The first episode of the new series will air at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer on January 1, with the second airing on January 2.

The Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr has wished the traitors “good luck” ahead of the new series of the show’s standard edition.

The 49-year-old appeared in a trailer for the BBC reality gameshow The Traitors, which was broadcast before Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing semi-final, and showed him writing a letter to them.

He said: “Dear new traitors, look after the place won’t you, because you’ll never guess what Claudia’s (Winkleman, the show’s presenter) got planned this time, it’s big.

“Good luck, you’re definitely going to need it.”

The first episode of the new series will air at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer on January 1, with the second airing on January 2

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