Tell Me Lies Tell Me Sweet Little Lies | Traitors 2026 | Thread 7 | Spoiler Free!

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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…

Some sleuth would turn something up! But def make it harder. These sort of shows probably do make you vulnerable to ‘haters’, stalkers & mentally unwell people. Do all have insta comments enabled?

I'd say it was Harriet who was judged rude and aggressive, by other players at least! And of course, it was Harriet who left ....

As I said last night, I think Harriet went scorched earth because she was done and wanted to get home. Dealing with so many numpties and that baffling men blend must've been so draining.

so much conjecture and so much in the editing and what is presented to the public , same as strictly , the apprentice etc

Is Ellie from a very privileged background her public school suggests? If not she was there on scholarship which points to smarts as does the PhD? Is Hugo an uncle?

I got one last week, but abandoned it before I got halfway through

You’re right, Harriet did say something about Stephen. When Jessie kept naming Stephen, Harriet said something about needing to listen to Jessie and would be keeping an eye on him. So for Harriet not to name Stephen as a possible traitor at the end- well it just seems odd.

What school was she at, you’ve mentioned it a few times I’m nosy.

Also I think Harriet discovered that in real life the characters around you rarely behave in the way you want! Writing psychological thriller isn't the same as being good at reading people in real life.

I'm just re watching last night's episode and it seems that Harriet got angry at the traitors' first answer. She then went after them based on her ego. When Roxy interrupted her nicely prepared speech at breakfast she just decided to burn everything down and her in it. Was it because she realised that she didn't have a much power as she thought she had?

Harriet on Uncloaked seemed far more in control and human. The stress of the castle obviously gets to everyone.

I do think a lot of the theories around why would they questions can be put down to stress. People do daft things under pressure.

I'm just re watching last night's episode and it seems that Harriet got angry at the traitors' first answer.

I agree she did, but I’m not entirely sure why. There didn’t seem anything in there that was really worth getting angry about, given the game.

I have no idea why Rachel is so popular though, nothing in the editing shows her as more likeable than the others.

right now, she can stay in, she's off Stephen, because of Fiona and can happily stay until the end potentially - makes no odds. because the traitors won't be detected by her Same as Roxy

I think ego seemed a factor in the behaviour and unpopularity of Judy, Fiona, Amanda and Harriet.

Roxy seems a bit like Lianne in some of her behaviours.

Later at breakfast she said she'd " had enough of the machinations around her". Maybe she felt she was being used or targeted in some way that we haven't seen in the edit? Maybe the intense atmosphere of the castle got to her and distorted things?

It was really odd what she said at breakfast and the angry aggressive way she spoke to everyone and then to Roxy didn't help her case.

It must be how she is with the other players in general. I agree we don't see much in the edit but, thinking about series 2 where Harry was incredibly popular, I don't recall seeing much evidence of either other than what others were saying.

No, Reece.

I wonder how late they had her up into the early hours filming. She looks like someone who needs her sleep! So I think that tiredness, coupled with her obvious frustration when she got to the crypt and discovered it would be communication by note only, tipped her over the edge.

I didn’t understand Harriet’s reasoning that if they voted her off and she said she was a faithful then they’d believe her about Rachel, but her being a faithful doesn’t mean she’s right and she really didn’t have much ‘evidence’. I’m not surprised she’s not working as a barrister anymore!

I was very proud of my 9 year-old last night when he listened carefully to what Harriet said and immediately commented “None of that is evidence, is it?”

The tiredness and the pressure definitely gets to some contestants. I was surprised it got to her. All she did was focus suspicion on herself.

From today's Popbitch email....

'Which contestant in this season's Traitors had to be told off for getting touchy-feely with crew members? Some of the crew complained when this outwardly sweet participant started to be weirdly physical with them.'

I'm wondering if it's Fiona?

Well done 9 year old!

It was strange that she didn't mention the one piece of "evidence" that might have helped, that she believed Fiona vs Rachel was traitor on traitor.

Doubt it, they say whoever it is is "outwardly sweet".