The Time for Talking is, Almost, Over | Traitors 2026 | Thread 11 | Spoiler Free!

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Welcome to Thread 11 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 - this is a mid episode thread change so do not read on if you are not up to date with the live broadcast!

Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen
Fiona (Secret Traitor)

Murdered
Netty
Ben
Maz
Reece
Adam
Jessie
Roxy

Banished
Judy (Faithful)
Hugo (Traitor)
Ross (Faithful)
Amanda (Faithful)
Fiona (Traitor)
Harriet (Faithful)
Sam (Faithful)
Ellie (Faithful)
Matthew (Faithful)

The floor is yours…

Can’t catch up on posts now, but just wanted to say how adorable Faraaz was when he said he’d hug his mum every 10min if they were on the show together. Hope my kids turn out like him!

I keep asking dh who the Ross look a like is.

He eventually got fed up with me tonight and was ‘ffs his name is jack’. The fact that I can’t remember him means he’s likely to win.

I could never remember the guy that won with Leanne either.

All in the editing of course and nothing to do with the fact that I’m rubbish at faces & names.

I mean we all knew it was going to be a cliffhanger!

Which makes me wonder, what happens tomorrow that made them think that it wouldn't be? Does Rachel go out meaning that tomorrow Stephen goes first and then it's just half an hour of us wondering which set of faithfuls will win? So they needed something to make sure we go in excited?

Did I blink and miss it, or did we not see Roxy's reaction to the traitor reveal clip?

Yes Jack really let Faraaz down.

Would they really give a winner such a dull edit?

I think even that one is recorded a bit earlier on the day of the final, rather than actually live, but they take their phones off them and don't let them out until after the broadcast (maybe, I have no idea).

Did anyone hear Jack’s double ‘yourself’ in one sentence 🤦🏼‍♀️. “yourself and yourself”. They’re all at it! Not sure Rachel has ever said it though…

Hurrah for Faraaz! I’ve rated him from the start. And when I read his game plan was to keep quiet about his suspicions, sit back and watch, became more plausible he was a good player. But still wondered if he was clueless.

To hear he’d got it spot on and was suspicious of both Rachel and Stephen. But had kept it quiet and only showed his cards at just the right time to protect himself from murder…

What a player!

While I hugely admire both Rachel and Stephen, they’ve been in the know and therefore in control (barring the Secret Traitor). Whereas Faraaz, as Faithful, has been sailing blind. Few Faithful to fully trust or join forces with, unlike previous years. Even Jack let him down over Rachel. So, he’s had to play it pretty alone.

And he’s played a blinder. Really hope he wins.

Yes, I've a feeling that someone explained it on a previous series thread, but I can't remember exactly.

No, we didn’t. And that’d be juicy.

Maybe holding back for the final aftershow?

We thought the same thing. What a sweet lad.

Roxy just looked so uncomfortable during the whole episode of uncloaked.

I hope Rachael is bannished tomorrow and I would love Faraz to win the money 💰 he has played a great game.

If she goes, as it now seems likely she will ( 🥺) she can at least have that claim to fame ( that she didn’t resort to ‘yourself’) Not our Rache!

Yep I've also been rooting for Faraaz. When we finally heard from him about his "just keeping cards close to my chest" I figured he had sussed the game and was hoping to get to the end to make his move. Even better he's correct!

I'm actually glad they killed Roxy. I said to DH yesterday that I hoped they would murder her as it'd be kinder to be murdered earlier, than to discover at the endgame your "best friends" were traitors a la Mollie.

She is a head of comms, and seems to have higher standards than ones I've had to deal with. She deserves to win just for that! I believe she also hasn't mangled the difference between less and fewer, which drives me insane.

However, she's clearly a goner.

I wonder if you would be paid the same fee if you're banished first or if there's a sliding scale, the longer youjstay the more you get?

The problem for Faraaz is now Jack who has no idea about anyone apart from being totally convinced that Stephen is a faithful. So does Faraaz have any chance of winning when Jack is so sure about Stephen?

I would like him to win along with James as although James has been totally wrong most of the time, at least he’s put in a huge effort to try to get the traitors out and I thought he defended himself really well in this episode.

I did want Stephen to win or Rachel (but I don’t think she can now) - but I didn’t like how Stephen went totally against her the very next day whereas we didn’t see Rachel do that at all. It wasn’t nice to see even though I know it’s part of the game. Could just have been the editing but Rachel has played quite a fair game I think when it comes to Stephen and the promise they made.

It was a really bad idea for them.to kill Roxy.

Even on her way out she said she wanted Stephen and rachel to win.

They got rid of her and kept in Faraaz who would vote against her.

It was a big mistake voting out Roxy.

Another great episode! Really looking forward to the final now. I didn’t like Rachel at all to start with, but I’ve warmed to her now and hope she got the shield. Realistically I don’t think she’s likely to win, but I think she deserves to be in the final - especially as after the Fiona showdown we were all saying on here that we couldn’t see any of these traitors making it to the final, and that we would be likely to have all new traitors in the final! To survive all that was impressive.

i think I’d like to see a Traitors win, especially if it’s both of them.

I was gutted we didn’t see Roxy’s reaction, it was the only reason I watched Uncloaked! But realised quite quickly that it was so they didn’t reveal who was banished (to the person the said it must be Rachel because if James they could edit him out and you’d hear her saying “Rachel” I don’t think they would as that would also give away who went - so it makes sense that they left it).

I was disappointed in Stephen throwing shit Rachel’s way all day, but glad he didn’t vote for her and did make sure he also put James in his conversations earlier.

Roll on tomorrow night!

Just caught up.

The producers are fucking sadistic.

The round table questions between Stephen and Rachel felt planned tonight. It gave Rachel a chance to align herself with Harriet, who they know was a faithful, and gave Stephen a chance to give a defence about why he wasn’t murdered in the cage. I wonder if there is a conversation between them that we didn’t see where they work out where their weakest points are that they need to resolve to have a chance of winning.

She reminded me of a clown.

I wonder if that’s why they did it, as otherwise killing Roxy made no sense. They both seem to be decent people so would be hard to take money from Roxy in the end game but the rest would be fair enough!