Brains behind the hit BBC show eye up opportunities as they trademark a range of goods
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The Traitors has become a cultural phenomena and we could be seeing much more of it(Image: BBC)
Telly fans could get the chance to sniff out a Traitor with plans to launch an aftershave and perfume based on the show in the works. The Dutch firm behind the hit BBC One show has been granted a trademark to sell a range of goods using the name and the programme’s logo.
They’re hoping Eau de Traitor could bring them the sweet smell of success as they cash in on the much-loved game of skulduggery. As well as dabbing on the scent of treachery, the knives could be out as bosses want to flog kitchen utensils and cutlery too.
It comes as The Traitors launched it’s first UK celebrity series this week. On the back for three civilian series, Claudia WInkleman returns to hosting and is joined by famous faces including singer Charlotte Church, comedian Lucy Beaumont and EastEnders actress Tameka Empson. They have been separated into Faithfuls and Traitors in the murder mystery game for charity.
Papers lodged with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office by Amsterdam-based IDTV Film & Video Productions show the firm wants to sell a range of goods like to the hit series.
They state: “Cosmetics and toiletry preparations; beauty care cosmetics; body cleaning and beauty care preparations; cleaning sprays; cleaning fluids; washing liquids; soaps and gels; scented soaps; fragrances; perfumes; aftershave; cologne.”
Documents also cover food and drinks, clothes, games, and even Christmas tree lights. The trademark has been passed and will stay in place for 10 years.
The Traitors format has been a huge hit around the world, including the UK. Here, we’ve had three civilian series and the first celebrity version is on screens now. It kicked off with a huge audience of 6.1million on Wednesday, with singer Paloma Faith the first to leave the Scottish castle.
Alan Carr committed the murder in plain sight by brushing some hair from his pal’s cheek during a chat in the kitchen. He went for Paloma, 44, in the poison pollen plot after she had told him: “I definitely trust you.” Paloma was said to be furious over the betrayal. After the killing, Alan, 49, said: “I feel awful. I didn’t know what else to do. I’ve gone and murdered one of my best friends.”
It started with 19 celebs, including diver Tom Daley, presenter Kate Garraway, chat show host Jonathan Ross, actress Celia Imrie, YouTuber Niko Omilana and sports pundit Clare Balding, battling it out for a £100,000 prize for charity.
The murder mystery series sees players play detective as a Faithful or hide in plain sight as a Traitor who secretly kill their unsuspecting rivals, with people voted off at the roundtable.
Nearly 10 million people watched the final of this year’s civilian series, setting a new record for the biggest audience in the programme’s history. The tense game show saw Faithfuls Jake Brown and Leanne Quigley outwit their fellow contestants to share a prize of £94,600. It’s filmed at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands. The next episode is Wednesday.
One eighties heartthrob, know for his role in The Lost Boys, was spotted with his teenage son in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, this week
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One beloved eighties heartthrob looked totally different as he stepped out with his lookalike son during a sunny day out in Santa Monica, Los Angeles this week. The 59-year-old actor and his son attended church after enjoying a morning swim and a trip to the beach.
The actor, known for his role as Michael Emerson in The Lost Boys, wore a black polo shirt, black trousers and sunglasses while his teenage son matched in a similar polo shirt and jeans. The star was none other than Jason Patric, real name John Anthony Miller III.
Jason raised son Gus, who was conceived via in vitro fertilisation, as a solo parent. He took legal action in 2012 to become his father.
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He and ex Danielle Schreiber separated in May 2012 and Danielle’s attorneys argued that, under California law, Jason was a sperm donor and that as the exes had never married and the child was conceived by artificial means, that he had no custody rights to his son.
Two years later, after an appeal, he was given the right to claim parentage of Gus, who was four at the time. Jason shared Gus with Danielle.
After being granted the right, he told Good Morning America the victory was “surreal” and claimed he had “faith in the process” He added: “I have been a dad and I’m going to continue to be a dad. You can’t ever abandon a child.”
Jason had iconic roles Rush, Sleepers, Narc and Geronimo: An American Legend. The star previously revealed the reason he changed his surname to ‘Patric’ from ‘Miller’.
He’s the son of Academy Award–nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Jason Miller and actress Linda Miller. His father left the family when he was still young.
Speaking to The Times Tribune about being a nepo-baby, he said: “The paternal or familial nepotism is not my bag.
“I can understand why people would be interested and that’s why I’ve talked about my past and my father, and I’ve never done that in 25 years.”
Jason, who played Michael in the movie, controversially started dating actress Julia Roberts just days after she cancelled her wedding to his co-star Keifer Sutherland in 1991, running off to Ireland with her on the proposed day of the wedding.
Jason later found himself embroiled in a custody battle with his on/off partner Danielle Schreiber.
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After Robbie Williams announced a run of shows that will coincide with the release of his latest studio album, he made his first BBC Radio 1 live lounge visit for 15 years
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Robbie Williams decided to push back the release of his album five months because he was desperate to create music history – and cursed Taylor Swift for making him wait!
If Britpop tops the UK albums chart it will mark Robbie’s 16th number one, putting him ahead of The Beatles’ long-standing achievement. The pop star says he is so obsessed with landing the title that he held new record back until February after hearing he would have to go head-to-head with Taylor in the charts.
He happily admits he was running scared as he made his first BBC Radio 1 live lounge visit for 15 years. He joined Rickie, Melvin and Charlie as he belted out some of his classic hits but it’s the future he’s thinking of – and he says he is desperate to hit top spot early in 2026.
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“The album should have been coming out this week, but for Taylor Swift. I mean, I’m still a big deal – but I’m not competing with that! So… I’ve gone and shifted it, haven’t I?” he said, as Taylor released The Life of a Showgirl, which is almost certain to the the 35-year-old secure her 14th number one album in the UK.
He was then reminded that if he does manage to chart in first place, that he will will overhaul the legendary Beatles as the artist with the most number one albums in the UK. “When those words leave your mouth, it’s life leaving this reality and going into a separate one that I don’t understand… but I’ll take!” Robbie went on.
“I’m really competitive, that’s why I moved the album. I’m sure I’m not supposed to say it, but it would genuinely be out now. I desperately want that thing! I want that, please!”
The former Take That star has just announced his Long 90’s Tour kicks off in Glasgow at Barrowlands Ballroom on February 4 2026, with Robbie playing Liverpool Olympia on the day of the album’s release, February 6.
The 51-year-old will also play 02 Academy Brixton in London on February 8 and Wolverhampton’s Civic Hall on February 9. The tour announcement coincides with the release of his latest single, Pretty Face, which follows previously released songs from the album – Rocket, Spies and Human.
The Britpop cover shows Robbie in his red tracksuit outfit that he wore to attend Glastonbury Festival in 1995, at the height of the Britpop era. His other chart-topping albums include Life Thru A Lens (1997), I’ve Been Expecting You (1998), Escapology (2002), Intensive Care (2005) and Rudebox (2006).
He has also had seven number one singles in the UK with songs including Millennium, Rock DJ and Candy. Speaking about the album, he said: “I set out to create the album that I wanted to write and release after I left Take That in 1995.
“It was the peak of Britpop and a golden age for British music. I’ve worked with some of my heroes on this album; it’s raw, there are more guitars and it’s an album that’s even more upbeat and anthemic than usual.
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“There’s some ‘Brit’ in there and there’s certainly some ‘pop’ too – I’m immensely proud of this as a body of work and I’m excited for fans to hear this album.”
The Brooklyn Nets and the Phoenix Suns met in a sold-out preseason game in Macau on Friday as fans cheered the NBA’s return to China after a six-year absence prompted by a pro-democracy tweet.
The first of two matches in Macau capped the NBA’s bid to mend fences with China, a lucrative market where an estimated 125 million people play basketball.
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“The atmosphere is amazing. I’ve been a Suns fan for a long time,” said David Jin, 26, who took a day trip from the nearby Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen.
“The NBA should come to mainland China more often. If it’s on my doorstep, I’ll show up to give my support,” Jin said, adding he spent about 5,000 yuan ($700) for tickets and travel.
Fans in the packed Venetian Arena gave four-time NBA All-Star Devin Booker a roaring reception and also particularly looked forward to seeing China’s 22-year-old debutant Nets forward Zeng Fanbo.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on Thursday that “there’s tremendous interest in the NBA throughout China.”
Building on the charm offensive, Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez said the China trip was in part an opportunity visit and to learn about a new culture.
“We are told that we get support from China, a lot of fans watching our games. But the reality is you don’t know until you come here,” he said.
Also speaking before the game, Suns head coach Jordan Ott said many of his players were travelling to China for the first time.
“Just that excitement when they walk out tonight – we know it’s a packed house – would be a really cool experience for all of us to remember,” Ott said.
Former footballer, Inter Miami CF co-owner and Salford City co-owner David Beckham was among those in attendance for the match in Macau [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
The Chinese Basketball Association announced a strategic partnership with the NBA on Friday, which includes providing opportunities for Chinese teams to take part in the NBA Summer League and WNBA preseason games in the United States, according to state media.
The NBA’s popularity in China took off during the 2000s with the Yao Ming craze, but the relationship soured markedly after a team official tweeted his support for the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The NBA was frozen out of China, and this was the league taking its tentative first steps back in.
Qin Junhong, a 19-year-old studying in Macau, said he remembered little about the dispute and was just “excited” to attend the game with his friends.
“There were so many people rushing for tickets,” Qin told the AFP news agency.
Friday’s game is part of a multimillion-dollar deal to stage NBA preseason matches at the Venetian Arena, part of the Las Vegas Sands conglomerate controlled by the Adelson family, who are the majority ownership group in the Dallas Mavericks.
Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal, is a special administrative region of China close to Hong Kong.
Experts say that playing the first NBA games since 2019 in Macau was something of a “soft landing”, rather than playing in mainland China.
Before the game, crowds took selfies at NBA-themed booths and shops in a convention hall, with large signs showing the logos of the league’s Chinese brand partners.
The wife of one of Wrexham’s Hollywood co-owners has addressed a claim about her husband dating reality star Kim Kardashian, revealing how the story came to light
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Kaitlin Olson has addressed claims her husband, Rob Mac (left), once dated Kim Kardashian(Image: PA Wire/PA Images)
The wife of one of Wrexham’s Hollywood co-owners has clarified that his claim to have previously dated Kim Kardashian is not true. Actress Kaitlin Olson is married to Rob Mac, who bought the Welsh football club back in 2021 alongside Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds.
The couple met on the set of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the long-running American sitcom which both have starring roles in. They got engaged in 2007 before marrying the following year and share two sons, Axel and Leo.
Olson’s acting career is currently going from strength to strength as the lead in Disney+ crime-drama High Potential and she is also known for her comedic roles in Always Sunny and Hacks. With her time at a premium, she told US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel this week how her husband has been tasked with taking care of their children at home.
However, it appears that Mac, who recently legally changed his surname from McElhenney, has been getting inventive by telling his sons some tall tales during their time together. One of the stories he invented is that he once had a romantic relationship with reality TV star Kardashian.
While Mac successfully managed to convince their children that his claim was true, Olson made clear that it was in fact a lie. She also revealed how a friend went to extreme lengths to help persuade them by doctoring a fake photograph of Mac and Kardashian together.
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Appearing on Kimmel’s show on Thursday, she said: “I’ve worked every day for a couple years now. Rob is really picking up the slack at home. He’s really enjoying and embracing parenting duty.
“He’s getting very creative with things over there. I came home the other day and we were having dinner. The boys looked at me, and they were like, ‘Mom, did dad date Kim Kardashian before you?’ And I was like, ‘Okay, here we go.’
“He doubled down on this Kim Kardashian thing. And they were like, ‘So, dad wasn’t engaged to Kim Kardashian, was he?’ I had to play along so I was like, ‘Yeah, they were dating. We both dated people before.'”
Discussing how the story spiralled from there, Olson added: “I put that to bed and I didn’t think about it for a while. Two weeks later, apparently my husband went into his office and told everyone this story.
“His chief operating officer [at his company More Better Industries], Fayer Joyce, thought it was the greatest thing ever, and spent all of her time at work for days creating this photo. She wore it in her purse for a week to age it.
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“Then on the back, she made up a pretend marketing manager [for Kardashian], who wrote a note to Rob. She took this very seriously. I was like, ‘Is there nothing else to do over there?'”
Earlier this year, Mac filed documents in Los Angeles to legally change his surname from McElhenney. It followed the 48-year-old growing frustrated over people being unable to pronounce his name.
He first mentioned his intention in an interview with US outlet Variety in May, telling them: “As our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob Mac.”
Mac and Reynolds bought Wrexham in February 2021 and have been credited with a sharp rise in visitors to the Welsh city. It follows them charting the club’s rise from the National League to the Championship via the Disney+ series Welcome to Wrexham.
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Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition politician who was barred from standing in last year’s presidential election, has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
In a post on the social media platform X on Friday, the Nobel Committee said it had decided to award the prize to Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.
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Announcing Machado’s win in Oslo, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Nobel Committee, said the award had gone “to a brave and committed champion of peace, to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness”.
He added that she meets “all the criteria” laid out by Alfred Nobel for the prize, which states that the prize shall be given to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.
Machado – who is known as the “Iron Lady” in Venezuela and is only the 20th woman out of 143 laureats awarded since the start of the prize in 1901 – said she was “in shock” after she learned she had been awarded the prize, according to a video sent by her press team to the AFP news agency.
“I’m in shock!” she is heard saying by telephone to Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who replaced her as the candidate in the last presidential election after she was barred from running.
“We’re shocked with joy,” said Gonzalez.
Here’s what we know about Maria Corina Machado:
Who is Maria Corina Machado?
Maria Corina Machado Parisca, 58, is the leader of the Venezuelan opposition party, Vente Venezuela. Machado campaigns for transparent democracy, advocates for liberal economic reforms, including the privatisation of state-owned enterprises such as PDVSA, Venezuela’s oil company. She also supports the creation of welfare programmes aimed at aiding the country’s poorest.
Born on October 7, 1967, in Caracas, the eldest of four daughters, she has a degree in industrial engineering and a Master’s degree in finance.
The mother of three entered politics in 2002 as cofounder of the volunteer civil association called Sumate, which seeks to unite people amid polarisation under Nicolas Maduro’s rule.
At Sumate, she also led a referendum in 2002 to recall Hugo Chavez, the country’s president at the time, from office, over what Sumate claimed were his authoritarian policies. For this, Machado was accused of treason and her family received death threats from Chavez supporters, forcing her to send her children to live abroad.
But Machado has remained resilient in her opposition to Maduro, who has been in power since 2013.
In 2023, she won the Venezuelan opposition’s presidential primary after taking a decisive lead, placing her in a prime position to challenge longtime socialist leader Maduro at elections in 2024.
But a year later, Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal upheld a ban that prevented Machado from holding office. Attorney General Tarek Saab had accused some members of Machado’s Vente Venezuela party of being among 11 people who he said attempted to rob a military weapons arsenal in 2023 before a planned assault on a pro-Maduro state governor. The court also upheld claims that Machado had supported US sanctions, had been involved in corruption, and had lost money for Venezuela’s foreign assets, including United States-based oil refiner Citgo and chemicals company Monomeros, which operates in Colombia.
Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia replaced her as presidential candidate for the opposition bloc. Machado, however, continued campaigning far and wide for her proxy.
Today, she is isolated in Venezuela as nearly all of her senior advisers have been detained or forced to leave the country following threats by Maduro and his supporters, who oppose anyone who challenges his rule. Urrutia is understood to be in exile in Spain but some rumours suggest he is currently touring other countries in Latin America.
Following the July 2024 election, after which Maduro declared victory despite the the result being disputed by the opposition, Machado announced that she would be going into hiding within Venezuela, since she feared for her life under Maduro.
Where is Machado now?
It is not known where she currently is. In August 2024, she briefly emerged from hiding to join her supporters who were protesting in the streets of Caracas against the contested national election results.
“Just as it took us a long time to achieve electoral victory, now comes a stage that we take day by day, but we have never been as strong as today, never,” Machado, who always arrives at protests dressed in white, told her supporters in Caracas.
In January this year, however, when she reappeared from exile to join a protest before Maduro’s presidential inauguration, she was briefly arrested before being released.
“They wanted us to fight each other, but Venezuela is united,” Machado shouted from atop a truck as she waved a Venezuelan flag in front of a few hundred protesters immediately before her arrest.
Maduro’s government, which has also accused Machado of leading a “conspiracy” against Maduro, quickly denounced the incident as an attempt to dent the administration’s reputation.
“The tactic of media distraction is not new, so no one should be surprised. Less so coming from fascists who are the architects of deception,” Information Minister Freddy Nanez wrote on the social media messaging platform, Telegram.
While Machado has returned to hiding, she remains in touch with her supporters through social media platforms.
In May this year, she claimed victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, even though Maduro’s ruling coalition was officially declared the winner. Machado wrote on X that the election was an “enormous farce that the regime is trying to stage to bury its defeat” in last year’s election.
Last year, the European Union awarded its top human rights prize to Machado along with Urrutia.
The European Parliament said the winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought were “representing the people of Venezuela fighting to restore freedom and democracy”.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia join hands during a protest against the result of the presidential election on July 30, 2024 in Caracas, Venezuela [Alfredo Lasry R/Getty Images]
What did the Nobel Peace Prize committee say about her?
In its announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it has always “honoured brave women and men who have stood up to repression, who have carried the hope of freedom in prison cells, on the streets and in public squares, and who have shown by their actions that peaceful resistance can change the world”.
“In the past year, Ms Machado has been forced to live in hiding despite serious threats against her life,” the committee noted.
“She has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions.”
The committee said it was “crucial” to recognise “courageous defenders of freedom” and democracy.
“Maria Corina Machado meets all the three criteria stated in Alfred Nobel’s will for the selection of a peace prize,” the committee stated.
“She has brought her country’s opposition together. She has never wavered in resisting the militarisation of Venezuelan society. She has been steadfast in her support for a peaceful transition to democracy,” it added.
The Nobel Committee also said it is hoping that Machado’s win “will support her cause and not limit it”.
“This is the discussion we have every year for all candidates, particularly when the person who receives the prize is, in fact, in hiding because of serious threats to her life,” Frydne said, when asked by reporters about the considerations the committee made for Machado’s safety and security in awarding her the prize.
Frydnes also added that through this award, the committee wishes to let the world know that in a world in which the number of democracies is decreasing, “democracy is a precondition for peace”.
The decision to award Venezuela’s Machado is a “prize for democracy”, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) director, Nina Graeger, said on X.
“At a moment when authoritarianism is on the rise across the world, this award highlights the courage of those who defend freedom with ballots, not bullets,” she noted.
She added: “This year, PRIO’s own shortlist for the Nobel Peace Prize emphasised the crucial role of election observers – the very work Machado has long contributed to – underscoring that credible elections remain the cornerstone of democracy and peace.”
Has Donald Trump reacted to the announcement?
There has been no reaction from US President Donald Trump, who made no secret of the fact he was hoping for the prize, as yet.
Since the start of his second term as president Trump has made it clear that he believes he should win the coveted prize as he claims to have ended “seven wars”.
On Wednesday, he looked set to claim credit for the possible end to an eighth war, after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first stage of a ceasefire deal that is rooted in Trump’s 20-point peace plan, which he had unveiled last week.
Even though Trump has yet to say anything on the matter, White House spokesperson Steven Cheung condemned the Nobel Committee for not selecting Trump for the prize.
“[Trump] has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will,” Cheung wrote on X.
“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace,” he said.
When asked by reporters about Trump’s very public desire to win the peace prize, the Nobel Committee’s chairman, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, told reporters that the committee bases its decision strictly according to “the work and the will of Alfred Nobel”.
“We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say, what for them leads to peace. This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity,” he said.
