SPOILER FREE PLEASE The Secret Traitor Big Reveal? Place Your Bets | Traitors 2026 | Thread 3

[CaveMum]

Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5469362-red-cloak-dagger-were-all-being-played-traitors-2026-thread-2?page=1

Here we go, ready for the big reveal (maybe?) next episode - Wednesday 7 January.

Current Status

Confirmed Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen

Murdered
Netty
Ben

Banished
Judy (Faithful)
Hugo (Traitor)

Confirmed Faithful (still in)
James
Maz
Reece

Secret Traitor Suspects Remaining (in order of when named and who said it first)

Ross - *@maggieFS
Fiona - *@Empress13
Jessie - *@DandelionPockets
Roxy - *@CheerfulBunny
Jade - *@sleepeazie (technically it was CheerfulBunny who said it first, but you’ve already got one on the list!)
Amanda - @TokyoSushi
Sam - @lightanddreamy
Harriet - @Newgirls
Faraaz - @Ohcrap082024
Jack - *@Beachtastic
Ellie - *@Piggywaspushed

Only 2 players have not been named as ST suspects at this point (please provide screenshots if I’ve missed these being named!):

Adam
Matthew

It’s going to be a long 4 days!

4 white traitors is unlikely, I agree. So my next guess is Roxy.

I disagree. Harriet’s faithful credentials are sky high now. In a way, although I think she’s the ST, I really hope she isn’t because she’s such a faithful asset.

I agree Roxy is a good shout. If she is the ST I think shes played a clumsy game.
She was very overfamiliar with her mother when Judy was in there, she overreacted to Judy's banishment and shes been very breezily confident in swinging theories and names around IMO

I would also request this to be a no spoilers thread please and @CaveMumto request an edit to the thread title for the avoidance of doubt and for posters who have not RTFT. It’s a long held convention when going at live TV pace, and it’s very easy for anyone who wants to discuss spoiler evidence to have another thread. On live TV pace, the only ‘source’ is what’s been shown. It’s fine to discuss e.g. Uncloaked and TRIE which are also only discussing what’s been on the show, and they’re not pulling in other data sources.

I hope that’s not too head girl/thread police, just clarifying long held conventions.

Well she could if the majority had gone with someone else.

Just to clarify: there are 3 episodes now up on iplayer so ok to discuss all 3?

Was away when the series started, just caught up and you’re three threads deep.

I think the secret traitor is being revealed too early. But I’ve no idea who it is. And it is far too long a wait.

@CaveMum, I know you're busy and distracted - if you have a second to ask for the title to be adjusted to spoiler-free that would be so kind.

I think the ST was always going ro be revealed after the banishment of the first traitor. Production would not have known that ot was going to be this early.

I agree with this. It has to be Roxy or Ross for that reason alone I think. Also Roxy was shown a lot in the first two episodes but not much in the last one. Maybe to throw us off - so I think it’s more likely to be her so there’s still an element of surprise for some people.

Nobody is posting any spoilers because everybody is watching at TV pace. The speculation about the players in the media is just that.
I think Harriet has ruled herself out as the ST because presumably they also take the traitor oath and she would be breaking it by going for Hugo

Re. Ellie her phrase 'Secret Traitor' was in the context of talking about how she didn't want to appear to others by not saying too much and just observing. She said it in the diary room to camera where she's not got to hide anything.

It would be a risky move to tease the viewer and sort of undermines the principles of the show.

Sometimes contestants say something where they are spot on the money.

It's frustrating to the viewer normally when we know who the traitors are and they don't.

It also might allude to other secrets.

@ChinFluff46 "Sometimes contestants say something where they are spot on the money." - yes, look at them all laughing about how funny it would be if one of them was a detective

I'm finding the family tree difficult to get behind 😁, I sort of think...but what consequences does it really have, other than us going 'oh no way I didn't know that'.

And obviously I guess it would be interesting if two related people were in the final and had to lie to each other. Mathematically that's probably slim though.

Yes that's a good example, hilarious. It's literally like the answer is right in front of them 🤣😂

I also think in some ways there's a lot of game play we don't see. They may well have secret suspicions there's a detective but they want to make it sound ludicrous so the detective doesn't come for them 🤣 I for one would be rubbish at that game.

@Umbilicat I’ve asked MNHQ to edit the thread title and will make sure there’s something in the first post on the next threads to say we welcome theories and speculation but not spoilers.

OR the one who said that has a relationship with Amanda...?

I thought the minute I heard she had a stammer that that was a great tool to have. We don’t know that she has and we don’t know how severe it is. That gives her an advantage of time to think about questions etc. never watched this series before so not aware if people are using different tactics.

The issue is people potentially reposting info found on social media etc which hasn’t come from the TV shows. It could be irrelevant but it’s best kept off this thread just in case. 🙏

There is nothing in the rules preventing a traitor from taking out another traitor. They can't reveal the identity of another traitor but they absolutely can set out to have them banished. This has happened many times in numerous series of the show, both UK and international. Harriet never at any point revealed anything she should not know. She simply said she believed Hugo to be a traitor, gave reasons why, recruited others to her position and then successfully argued her case at the round table. None of that is against the rules.

What is interesting though is that Harriet brought up her suspicions of Hugo to Amanda, another traitor. This could be coincidence of course.

I don't think Ellie is the ST precisely because she used the term "secret traitor" and the producers left it in. I think they did that for some easy misdirection. If she was the ST I don't think she'd have used the term in that context.

What is interesting though is that Harriet brought up her suspicions of Hugo to Amanda, another traitor. This could be coincidence of course.

Amanda’s not a traitor, is she? Unless she’s the secret traitor - but we don’t know who that is yet.

We have seen traitor turn on traitor, of course. I can't think that I have ever seen them raise it first? But perhaps I have forgotten.
Amanda isn't a traitor

I don't want to give spoilers for other seasons but it has happened on the most recent international version I've watched and on others too. It is definitely not against the rules for a traitor to do this.

And apologies I meant Rachel not Amanda. For some reason I keep mixing up those two.

No sorry I meant Rachel. I keep mixing them up for some reason.