Richard E Grant will finally learn his fate in the latest episode of The Celebrity Traitors on Thursday.

The show ended on Friday with the actor coming under intense scrutiny at the roundtable after he slipped up and admitted he was a traitor.

However, viewers were left not knowing who had been banished from the castle.

Former Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh told Grant she would vote for him, saying: “I’ve come in here tonight with the intention of voting for you, Richard.

“You came into the bar and you said, I am a traitor.

“It was a bold move. It was chaotic and we love you for your chaos.

“I think we are at risk of being the most idiotic group of faithfuls if we go for someone else tonight based on nothing at all.”

Comedian Joanne McNally defended the actor, saying: “It was such an obvious joke.

“I think the people vying for Richard are using him as a fall guy and a decoy.”

The actor also faced scepticism from actress Miranda Hart and mathematician Hannah Fry, who both noted a change in his demeanour after host Claudia Winkleman selected the traitors.

After playing a challenge where most of the stars won a “shield”, giving them immunity from murder, it will be either Fry or former model Jerry Hall who will become the traitors’ next victim.

The Celebrity Traitors airs on Thursday at 8pm on BBC One.