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A total of 9.3 million viewers watched comedian Joe Lycett get banished from the castle in the latest episode of The Celebrity Traitors.
Figures provided by the BBC show that the sixth episode of the reality game show reached a peak of 9.6 million viewers and a 57 per cent audience share.
The second series of the hit programme launched earlier this month, delivering the most-watched debut of any UK season to date with an average audience of 8.9 million.
Friday’s broadcast began with the news that no contestant was murdered, after traitors Maya Jama and James Acaster chose to recruit content creator King Kenny.
The YouTube star took the spot vacated by Hannah Fry, who was banished at Thursday’s round table and exposed as a traitor.
Lycett’s eager calls to be recruited ultimately sealed his fate, as his enthusiasm raised suspicion among his fellow faithfuls and led to his banishment.
Elsewhere in the episode, the celebrities underwent a gruelling mission in the pouring rain, during which they answered questions about each other to match statue heads with their bodies and mount them on plinths.
During the game, it was revealed the group voted actor Michael Sheen as head of the round table, while Romesh Ranganathan has the best poker face and Jerry Hall has her head in the clouds.
After the dramatic round table, Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock lightened the mood as she taught comedian Miranda Hart the dance moves to the band’s hit Touch.
While Hart was busy dubbing herself “Big Mix”, the traitors were attempting to murder either Hall or Ross Kemp in plain sight by “boring them to death”.
The treacherous trio sprayed a perfume from a peacock bottle, and then tried to encourage a faithful to yawn to inhale the perfume and kill them.
The episode ended with the clock ticking and the traitors under pressure as it seemed they were running out of time.
Viewers must wait until next week to find out whether they were successful in their latest murder.
The Celebrity Traitors continues on BBC One at 8pm next Thursday.
