Chaos, coffins and ‘Claudiapatra’ steal the show in Celebrity Traitors

Spoiler warning: This article reveals details from the first episode of The Celebrity Traitors, series two.

One person in particular may have dominated much of this opening episode, but Claudia Winkleman's gothic arrival still caused a stir.

Carried aloft by druids in a closed coffin, the show's host arrived in a church, to greet 21 anxious-looking celebrities.

"Claudiapatra!" gasped model and actress Jerry Hall - spotting similarities in both grandeur and hairstyles between Claudia and Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen.

Winkleman said at the show's press launch she loved her "iconic entrance", but admitted she'd initially wanted to hide in the castle's suit of armour.

"It's like a sort of GCSE history fantasy - it was either that or the grandfather clock," she said.

Claudia Winkleman emerged from her coffin to greet the celebrities in church

Jerry Hall referenced Cleopatra, seen here played by the late actress and former MP Glenda Jackson in a 1971 BBC Morecambe and Wise sketch

But the main talking point of this show was actor Richard E Grant, with his shocking admission.

In the launch episode, which was watched live by almost nine million people, Grant and presenter Maya Jama were selected as two of Winkleman's three traitors.

But immediately afterwards, Grant appeared to forget the entire point of the game by gleefully blurting out to those around him he was actually a traitor.

"It's an interesting angle - you need to be very clear that you're not," laughed singer James Blunt just afterwards, while comic Joe Lycett told Grant: "I think you've just done something that's never happened in the game."