BBC hopes to cash in on The Traitors success with rival spin-off quiz show

17 February 2024 , 23:13

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Claudia Winkleman in TV show The Traitors (Image: BBC/Studio Lambert/Mark Mainz)

The BBC is hoping to cash in on the success of The Traitors with a spin-off quiz. In The Chosen Ten , 15 candidates must nominate 10 players a day to take on a Mastermind-style quiz to grow the team’s pot of cash.

To be picked, contenders will have to say why they are the best suited to take part. But among the players are ‘Bluffers’, who have blagged their way on to the team and are not as clever as they claim to be. And once in the hot seat, they will try to get money siphoned off the team’s prize fund into their own pots.

The BBC One show The Traitors has been an instant hit with viewers (BBC/Studio Lamberty/Paul Chappells)

A source said: “As they get to know each other, the contestants are tasked with not only trying to prove their worth, but also to build trust and make friends with the brainiest between them so they get the best possible outcome.

“That goes for the Bluffers too, who have their own agenda and are desperate to answer questions so they can build their own cash funds rather than help the rest of the group.” A pilot episode was recorded in Belfast in December. The show is now expected to be produced for BBC1 later this year.

It comes after The Traitors star Mollie Pearce says host Claudia Winkleman barged into her room to comfort her after Harry Clark revealed he’d tricked her for the whole series. Almost seven million people saw the runner-up storm out of the round table room swearing when army engineer Harry confessed he was a traitor to win the £95,000 prize.

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Afterwards the model, 22, was swept into a meeting with a psychologist – but said Claudia was so determined to check she was OK that in spite of a long filming day, she insisted on waiting until she could see her.

Mollie smiled: “I actually love Claudia so much. I could hear her outside the door. She was like, ‘Let me in! I’m seeing her now...’
“She came in and gave me a hug, and she’s like, ‘You smashed it ’ . . . I love her. I just felt instantly better.

“She does care about us, she always made sure we were OK. She just makes me laugh, she’s so funny. She reminded me it was
a game, and mine and Harry’s friendship was real.”

Karin Wright