for the Refugee Council and Choose Love, while other participants supported causes such as The Louis Dundas Centre (Amol Rajan), Bamboozle Theatre Company (Bella Ramsey), Friends of the Earth (James Acaster), Blue Marine Foundation (James Blunt), The King's Trust (Jerry Hall), UNICEF (Joanne McNally), and Tamworth Wellbeing and Cancer Support Centre (Joe Lycett).
Additional participating celebrities and their charities included Julie Hesmondhalgh (Reubens' Retreat), King Kenny (Rethink Mental Illness), Leigh-Anne Pinnock (British Red Cross), Maya Jama (Action for Children), Michael Sheen (Tŷ Hafan), Miranda Hart (Astriid), Myha'la (The Food Foundation), Professor Hannah Fry (Alzheimer's Society), Richard E. Grant (Longfield Community Hospice), Rob Beckett (Matt Palmer Trust), Ross Kemp (Haemophilia Society), and Sharon Rooney (Robin House Children's Hospice).