Celebrity Traitors star addresses absence from trailers: "I'm not in any of them!"
One star is noticeably missing from the trailers for Celebrity Traitors season two. After the wildly popular spin-off series first gripped the nation last year, 21 new famous faces will head to the castle in the Scottish Highlands to try and deduce who is a Faithful and who is a Traitor.
Among this year's star-studded cast are Richard E Grant, Michael Sheen, Bella Ramsey, James Blunt, and more, hoping to win a huge cash prize for their chosen charity.
Joining them is comedian Joanne McNally, who you may have forgotten is among this year's line-up due to her absence from this year's trailers.
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There is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in one trailer from a month ago where you can see Joanne, but otherwise, she has been hard to spot ahead of the show's launch on 1 October.
Taking to Instagram, Joanne joked she is "starting to think she wasn't actually in the show" after her fleeting appearance in the initial preview.
"I'm starting to think I wasn't actually in @ukthetraitors at all and it was all a fever dream," she wrote on her Instagram Story.
Then, in a video, she said: "Every single time there’s a trailer released for Celebrity Traitors, which starts on October 1st, I’m like, 'Oh it’s so exciting'. And I press play. It’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done in my career, it’s so exciting.
"And every time I’m not in any of them. I’m like, 'Okay, that’s cool. I’m sure it’s fine'. Probably. Maybe they’re like, 'She makes such an impact on the show that we don’t want to oversaturate her at this stage'. I’m sure it’s fine."
She continued: "I did do it, didn’t I? Imagine if I tried to text Maya Jama now and she was like, 'Who is this?' Like, 'Oh my god, I made the whole thing up in my head'."
In another Story, she said: "I mean I'm moments away from AI-ing myself into these trailers, at this point. Maybe I can AI myself into the face of a bird... I want to be involved!"
We don't yet know how prominent Joanne will be in the series, or whether she will be a Faithful or a Traitor.
Season one was won by comedian and TV host Alan Carr, who was frequently dubbed the worst Traitor the show had ever seen due to his far from inconspicuous nature in the role.
However, he managed to fool his fellow contestants and make it all the way to the final, beating Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga to the top prize.
Celebrity Traitors season two begins on BBC One and iPlayer on Thursday, 1 October, at 8pm.
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