STARS taking part in the first challenge on The Celebrity Traitors were faced with a grave decision — to run or dig for their lives.
After being taken to a churchyard, they had to find buried shields which would give them immunity from being murdered.
An exhausted looking Jonathan Ross rests on his grave[/caption]
The shields were under huge mounds of dirt in plots with gravestones carrying their names in the grounds of Scotland’s Ardross Castle.
While some of the 19 celebs used spades, others just got on their hands and knees and frantically started shovelling with their bare hands.
The show’s presenter, Claudia Winkleman, earlier admitted she expected a lot of the stars to refuse to do the task.
At the end she joked: “All right, I know you’re thinking it, so I’m going to say it — they’ve just dug their own graves.”
The next time she saw the stars was to blindfold them and secretly select three to become Traitors.
She picked chat show host Jonathan Ross, TV presenter Alan Carr and singer Cat Burns by tapping them on the shoulder.
The trio later convened in the castle turret to hatch plans for their first murder victim among the 16 Faithfuls.
Alan said: “My thing was to go under the radar and I think I’ve pole vaulted over it.
“I’m so excited to be working with Cat and Jonathan but I’ve got a nervous disposition and this whole game plays on your nerves.”
But Jonathan reassured him: “Everyone’s looking at everyone and you’ve just got to stay strong because they don’t know we are.
“I think that’s just natural anxiety and a bit of paranoia.”
After a Trojan horse game and earning their first cash for the prize pot, the Traitors were charged with carrying out their first murder, which, as Claudia explained, “will be in plain sight”.
Alan was then instructed to touch a flower inside a glass case then touch the face of the first victim.
And last night viewers were left with the cliffhanger question: Who would they choose and how would Alan pull it off without arousing suspicion?
The action continues today on BBC One at 9pm.
Charlotte Church scrambles around her resting spot[/caption]
Alan Carr hard at work looking for a shield[/caption]
Celebrity Traitors Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Cat Burns[/caption]
