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Welcome to Thread 7 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 (as at end of Ep 6):

Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen
Fiona (Secret Traitor)

Murdered
Netty
Ben
Maz
Reece

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

This thread is starting mid-way through Episode 7, so goodness only knows what is going to happen in the Round Table Showdown that is brewing.

The floor is yours…

Yes I thought it was really clunky editing at the roundtable debate yesterday

This is the crux of the matter . If people genuinely like you they tend not to vote for you .
On Celebrity Traitors Cat said that she was surprised that no one suspected Alan despite the fact that he often appeared nervous and on edge .
The truth is that no one suspected Alan because they genuinely liked him coupled with the fact that his public image is of someone who is a bit ‘nervy’ or ‘ditzy ‘ so his behaviour was not a surprise to the other celebrities and they would not be able to pick up on any deception
People like Stephen and therefore don’t suspect him despite the fact that he looks ‘guilty’.

I love this show and think that Claudia is excellent

Interesting point made by Harriet about Rachel wearing the wacky dungarees and looking like a children’s TV presenter. Then suddenly coming to the round table dressed like the new corporate manager who’s sole intention is to save the company money by firing all the hardworking, loyal staff whilst wishing them all the best, knowing full well that they will soon be leaving that company and moving onto another corporate role and ruining the lives of other staff there.
Why isn’t anyone putting 2 and 2 together and working out that both Fiona and Harriet have said Rachel is a traitor and both of them were faithfuls.
I’m also sure that Harriet named Steven as a traitor, maybe not at the round table but to other contestants.
I wouldn’t trust Matthew. I would insist he told me what he asked the traitors otherwise, I would think he is a traitor. Same with Rachel, I would ask her again what she asked the traitors as her wishy washy answers weren’t clear enough.
Team Jessie to win, with James, or maybe Adam who is growing on me. So too is Sam!

Just watching this am-

as the camera panned round I saw Farooz.

Literally completely forgot he was there.
Has he spoken at all?
I would hate for someone like him to sneak into the later rounds for doing absolutely nothing.

I am finding that I really like Sam

It must be extremely stressful being in there. Harriet was so good putting Hugo on the spot, just fantastic and it was a shame she didn't keep calm, I was expecting more of the same.

The breakfast outburst, and even the confessional outburst were great TV, but just pure emotion on H's part, and she must have been exhausted afterwards. Almost everyone comes across better on Uncloaked, and I think Harriet did too. If she'd only named Rachel at the RT it wouldn't have muddied the waters.

I think I'd like Stephen to win currently, I'm not loyal though - that might change tonight!

He was bloody great .
This shows that one should not underestimate anyon
. Hugo the barrister and Rachel at first meeting would be more formidable as traitors , but it turns out that Stephen is ‘cleverer’ than both

About 19 minutes their take on Rachel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002pqlh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

edit: when it hits the fan.

Great comment.
He does look as though he’s about to whip his cap off, scratch his head and say, well the work will cost 4 grand mate, but I’ll do it for 3 fifty for cash, just for you like.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The problem is that just because someone is a faithful doesn't mean they are right. Round Tables get so confused when lots of accusations are thrown around. Previous contestants have said they can last for hours as well. If Harriet laid out her case against Rachel at the start, which i think she did, then it would be easy to forget what she said in the counter accusations that followed. Harriet also didn't help anything by accusing 4 or 5 people instead of just focusing on Rachel.

I believed that the clunky editing is probably the result of the productive team trying to craft a narrative from something that was all over the place in the full version. If they want to win they need to work together which they don't seem to be doing.

I caught up with Uncloaked on BBC Sounds. Harriet did a much better job than Fiona at repairing the damage her loss of temper did. Just think, if she had stayed calm, she could have been a successful version of Jaz!

How can they 'work together' when they don't know who is on their side?

They don't need to know who is on which side though. They can agree to go for a specific person and vote them out and who the group decided to go for and whys they are right give them information. That's what Celia did on the Celebrity version and at a certain point it's the only way to proceed. Come together to vote for the person with the most suspicion, find out if they are faithful or not and then decide where to go next. You need a voting block or the confusion is overwhelming.

I have no idea why Harriet didn't mention her idea that Fiona v Rachel was traitor on traitor. It was the most convincing piece of evidence she had, far better than the rest of what she said and it would have given her the foundations of a voting block.

I felt the same yesterday.

Just seems like there's a bit too much drama and accusation in this series - first Fiona vs Rachel, and then Harriet vs Rachel - she went from quiet mouse to drama queen, and the aggression was OTT and out of character. In an earlier episode, she said she would stay quiet until the end, and then suddenly decided she was going to Kamikaze? It's very odd.

Even if it's not secretly been staged, the way the game has been played this year (with restrictions on who can be murdered, either through the Secret Traitor selection or the huge number of shields on offer) - makes it much less enjoyable for me.

In prior years, it felt as though we got to know more of the cast earlier on - this year there are 'star' characters and then the extras/Interchangeables. Doesn't feel authentic. Also don't understand why they have had (and perhaps there still are) family connections - what does it add to the Game?

And all those saying it's the BBC and it's robust etc etc - did you forget what happened with the Trump video edit? Nothing is impossible.

Roxy was trying to ask Harriet to let someone else get a word in edgeways and explain to the others what happened over the mirrors. Harriet’s slow hand clap and shouting her down was staggeringly rude. Roxy was fully entitled to be annoyed - she a fellow participant, not Harriet’s staff.

I spent most of ep 7 confused about the shield thing because I didn't understand that the traitors don't know who has shields unless the contestants tell them. I was watching them do all their plotting about not saying who got a shield, and I was wondering what the point was, assuming that Claudia / whoever tells the traitors who has shields. Realised at the end that the traitors actually don't know if the faithfuls haven't admitted it.

Felt for the shield-stealing guy. I could understand how he was tempted and then felt bad. Very little impulse control, that one.

If smart you stay beneath the radar at this stage.

On paper, although academics not a yardstick re:.good game play, Ellie the smartest with multiple degrees and a PhD.

If, as I suspect, she came in to top public school, (fact), on a scholarship, (conjecture), she’s ANYTHING but bland.

Ellie for the win. If it’s a faithful win, who might she take with her.

@Sparklesandspandexgallore Fiona was a traitor, not a faithful.

Why isn’t anyone putting 2 and 2 together and working out that both Fiona and Harriet have said Rachel is a traitor and both of them were faithfuls.

Fiona was a traitor.

Also I find it crazy that just because someone suspects someone and is found to be a faithful that their opinion suddenly becomes fact.

It doesn't suddenly confer knowledge to be murdered as a faithful

I disagree about Roxy. She let her loyalty to/friendship with Rachel get in the way of what was going on. Rachel of all people in there did not need anyone to intervene on her behalf and for Roxy to then say she thought Harriet was a traitor because she'd not kowtowed to being told by Roxy to let Rachel talk was bonkers. I don't like Roxy much though - there's something sanctimonious about her at times yet she can be a total hypocrite too!

I'd like someone to ask Rachel about her FBI training and get some tips.

I keep getting the sense that there is something different this season. Not only seem the contestants smarter and more mature (educated?), unlike, for example, that Godawful Leanne last year, who would spit her dummy every time anyone dared suggest she could be a traitor, and become really aggressive and intimidating. This lot seem to just behave better, overall.

But with Fiona's and Harriet's weird behaviours, both of which came out of nowhere for me, I wonder how much more stuff is being engineered by the programme makers than in precious years. Were Fiona and Harriet put up to it?

Yes this is spot on, although in Judy’s case I think there were strong vibes of “loud black woman” in the “evidence” cited that she was a traitor.

I’m not getting the anger at Roxy either. She/Jade/Ellie have been as interchangeable as the interchangeable men up until now. This week the edits show her trying to get Harriet to let someone else get a word in instead of ranting and slow hand clapping and suddenly she is too loud.

Yeah, Harriet was done. It was clear that she’d had enough already.

I know and I can’t understand why none of the contestants said that to Harriet! Not even Sam, who had made the same point a few episodes ago.

That said, I didn’t get the sense that many of them immediately left the banishment believing that Rachel was a traitor, just because Harriet had confirmed she was a faithful.

both Fiona and Harriet have said Rachel is a traitor and both of them were faithfuls.

Fiona was a Traitor!

I do see why people suspected Harriet because those big shows are usually done by Traitors; nobody else is confident enough. But after such a big show, I'd probably want both people out to be safe.

Players keep saying Rachel is really popular with lots of social capital. I guess she must be, but the edit really isn't showing how. I don't dislike her but I really can't warm to her.