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!

They’re not siblings one, she’s Scottish and he’s Welsh.

I think she just fixated on him being a barrister meaning that he’d be murdered because she was so convinced she would have been murdered for that reason if she’d revealed she had been one. It was a good theory and she executed her takedown incredibly well, but ultimately she was also a bit lucky.

The way she asked Reece to leave because she wanted to talk to Stephen alone was really ridiculous, since Stephen’s name has already been brought up at the round table I think that was a really suspicious thing to do.

I don’t think he’s going to make it to the round table - he’ll be murdered before breakfast.

I think it’s Harriet. She was sat next to Rachel at breakfast and when Rachel was feigning surprise at who was murdered, I felt Harriet had a knowing glint in her eye

You don't know those writing shots are of the actual ST and not production staff.

Jade said that she played social deception/deduction games. A lot of these are quite similar to Traitors (I am a gamer too, and a regular player of social deduction games). So she’s probably quite clued up.

How do you know the ST is right handed?

I’m going with Ellie as the ST. I would also think Jade, but I am pretty sure that she told Claudia that she definitely wanted to be a faithful not a traitor… would she make someone a traitor who had said they didn’t want to be one when so many others, in fact most that we saw had a preference for being a traitor?

Not until the following night, as no murder that night. Which means he has time to voice his suspicions (if he has any!) to the others...

Ooo! Post-production must be an absolute marathon, with everything riding on the edit. Do spill more beans!
DH and I were trying to gauge rough timings for all those after-dark comings and goings, and failing miserably.

She's very defensive/prickly then. Or is that part of the deception?? 🤔

i missed the previous thread, but did anyone pick up on how during the argument at the last RT Hugo something along the lines of “you’re the only one who has prosecuted” before Claudia cut him off? I’m surprised none of the players mentioned or queried it - seeing as she is keeping her former detective status secret it alludes to Hugo and Amanda knowing each other.

I’m confused about the dabbing. Rachel put her finger in the pot of red stuff, took it out again and then put the lid back on. I would not have expected one finger load to have lasted for nine dabs, so why didn’t she leave on the lid until she’d finished? It would have saved time on a task she wanted to do quickly. If someone else approached she could have quickly put the lid back on then.

Also, I second a poster on the previous thread who wondered why Rachel didn’t go to the loo to wash the red stuff off her finger, except that it would not have made good tv.

Perhaps the detective inspector will examine the family tree closely for the red fingerprints, and then use some ruse to look at everyone else’s to see if she can match them with the red ones.

I saw that too but I'm unsure if it was the way it was edited.

Yes, I noticed this! Hugo definitely said “you’re the only one who has prosecuted” to Amanda. I thought he was referencing her job and I must have missed a bit in the episode when it had come up but maybe he was just talking about how she had gone for Jade, but a weird choice of words, even for a barrister.

Loved the portrait challenge though. So funny. I thought Faraaz and Jack were such good sports re the cow milking and horse riding, had us in stitches.

@Leopardheart01 ooh did Claudia cut him off because he was saying something too revealing about her job?

Maybe barristers would get to know detectives through their work.

Claudia when interviewed said that they would not pick someone as a Traitor who has said they don’t want to be one

Beyond lame! And wouldn't that undermine the entire point of the game anyway?

i am going with Jack due to lack of airtime

Harriet Is insufferable and I don’t like either traitor, agree they were ridiculous by the portrait.

Rachel always look suspicious imo

Several of the younger men seem to be going for a very 70s porn look, for want of a better word? 😏

I don’t want to post a spoiler but I accidentally saw something online which gave photographic evidence of a connection between two of the Traitors.

If we already have the one we are aware of, the one I saw the spoiler for, plus the Harriet/Hugo brother and sister, that’s already a lot of secret relationships.

I don’t think I like it, although to be fair, if Harriet and Hugo is genuine, it really didn’t count for anything did it?!!!

I think the second envelope on Uncloaked was there to reveal that Hugo is Amanda's brother/cousin. I saw photos online of them next to each other and they've got the same eyes and similar facial features.

Ooh I'm signing up for the Hugo/Amanda connection- they do look very similar next to each other.