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

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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!

Re the two letters on the table in Uncloaked - we were meant to see them both. The camera zoomed in on Ben picking up the top letter, but the second letter was so obvious. They didn't have to do that!

It would make sense for Hugo to be allowed to find out the ST.

For me Jade didn't want to be traitor. Her defensiveness at accusations of being a traitor is consistent with this.

Maybe they'll edit that in on the next episode of Uncloaked...

That was my thought.

I'm still finding it funny how much Stephen was bricking it with Rachel.

It's like he was being asked to commit murder, bless.

About Harriet being the potential ST - wouldn't launching an attack on Hugo at the RT be against the Traitors' Code? I get that Traitors have to vote with the crowd sometimes just to protect themselves and avoid standing out, but I didn't think they were supposed to proactively lead the onslaught? (Thinking of the "parting shot" comment in Series 1...)

I strongly suspect Fiona is the secret traitor and have thought so from the start. I felt she was pretty convincing when she spoke with Claudia about wanting to be a traitor so I expected her to be picked, and everything she's said and done since then has strengthened my belief. I think she's really playing up people's natural tendency to dismiss older women - for example she totally manipulated Amanda into giving her some "tips" on how to play the game better. As if she needed them 😅 This way nobody suspects her but also she's getting a fair bit of screen time. I think the producers want the secret traitor to be someone the audience feels they know but at the same time wouldn't suspect and Fiona's ditsy act suits that perfectly.

DH thinks it's Amanda and we have a £50 bet riding on it! Richard Osman said he thinks it's Harriet. I think all three of these women are very impressive but especially Harriet. I loved the way she took down Hugo at the round table.

Well there’s no way Richard Osman Doesn’t know who the ST is (whatever he says, these show biz types know all the back stage goss). So the fact he’s said Harriet, means it’s not her. Fiona was my guess at the beginning then she’s become too obviously ‘ST’, so she’s not it. I’d bet £50 on it being Roxy, her mum saying in passing that Roxy had said / done something unusual, gave it away. The homogeneous youngish men who cares, not them cos none of us can tell them apart.. Amanda is fabulous but too obvious.

Roxy is a good bet, and I've just thought of something. All three known traitors are white - would the producers really choose only white people to be traitors?

No, they can do that as long as they are doing it from the same perspective a faithful would but they can’t blatantly say that they know someone is a traitor. I think we’ve seen traitors leading the charge on other traitors every season and it’s often a pretty good clue for the faithful when it’s traitor vs traitor.

As I said earlier, a black or brown woman has been chosen to be a Traitor in every series till now. Ironically this puts a target on every WOC's back! So may well be Roxy or Jade. I think many players know this but don't say it out loud.

BTW so nice to see Charlotte from last year's series pregnant on Uncloaked. I seem to remember that she'd had fertility problems and was planning to use any prize money for fertility treatment. It looks as though her wish has come true.

The thing with celebrity traitors that made it different to regular traitors is that the celebrity one had an established pecking order. They already had their status established. Stephen and Johnathan were the most senior people there in the sense of establish performers so it made sense to have one of them as a traitor.

I agree. Very negative impact of trying to be inclusive & I think that was part of Judy’s downfall - she was acting suspiciously (I thought she was the secret traitor) & that on top of being a WOC meant she was a target.

[I don’t mean there shouldn't be inclusivity but rather this is a negative side effect - not sure how they overcome this!]

I would love it to be Jessie, but I don't think she has had enough screen time (in the edit) for it to be her. I think she's been massively underestimated by people because of her stammer so it'd be awesome if it was her with the initial 'ultimate' control.

I've binged the first 3 episodes tonight, so feel able to now join this thread.

God, I love it.

Faraaz by contrast is three years younger and seems much more on top of the gameplay.

Umm, well he hasn't actually been accused of anything yet and stayed pretty much silent so no idea how he would react under pressure. I am becoming suspicious he could be the Secret Traitor though as he is keeping so under the radar- him or Ross or Ellie! I did think Fiona but that's looking a bit too obvious now.

I'm not convinced there's any more real life family connections and hope there isn't as don't really see the point in them. In my opinion they detract from the game.

Not keen at all on Reece or Sam, both seem very full of themselves, shout loudest types and Sam has a very arrogant look about him.

The ST is unlikely to be Amanda because she’s left handed ( watch her at the snooker table) and the ST is right handed. I think it’s Ellie . A psychologist would be a good choice.

Have just found this thread... loving the list in the opening post. Very comprehensive :)

I think Ross for ST.

Reece isn’t the ST, we know this as he has been on the list to be murdered. Talking of which - that’s exactly what’s going to happen to him next probably.

Good point - I’d forgotten that. In which case he definitely be raising it at the next round table or he will be murdered. He might stand a better chance if he makes a good case.

Kind of serves him right for being so obliging to leave them alone when looking so suspicious.

Rachel and Stephen were hanging around by the picture and didn’t want him there - so much so that he offered to leave them alone. That was the odd bit.

They should have left him to the picture and then had Rachel go back later to finish finger printing.

I’m assuming of course that the method of shortlisting will be revealed as they usually do reveal the public murders/listings.