Celebrity Traitors live: Kate Garraway is suspected as Paloma Faith meets her maker in shock episode 2 twist

Hello faithfuls! Adam White here to guide you through another evening of camp murder nonsense and inexplicably loud Paloma Faith outfits. As recapped above by my colleague Greg, we’re currently stranded in a cliffhanger ending that involved Alan Carr slathering his fingers in the flower dust that kills you, with tonight’s episode presumably beginning with Alan planting said dust over the doomed albeit recognisable face of one of his fellow celebrities.

Who will meet their dusty fate? Sound bath queen Charlotte Church? Vaguely patronising helper of the elderly Nick Mohammed? [Checks notes] YouTube prankster (?) Niko Omilana?

We’ll know all in about an hour...

So going into tonight, there already seem to be a few faithfuls who’ve been targeted for suspicion. One seems to be Good Morning Britain stalwart Kate Garraway, whose whole “look me in the eyes and tell me you’re not a Traitor” game seemed to backfire a little.

Also on watch is Clare Balding, with many seeming to believe her oopsie involving a big mechanical lever in a challenge involving a giant horse on wheels (Context? Where we’re going, we don’t need context!) was in fact a big traitorous ruse designed to screw everyone over.

Poor Clare, doomed by her very relatable inability to read clear instructions before smashing and breaking things.

With this in mind, though, Clare is likely the most safe from tonight’s ‘flower dust of evil’ murder – because why kill off the most useful of your fellow celebrities at this point?

So we kick off tonight with Alan walking around the house with a mug of tea... and a hand full of poisoned pollen!

“I’m really up against the clock,” he says. “How am I gonna touch someone’s face?”

Good god, that was a shock

“I’ve murdered one of my best friends,” Alan explains to the other traitors.

Did I curse Paloma with my “inexplicably loud outfit” remark? I’m slightly sad. Lovely Paloma Faith, dead at the hand of bespectacled murderer Alan Carr.

The next morning, the faithfuls (and secret traitors) are slowly gathering for breakfast. Alan has explained that he hopes to maintain his “dithery” persona to the rest of the cast, while everyone awaits to see who hasn’t survived the night.

Also, separately, can we have a quick conversation about this, please?

So Paloma is… still here. So is she dead? Or imminently dead? Everyone is confused. But this is a “slow-acting poison” apparently, whatever that means. Once Claudia arrives, she clears everything up. “By the end of today’s mission, [the murdered person] will be dead,” she tells them.

Meanwhile, when it comes to suspects, Jonathan has thrown a cat among the pigeons here, suggesting Niko has been behaving “differently” since Claudia selected her traitors.

Clare, meanwhile, has a “sneaking suspicion” about Kate Garraway, claiming to Cat (lol) that Kate had an “overreaction” after taking her blindfold off. And Tom echoed this, suggesting Kate is being “a bit louder” than he imagined at the breakfast table.

I feel like I had so little interactions yesterday for me to be ‘got’,” Paloma suggests during a post-breakfast debrief. However, “Niko hugged me!” she suddenly remembers.

Niko’s name is coming up a lot, isn’t it?

Later, Jonathan takes Kate aside and tells her that her name has been “coming up” too. What a dastardly, terribly dressed man!

Tom and Charlotte are also a bit suspicious of Niko now. Tom, this show’s compact little armchair detective, also has a theory: that the Traitors may have been surprised by the twist this morning, too.

Separately, Celia is suspicious of Charlotte because she gave up her shield yesterday. Oh Celia, don’t cast doubt on my sound bowl queen, yeesh.

Also can we have a (further) conversation about this please?

So the players have been called to the foreboding celebrity graveyard that opened the first episode. This week’s challenge involves the cast having to figure out which celebrity has been murdered using a series of clues. The murdered faithful and two other players — who have been chosen by the traitors, twist! — must lie in their coffins, too.

So far they have deduced that Nick and Niko are potential murdered-in-waiting...

So the cast have successfully deduced that Paloma may have been murdered. “I feel so bad seeing Paloma get in the coffin,” Alan says. “I popped you in that coffin.”

They’ve banked £2,000 extra, but everyone’s quite bummed out.