James Acaster's Traitor reveal keeps catching celebrities off guard

BBC Sounds gathers the Uncloaked envelope openings into a compilation, while viewers keep an eye on Ed Gamble's proud expression.

Channel: BBC Sounds Story of October 29, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 135,449 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (9,453).

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BBC Sounds has assembled a succession of envelopes containing the same unwelcome discovery: James Acaster was a Traitor, and the eliminated celebrities sitting with Ed Gamble mostly missed it.

The Short comes from The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked, the companion show where departing contestants learn who was deceiving them. One guest supplies his own suspenseful humming before reading Acaster's name and dissolving into laughter. "I had no idea what was going on, did I?" he says.

Others revisit suspicions that never quite became certainty. A contestant in glasses remembers a gut feeling; another says she briefly suspected him. Between them are the straightforward double takes, including one guest's wonderfully plain response: "OK, that is a shock."

The compilation passed roughly 108,000 views in 15 hours, putting it far ahead of BBC Sounds' usual start for a Short. A separate Uncloaked clip about Miranda's time in the castle is also drawing an unusually large audience.

In the comments, viewers are discussing how little attention Acaster attracted inside the game, rather than simply whether people trusted him. Others are watching the host as closely as the reveal cards: Gamble's apparent pride in Acaster has become a recurring topic of its own.

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The numbers

The Acaster compilation is drawing views much faster than a typical BBC Sounds Short. The Miranda castle clip is also ahead of the channel's usual opening pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

9,453

this video

135,449

subscribers

348,000

▲ 14,000 in the last 7 days

total views

198,697,005

views per day

699,729

typical day: 823,977

the video

views

107,966

likes

2,376

comments

22

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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360,000

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348,000

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347,000

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340,000

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335,000

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328,000

As of October 29, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.