Traitors 2026 - New Years Day

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Apologies, I can’t see another thread so just starting this one in anticipation.

Can’t wait to see what the red cloak is all about!

Absolutely. As soon as he was made a traitor he obviously assumed he would take the lead. I think Rachel would like to throw him under the bus at the first opportunity, but maybe will hold off unless and until he seems to become dangerous to her.

Rachel reminds me of Charlotte in the previous series.

They keep showing a frame of a family tree with all contestants on it. I’m wondering if all of them are related in some way to one of the other’s (like the mum and daughter). What a twist that would be?

The secret traitor can have enormous fun manipulating the shortlist so that, whoever the traitors murder, it will throw suspicion on one of them. It really does add some interesting twists.

I noticed that straight away. They have also painted the fly-on-the-wall cameras to blend in with the decor, which they hadn't done for the celebrity version.

Working on it!

Like a Agatha Christie novel

For me, a cross between Juliet Bravo, and Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect.

I thought it was a solid first episode. I like the secret traitor, it gives us an idea of what it’s like for them

Not read the whole thread but did anybody hear Roxie call Judy mum in the boat task

Well the actual crime novelist in the castle will suss that in no time then.😂

Just remembered something that bugged me!! When the "oh I thought putting the coffin in the grave saved people" woman got all offened a coffin was in her grave meaning she was up for murder, while ignoring the fact she, herself, chose other people to be in the same selection of people.

All very "why am i so special?" musing, that you just want someone to point out it's the same as reason everyone else.

Though, is she just self-centred or was it an attempt to emphasise she's just worried as everyone else she might be murdered? A "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." situation?

That coffin/grave task irritated me no end. They wasted far too much time in faffing about discussing where to put each coffin, instead of just dumping it in the nearest grave and then dashing off to get the next one. Choosing the closest graves would have been entirely random and nobody could have complained about that. It was the fairest, easiest and quickest way to do it. There was no benefit to be gained from wasting time talking about whose grave to choose, they don't know one another well enough yet, and all it would do was cause unnecessary discord.

And me, please.

Right, numbers crunched and here are our statistics:

79 guesses so far (as of this post)
56 posters

Confirmed Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen

Confirmed Faithful
Netty
James
Maz

Secret Traitor Suspects (# of votes)
Fiona (13)
Ross (12)
Amanda (11)
Judy (11)
Roxy (8)
Jade (6)
Harriet (6)
Jessie (3)
Sam (3)
Jack (2)
Netty (2) - Not the ST
Ben (1)
Faraaz (1)

Interestingly, only 4 players have not been named as ST suspects:

Adam
Ellie
Matthew
Reece

Odds are it’s one of them 😜

Just goes to show that we’d all be just as rubbish at playing the game as those on the show!

I’ll go for Adam as the ST simply because of his positioning in the cast announcement - he’s the only one out of alphabetical order.

Good work op 😀

Who the heck are Adam, Ellie, Matthew and Reece?

Traitors-adjacent news - Clare Balding’s dad has died.

Ian Balding was a renowned racehorse trainer, best known for training the legendary Mill Reef.

His son, Andrew, took over the family business in 2002.

The vicar or the judge 🤔

I don’t recognise half the names 😂 Not even going to try as they will be out soon enough or become memorable enough for me to know their names 🤣

I love this idea 😆

They keep going back to the family tree. I reckon we need a screenshot so we can peruse it in more detail.

If the ST is already a traitor it better not be Hugo!

That would be hilarious if they were all tenuously linked or everybody had a family member in there with them - but can you imagine the headache that would have given the producers to orchestrate?

I’ll try and get one after my lunch