The innovative reality TV show returns. Emma Willis hosts the live launch show as 8 players enter and are faced with an instant rating. Then a celebrity catfish joins the show.

The players get to know each other via an ice-breaker. The influencers chat privately and choose the first person to block. Richard is in his apartment awaiting the instructions of the viewers as to the persona he is to adopt.

James/Sammie starts to feel the pressure. The competition intensifies as first Richard/Judy enters The Circle and then, for the second time in three days, the players are asked to rate each other.

Emma and a panel of celebrity guests dissect the events of the past 48 hours. The first blocked players talk about their time on the show and viewers get another chance to control The Circle via an app vote.

The players react to the second blocking and play a picture game. Woody tries to make friends. Tim's suspicions of Jay build. Richard/Judy gets a new mission and a new player enters The Circle.

New player Ella chooses who she will go on a date with. Tim asks Woody for his help. The players rate each other again, who will they select to be the influencers?

The next blocked player is announced and they then get to grant immunity to a player of their choice. One of the group celebrates a birthday and signing their card proves a problem for the catfish. Two new players enter the building.

New players Beth and Jack join The Circle and Jack immediately starts flirting with the girls. An anonymous Q&A game throws a few cats among a few pigeons ahead of the next rating.

Tactical voting sends a shock wave through The Circle. The two influencers decide who should be blocked. A portrait painting challenge sends James/Sammie savage. There are plenty of shocks when the blocked player visits another player.

Emma Willis hosts as The Circle welcomes a new player, a player is blocked and a huge twist is revealed. Emma is joined in the studio by all of the blocked players from this year's series.

Paddy celebrates his first night in style and shares an emotional moment with Georgina. After Friday's shock twist, a paranoid Woody and Ella play detective. The ratings are revealed.

Beth and Jack's new persona, 62-year-old Joyce, is given a warm welcome to The Circle. A quiz raises suspicions. Joyce chooses Tim to go on a date at the hangout.

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New player Josh (who's really Busayo) immediately goes on a group date with Gorgina, Brooke and Sammie. A political article causes a few rifts and Ella fishes for clues about Joyce, which causes a fight between Beth and Jack.

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The final ratings take place before the finalists go and meet each other face-to-face in the Inner Circle. How will the players react to the four people they meet? Who will win the game? Strong language, adult humour and may contain flashing images.