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‘The Traitors’ Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Chloe Kim, Rashad Jennings, Whitney Leavitt and More Join Peacock Hit
Confirmed
In Short: Peacock's reality competition show The Traitors has unveiled its star-studded lineup for the upcoming fifth season, featuring celebrities like Kristin Chenoweth and Chloe Kim.
Based on the Dutch format De Verraders, The Traitors splits contestants into Faithful and Traitors, with the latter trying to remain undercover while eliminating the Faithful.
The Faithful must uncover the Traitors in a roundtable, voting them out until either the Traitors or the Faithful win the $250,000 prize.
The show, hosted by Alan Cumming, has secured three additional seasons, taking the series through Season 8.
The Traitors: New Blood, a civilian spinoff, debuted on NBC on September 17 and will run through November 19.
What's confirmed
- The Traitors is lining up its next group of faithfuls and traitors.
- The Season 5 cast was revealed on September 18.
What's still developing
- Stars include actors, reality stars and creators including Kristin Chenoweth, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives ’ Whitney Leavitt and RuPaul Drag Race star Bianca Del Rio.
- At the end, if there are Traitors left in the game, they will split the money between them.
- If there are no Traitors left, the money is divided among the Faithful.
- The Traitors is exec produced by Cumming, Stephen Lambert, Mike Cotton, Sam Rees-Jones, Rosie Franks, Tim Harcourt, Jack Burgess and Darrell Olsen.
- Peacock announced the all-star lineup for the upcoming fifth season of The Traitors on Friday, which will see 23 contestants, including Broadway legends, Bachelors, and a slew of reality icons, battle it out at the roundtable until one person is left standing.
- Past seasons have featured reality and pop culture icons divided into two groups as they lie, deceive, murder, banish, and compete in a castle in the Scottish Highlands to try and snuff out the nefarious Traitors from the Faithfuls, with those left standing taking home a $250,000 prize.
- News of the next celebrity cast comes days after Peacock renewed the show for three more seasons through Season 8, and on the heels of The Traitors’ Emmy sweep.
- The Season 5 cast of The Traitors has just been announced, and fans are in for a treat.