Spoiler warning: This article reveals details from episode nine of The Celebrity Traitors, series two. From shock slip-ups to a murder by yawning - and a whole host of Jerry Hall one-liners along the way - the current series of Celebrity Traitors has gripped the nation. But ahead of Friday's finale, what do former contestants make of this season's crop of stars and who are they tipping to win?
"Maya has played a damn good game", 61-year-old Judy Wilson says. Judy, from Doncaster, took home the unwanted title of the first player to be banished from the castle in series four. She told the BBC while it was a shame people didn't get to see more of her personality, she knew her daughter and fellow player, Roxy, would be "fighting for both of us".
"Roxy had warned me a few people were coming for me, and then my back got up... but I just tried to play the game. "The thing is, they've got nothing to go off, so obviously people are all going to jump on the same bandwagon... I had to go down gracefully." Roxy was adopted by Judy aged five, and said it was important for her and her mum to show viewers "if you're adopted or from an adverse background, you can still achieve things and be as regular as everyone else".
Roxy, 33, had been rooting for comedian and faithful Joanne McNally in the latest celebrity series, before she was banished by her fellow faithful on Thursday. "She's wrong and strong, like me," Roxy jokes. "When you're in there, your version of the truth becomes the truth, and nobody can tell you otherwise.
You're in your own echo chamber." Roxy said the game was "super intense, more intense than I expected". After surviving for 11 episodes she was evenutally murdered by the traitors, though said she could see it coming. "After being there for some time, you just expect it more and more every night.
You're just kind of waiting." Roxy had her own memorable moment on the show, when she clashed with crime writer and former barrister, Harriet Tyce, whose sights were – correctly – set on traitor Rachel Duffy. Tyce voiced her theory at breakfast, but turned her frustrations to Roxy, who felt Tyce had interrupted Duffy when defending herself. It was then Tyce produced the now-iconic line: "The benefit is to set the cat amongst the pigeons, Roxy." "That moment itself I think has gone down in TV history, so I'm glad to be a part of it," Roxy laughs.
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