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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…

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Yes, they certainly behave better, from my point of view, this year. Until someone goes a little bonkers, like Fiona and Harriet.

I totally agree about "pretty privilege" and Leanne. I wonder if we are seeing some of it this year with Roxy (who I currently don't particularly mind, although she seems to irritate a few people on here). The other young attractive women are all more on the quiet side, although Jessie has come out of her shell a lot more since being voted most likeable, or whatever it was, and I see glimpses of and potential for "irritatingness" in her, because she's so dramatic.

Yes, I must say if it were me I would have declined her invitation to vote her out, pointing out that (a) her turning out to be a faithful doesn't automatically make her right and (b) I'm supposed to vote out only people who I think are traitors.

I must say, I can understand why she's an ex barrister. Last night the arguments she was putting forward had such obvious flaws in them, and she really jumped the shark when she said she thought there were now five traitors. It's not hard to work out that producers really wouldn't have had seven traitors altogether, and that they can't have had that many recruitments - they would have had some idea about it as there would have been no murders on those nights.

Its Predicable that Rachel will be in the final. I would have preferred it to be Harriet. She seems more genuine to me as a person. It can’t have been easy for her being at the castle with so much alcohol around when she has struggled with alcoholism in the past.
I can’t stand the herd mentality and the way they fawn over Rachel. I was surprised that Jessie voted Harriet out. Roxy is the most irritating person there. It was nauseating listening to her last night. I’m hoping Matty goes next seeing as he was so keen to be seduced - “pick me, pick me, pick me” 🤮
Ellie does not give you much faith in psychologists. I thought she would be better as sussing people out. 🐑 🐑 🐑

I would love to know why they keep saying Jade is a traitor. I only remember she is there at the RT.

Yes, in the second Australian one. That one was a bit weird. There were a number of people who twigged the traitor responsible, and they'd come to the Round Table determined to out them; only for the traitor to say something like "Yes, we haven't heard much from you, have we, that's really suspicious" and all the faithful would follow like sheep and vote out the person who was challenging the traitor. It's worth watching, if only because this person is virtually sociopathic and utterly convinced they have an absolute right to win.

I assumed she meant 4/5 in total

I know this is dead late but my power went again last night mid watch. However all I could think of was Rob Bryden popping up and saying "It is, of course, a LIE."

Yes, but she said there were five members still in the game. That would make it seven in all, which would be a tad ridiculous.

I agree with this!

and with @threesocksmorgan the Jade thing is just quite funny. She never seems to have done anything except be statuesque and a bit naturally introverted.

There is very much a popularity thing going on this year with the Rachel crowd. When will they wake up, I wonder? Roxy is completely in thrall. Not the smartest.

It’s so heavily edited it is hard to know why certain things happen sometimes. They must all chat for ages and have little cliques, but we don’t see or hear any of this.

I tried Blood Orange but found it unreadable: cartoonish drama with unlikeable characters.

Until Harriet went off the rails, her game plan to keep Rachel in until the end really is the only one that makes sense. If you know who a traitor is, you keep them in as long as possible, then at the end game you know who to get rid of. If you get rid of your known traitor and someone who was previously a faithful gets recruited, you’re back to square one with minimal evidence to go on.

Course that only works if you only bring one traitor to the end game, if you accidentally keep more than one in then you’re not doing so well.

Also, I genuinely don’t know how nobody called out “oh come on!” when Rachel said she was trained by the FBI. Even if it’s true, it sounds like the kind of plot twist on a bad drama that would make you switch off.

I don't know about Ellie. My feeling is that she would have it in for Rachel, as Rachel was the one who got Ross banished, yet she has never said a word against her. So I think she knows she is a traitor but is keeping her close and staying under the radar for a bit longer as if Rachel goes she just get replaced by someone new which makes the game harder.

I’m now wondering whether Stephen will have the balls and the timing to bring Rachel down. Surely he must know that their ‘pact’ to never vote for each other was meaningless on both sides?

Ellie might not take it that personally - after all, nobody knows Ross was her boyfriend, or she might just accept it's a game - or she might not blame anyone else for it, since he did play really badly, poor guy. I can totally understand why but it's an example of not trying to overcompensate!

I realised last night when Adam was speaking on his own that I just hadn't noticed him before. He's never really contributed anything to a Round Table or any other discussion, has he? He'll probably get through to the final just be being so far under the radar.

She knows Ross is her boyfriend and that is all that matters. She said, the same episode he was voted out, she needed to stay in and avenge him.

But she suggested five names that didn't include the already-banished Hugo and Fiona and said she thought there were potentially five traitors crammed in the confession booth. She'd completely lost the plot!

Roxy was trying to tell them that Harriet had wanted her to go and ask the questions and Harriet kept closing her down. If I were a faithful and Harriet was preventing me from telling the others what she had done, I’d assume Harriet was working in bad faith and I’d be all the more keen to tell them.

I watched that bit twice and it really was Harriet blocking Roxy from talking, not the other way around. The slow hand clap was shockingly rude.

He isn't a white male???
And easy to recognise???

But i agree with the.

Apart from Stephen and Sam.

I don't know the names of the others and only more recently have started to recognise the name of Matt because of the backstabbing he did.

Still not sure on the names of the one who stole the shield and any others.

I think this is in part where Harriet went wrong, that she was approaching it as a barrister and not as a social game - thinking that you could turn up at the round table and present your dossier of assembled evidence, rather than realising most of the work is done outside of roundtable.

I think it worked better with Hugo slightly earlier on in the game as it was early enough that allegiances weren't as strong and also because the whole "we have to find the bad person who did this" breakfast speech Hugo made was so hammy other people didn't take as much convincing.

I've never thought this before about The Traitors, but I strongly feel Harriet was directed and/or scripted to go off like that at breakfast, and maybe at the round table. It seemed to come completely out of the blue, and she was so rude and forceful, if she had any idea about all about gameplay she would not have behaved like that.
Her ‘evidence' against Rachel was no such thing either, by comparison with Hugo when she had some concrete things to prove her point.
I also felt that Stephen’s monologue in the turret when they were working out who to kill was to articulate and smooth to be spontaneous. He may have been told or helped out with what to say, or maybe he stumbled through many iterations of it on his own or with guidance and they put them all together and edited them so it looks like he made one fluent speech.
I'm feeling more cynical about this show than I ever have before!
Roxy is getting right on my tits: she's sanctimonious and arrogant (remember her thinking she was the most likeable?) but with a veneer of being oh-so-considerate and sweet. I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her.
I think Faraaz might step out of the shadows at some point; he is, as pps have said, deliberately staying out of the spotlight. I wonder if he is still thinking about how Stephen came back from being in the cages? He raised it at the round table but nobody picked up on it at the time.

EDITED: typos

And yet in Roxy vs Harriet where Harriet wouldn’t let her get a word in and was preventing Roxy from telling the group about the mirrors Roxy is judged “rude” and “aggressive” when Harriet was the slow handclapper. Young mixed race woman vs older posh white woman.

If you look at the Roxy/Jade/Ellie trio, Jade and Ellie are more supported than Roxy despite contributing next to nothing that we see, be that in tasks, RT or side discussions. Roxy is at least trying to play the game rather than cruise along on the efforts of others.

In that respect Rachel and Roxy have something in common - they are both actively trying to play their roles well and not sitting back letting someone else take the risks and do all the work.

I hate it when a cruiser wins, be they traitor or faithful let it be someone who made an actual contribution. As a secondary point I like it when the winner is someone for whom the money makes an actual difference.

On a different point - Matthew not revealing his questions and his reasoning for not revealing them looks sussy-sus-sus - I don't know why he didn't make up questions and answers! He's put himself in the firing line there and I can't understand why.