This time it’s personal! Traitors 2026 | Thread 5 | Spoiler Free!

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Link to previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5472361-the-secret-traitor-has-been-uncloaked-traitors-2026-thread-4-spoiler-free?page=1

Welcome to Thread 5 of Traitors 2026.

This thread runs at TV pace so do not read any further if you are not up to date with the live broadcast. Whilst most discussion will be on the current series, inevitably people will refer to previous series/players/winners so reader beware if you’ve not seen the 3 previous editions, or the celebrity version.

While we welcome posters discussing their theories and speculating on relationships/connections between players, please don’t post spoilers from elsewhere that may ruin things for those of us who like to see things unfold over the course of the series.

The story so far:

Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen
Fiona (Secret Traitor)

Murdered
Netty
Ben
Maz

Banished
Judy (Faithful)
Hugo (Traitor)
Ross (Faithful)
Amanda (Faithful)

Candidates for murder in Episode 6: Ellie, Faraaz, Jade, Matthew, Reece and Sam (Amanda was also a potential but was banished beforehand and Fiona and Stephen cannot be murdered).

The floor is yours…

Fiona bangs on about "women of a certain age" being capable and deserving respect, then lets the side down by admitting that her son runs her Instagram page because (and I quote) "I haven't got a clue with anything like that" ... 🙄

TBF I’ve only heard one “I voted for yourself” so far & that was on tonight’s show.

I think it was Stephen who said "put the cat among the chickens" and it made us laugh, because we used to have chickens that would very quickly see off any cats unwise enough to venture into our garden... 😂

Haven’t read the whole thread because holy moly it’s long. The task - the mirror that said ‘who is the fairer of them all’ was this asking who is the most beautiful of them all?

Could be worse if he did a French tuck or maybe he has

She's also been very, mmm, open aka #ad about the facelift she had

Or does fairest mean fair ‘all’s fair in love and war’ type rather than beautiful in the medieval sense?

Oh, he definitely has

Given the mirror I think simply the best looking.

The questionnaires they completed probably asked a lot of questions, worded as “who is fairest” “who is blandest” etc, so it’s only when it was worded as “who is fairest of them all” on a mirror that the link to looks would be made.

Jade said it yesterday I think, but it has thankfully been far less common this series

And I only remember it was Jade because I’d really expected a PhD student to know better

I think the whole connections thing is so boring. I don't see what it adds to anything. Despite that this is my favourite series of Traitors since series 2. I'm enjoying it much more than last year's.

Yes I think it was deliberately ambiguous

So Matthew was the most beautiful of all? Not saying he wasn’t but perhaps he was the ‘most fair’ of all?

It always is though isn't it!
That's her MO so she gets away with it!

If one of us normal people did our make up like that we'd look like we'd got ready in the dark using someone else's make up. But it's Claudia innit, so she slays whatever she wears 😍

Fiona really hasn’t done the cause of older women any good at all.

Love Claudia! She looks great and I love her style.

She’s made me look at black capes and buy those red fingerless gloves!

I definitely think they answered the question based on who they thought was the most fair-minded, not on looks (not meaning to be mean to Matthew, but I think there are a few people better looking than him)

I thought it meant who is blondest? 😂

Yup, I caught Jade's last night but missed tonight's. I blame Friday knackeredness.

Stephen played a blinder tonight and Rachel was cool as a cucumber - especially in the turret scenes.

Fiona is, however, a basket case - she tried to make out that her attack on Rachel was strategic - for me it looked like she flew into a jealous rage about Amanda confiding in Rachel - a. because Amanda chose Rachel as her confidant rather than Fiona and b. that Rachel was the centre of attention during the reveal. She also lied about her vote against Sam and the burner phone story was pure bollocks.

Haha 😜

She did say she thought she'd get away with it but her plan wasn't as good as she thought it was or words to that effect.