Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps full lineup revealed

Pilgrimage is back, and this time the celebrity cast are taking a journey of faith through the Alps. The BBC Two series gathers a group of celebrities from different faith backgrounds and sends them on a well-trodden pilgrimage route , where they'll get to explore their own views on religion as well as their cast mates'. Here's who is taking part this time and where they will be heading.

When is Pilgrimage: The Road Through The Alps on TV? Pilgrimage returns to BBC Two this Easter for a seventh series of celebrities exploring their faith and spirituality while taking in some inspiring landscapes. The series begins on Sunday, 20 April at 9pm and will continue across three consecutive nights at the same time on BBC Two. Who are the pilgrims this time? There are seven celebrity pilgrims taking on the 2025 series, representing various different faiths.



Harry Clark Roman Catholic, The Traitors winner Clark was brought up Roman Catholic, but said that his faith changed when he started thanking God for his life rather than asking for things in prayer: "Since that change happened, my life has been like the most insane roller coaster ride of craziness ever," he said. "It allowed me to have opportunities. And then suddenly, Traitors and Pilgrimage came around.

And it gave me the strength to just be a nice person, let me do this to the best of my ability, and then see what happens from there." The TV star had such a great time on Pilgrimage that he admitted he even preferred it to winning The Traitors : "On The Traitors, you've got to backstab and you've got the people who would happily kill you off, me being one of them, to get to where I wanted to get to on the show. Whereas in Pilgrimage, it was like, if you're up, I'm up.

So I tried to bring everyone up, as well as myself." He added: "I have to remind people who have watched Traitors that I don't actually murder people at night time. They can trust me, and believe me, I'm not an actual traitor in real life.

I'm a normal guy just trying to get through life." Clark lists his Pilgrimage highlights as "sleeping in a bed with Jeff Brazier. That was a crazy one.

Also, I hugged a monk. I couldn't believe that I'd met a monk in real life. I can't wait for my mum to see that.

..I got to see the Alps.

I walked up a mountain. I've seen Switzerland, Austria, I've gone to a nunnery, I got splashed by a nun. I didn't think nuns were like, chill, like that, and she was splashing me with water.

" Jay McGuiness Former Catholic, The Wanted singer The Wanted star describes himself as a "cultural Catholic" who is now agnostic, explaining: "I think as far as faith goes, I’ve well and truly put the Catholic Church (as it stands) behind me. I’m a card-carrying agnostic and am open to whatever life throws at me." Although McGuiness is upfront that he didn't have any religious revelations on Pilgrimage, he did strike up a new friendship with Helen Lederer through talking about the loss of his bandmate, Tom Parker .

He said: "I did get emotional talking with Helen about the passing of Tom. I spent my childhood being taught that if I followed the rules there would be an afterlife, but I don’t necessarily believe in that now I’m an adult, and that changes things. It was amazing to be told by a hilarious kind of Jewish woman 'Look, I don’t really follow a lot of my stuff either, but I do believe in God.

' She’s whip-smart, she’s been around the block, and she still has faith, and that is important to me for some reason." McGuiness added that they had stayed pals, saying: "Helen and me shared a taxi from the airport and she pulled a bottle of wine out of her bag which we shared, with no glasses and we just died laughing together all the way home." Jeff Brazier Spiritual, TV presenter Brazier is used to life on the road - he hadn't long been back from Celebrity Race Across The World before taking on Pilgrimage.

The TV presenter, who is dad to two sons from his previous relationship with the late Jade Goody, said he had plenty of opportunities to meditate on the journey. He said of his spiritualism: "I am very open about it. There’s nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.

There’s historically been a stigma about being spiritual but I am proud to be on that path because it makes me a better person and helps create a balance in my life." Talking about how Pilgrimage had affected him, he said: "I since went to an all men’s retreat, which I know is something I benefit greatly from. I have also gone to a trauma retreat, which was life changing in terms of what I learned and experienced.

It’s made me more determined to do the work – healing, recovery and the improvement." Stef Reid Christian, Paralympic athlete Retired Paralympic athlete Reid is secure in her faith, but was open about the life questions that lead her to do Pilgrimage. She said: "Since retiring from elite sport in June 2022, the phrase 'early midlife crisis' has popped into my head more than once! I knew the smart thing would be to take some time and space to consider the difficult questions that were popping up: who am I away from athletics? What is my purpose? Was competing around the world in stadiums of 80,000 my peak? How do I top that, or is it all downhill from here? And, on a very practical note, how will I make money?" Reid wears a prosthetic leg and said: "My biggest concern was the amount of walking and what the best choice of leg would be.

I’m not used to being on my stump for that long. As a leg amputee, one of the biggest issues is skin breakdown. Pressure sores and infection are always a concern.

" She said that she had loved the experience and added of being Christian: "I prefer to express my faith with my attitude and actions. It is easy to say you believe in something. Much harder to live it.

If I’m not living in a way that invites interest and questions, then I would question what the point of my faith is." Nelufar Hedayat Muslim, Journalist Hedayat said that she formed some close friendships on Pilgrimage - especially with Reid and Brazier, who helped her with her "religious anxiety". She admitted: "I battle with my faith and have done so for a while.

I can’t come to terms with how Islam has been used against Afghan women like me and my kin, and to tell the truth, I have been angry with God with the way things are in the world. "As a journalist with my rational mind, I know the reality and the whys and hows of it all, but as a Muslim woman who has fled the war in Afghanistan, I feel faith and belief had a lot to play in my estrangement from my birthland." Hedayat found Pilgrimage helped her to reconnect with her faith, and also made another unexpected connection.

She said: "When we went to the refugee Centre in Austria, I can't tell you how reminiscent it was of my own feelings when I was a refugee...

The anger and frustration that I have felt knowing that I have been made homeless because of that intersection of faith and politics has always been a bolus in my throat. The Pilgrimage created enough space that I could detach from those feelings and start a new relationship with Islam." Helen Lederer Mixed heritage, actor and comedian Lederer describes herself as a "mixed heritage believer" and revealed that the main thing she learned on Pilgrimage was about accepting other people.

"Being away with a group of strangers for that period of time, I learnt that I need to be more tolerant of people who have a different vibration to me and I learned that I loved being made to laugh, as well as making people laugh," she said. "I made a good friend in Jay McGuiness, I laughed more than I had done for a long time and I felt the joy of camaraderie and shared goals." Lederer, who says she was helped in carrying her backpack by McGuiness and Clark, added: "When we came to the end, I felt sad, reflective and changed.

I found that to have become close to people is triggering, especially when you have to say goodbye." Daliso Chaponda Baha'i, Comedian Chaponda might have grown up in a Christian family, but he had a new religious perspective to offer his fellow pilgrims after his conversion to the Baha'i faith. He said: "I’m mostly Baha’i but I don’t know if I can call myself a Baha’i as I don’t practice, go to community events etc.

I simply read the texts all the time, pray, and independently explore (which doesn’t feel like being a true part of a faith). This may be changing though because post Pilgrimage, I’m engaging a bit more with the community." Chaponda added that he had been surprised how strongly he felt about defending his faith to the other pilgrims.

He said: "The beauty of the Baha'i faith is to me, partly, in its acceptance of the complexity of human experience and understanding that not all paths to the truth are the same and different paths can be equally valid. I worry that I was not the perfect person to represent this ethos as it’s one I’m grappling with myself, but if in my clumsy verbal blundering around, I conveyed a measure of that and made people curious enough to look further, I’d be very pleased." Where is Pilgrimage for 2025? Pilgrimage has seen its famous cast trek in locations from North Wales to Santiago and Istanbul over its six previous series.

The series seven pilgrims have a stunning - if hilly - route ahead of them as they set out across the Alps. The seven pilgrims will begin their journey on the Austrian Camino in the picturesque village of Inzing, 17km outside the Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck. Over 12 days, they will face strenuous climbs high into the Alps, even reaching the snow line as they journey the medieval Catholic route.

Staying in hostels and guest houses along the way, they'll travel on foot and by bus across the Arlberg pass, the highest point on the Camino, and on to their final destination in the foothills of the Swiss Alps, Einsiedeln Abbey. The abbey attracts almost a million pilgrims and visitors every year and is home to Benedictine monks who will welcome them at the end of their journey. Pilgrimage begins on BBC Two at 9pm on 20 April.

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