Hannah Fry is too clever for her own good ...Middle East

This article contains spoilers for The Celebrity Traitors

Spare a thought for Hannah Fry. Over the past two episodes of The Celebrity Traitors she has quite unwittingly become the show’s main character – being strapped into the emotional rollercoaster that exemplifies the show at its best. One minute she’s being buried alive with a claustrophobic Jerry Hall, next she’s grappling with being murdered quicker than you can say “call my agent” – and then she’s being recruited to team Traitor, having to use that enormous brain of hers to work out how she’s going to arrange her face at breakfast.

Aside from the bad luck – or good luck, depending on how you look at it – of being paired with the only player in the second challenge to exercise the Haggis Clause, it’s that enormous brain that has got Hannah into this mess. As a maths professor, the sort of pop-intellectual and bona fide expert who would put paid to the complaints of Michael Gove, in the castle she has inspired awe and respect from virtually everyone (it helps that she’s also really nice). Last night, she told Joe Lycett before everyone went to bed, when she was convinced she was going to be murdered, that she had a spreadsheet of all the possible combinations of Traitors.

But what this shows is that in this game, cleverness only gets you so far. And when it’s not downright useless, it can actually be dangerous.

So far, on The Celebrity Traitors the Faithfuls have had an easy ride – in fact, the easiest in Traitors history, given the small fact that one of the Traitors simply told everyone he was a Traitor within about five minutes of finding out. You didn’t need to have a PhD to conclude that Richard was probably the one to vote for at the first Round Table. Those who didn’t were at risk of massively overthinking it – poor Myha’la realised she was making a mistake in doing just that, suspiciously switched her vote to Richard and ended up banished. Now he’s gone, the Faithfuls are going to have to do some actual thinking.

When it looked like either Hannah or Jerry would be murdered, Hannah was prime for the chop because, in last Friday’s Round Table, she was joining things up a little too much. Jerry, meanwhile, was wandering around swooshing her hair, suggesting a series of increasingly incorrect theories, whispering conspiratorially in corridors. Her total cluenessness among the Faithfuls would have been perfect for the Traitors to keep around, while Hannah was presenting a real danger.

This is, of course, the same reason that the two remaining Traitors, Maya and James, chose to recruit Hannah: her strategising and oversight of the game will be invaluable to them. Understandably, in last night’s episode it was difficult for Hannah to know how to play it the next day: everyone thought that either she or Jerry would be murdered, and she has to do a lot of deflecting to take suspicion away from her. Miranda is one of the only players who noticed Hannah’s visible nervousness and change in demeanour at breakfast the next day. Yet, at last night’s Round Table, Hannah masterfully steered the consensus further towards Myha’la as they were forced to reveal what happened in the challenge with the shield.

So far, so good. But the problem is that, Faithful or Traitor, such obvious and widely perceived cleverness is always going to be a disadvantage. My colleague Emily Baker has written in previous series of The Traitors about how the major flaw in the game is that generally only bad Faithfuls can win – draw too much attention by rooting out the Traitors and you’re probably going to get murdered the next day (just look at Amol, who shouted a little too loudly about his superior journalistic abilities and ended up in a coffin in episode one).

Conversely, Traitors love to keep in Faithfuls who are getting it completely wrong. In the last celebrity series, clueless (but brilliant value) Faithfuls like Kate Garraway and Lucy Beaumont were invaluable for Alan Carr and Cat Burns’s chaotic antics. In the current series, players like confident but blindly incorrect Julie, up-for-a-laugh, sees-the-best-in-everyone Joanne, and insouciant Jerry are perfect to keep around the castle, while Bella, who is frequently described as a bit of a mastermind, is attracting too much attention; they might not be far from figuring it out.

Whether it’s banishment or murder, having your finger on the pulse of the game sets you up for trouble: seeming too clever isn’t great if you’re a Traitor, either. Last year, Stephen Fry came under a lot of heat purely because of his status as a certifiable genius (hilariously, he contributed essentially nothing to the Faithfuls’ theories, while certifiable musclehead Joe Marler was the closest to leading the Faithfuls to victory – he, too, was banished once he started seeming too smart). Maya is so far flying under the radar because she is maintaining a façade of doe-eyed palatability in the daytime, before putting on her cloak and going full throttle. You don’t want anyone to be thinking that you “would make such a good Traitor”.

This is Hannah’s problem. She’s played it well so far, and can hopefully brush off some of the attention because she was understandably stressed about getting murdered. But bounding in confident as Emeritus Professor of the Faithfuls has left her vulnerable. An above-average brain is great for The Traitors in theory – but in practise it’s a very different game.

‘The Celebrity Traitors’ continues tonight at 8pm on BBC One

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