‘I cast Celebrity The Traitors – I want the same star as you for series 2’ 

The Celebrity Traitors cast is genuinely unbelievable – but one star’s absence from the line-up left fans brokenhearted.

Sir Stephen Fry, Charlotte Church, Alan Carr, Paloma Faith, and Jonathan Ross are just some of the big names competing in television’s most deceptive game, set at Ardross Castle, Inverness, in what is easily the most anticipated TV moment of 2025.

The cast was leaked just weeks before the BBC confirmed the 18 stars taking part in the first-ever Celebrity Traitors. But even with such a blockbuster line-up, one man’s absence began trending on X.

That man was Bob Mortimer.

Bob recently won over a new generation of fans – while reaffirming his place as the nation’s most beloved oddball – in Amazon Prime’s Last One Laughing, the contest where comedians must make each othe