We’ll Meet You At The Fire Pit | Traitors 2026 | Thread 13 | THERE WILL BE SPOILERS

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Thread to continue discussions of Traitors 2026 (UK Version)

If you haven’t seen the Final of this year’s Traitors then stop right there and get yourself over to iPlayer.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Players, the floor is yours…

Yes - still think that was a horrible thing to do, to use Molly like that and let her down, and then not keep your word afterwards.

Minah is doing "regular" supply teacher presenting on radio 1. She's pretty much a natural at it, I like listening to her.

They will certainly get some appearance money following this, if they chose to. I also wondered if Rachel would get headhunted - she displayed very desirable skills in the show for a comms lead - I'd hire her in a shot.

I've seen a couple on panel show type programmes - Alexander was on Celebrity Mastermind recently (and has his radio programme) and I've seen Wilf on Would I Lie to You. Mina does some One Show reporting.

As many of hte contestants are on SM, especially threads an TicTok with now large followings, they will make money from the creator fund there...

Harry and Paul have a podcast that’s quite popular

I agree that she was completely focused on winning. Many of the others were there to make friends or enjoy the experience as well. She did an amazing job, Stephen was good at the logistics of it, remembering who had voted for who and that kind of thing, but she kept him focused.

I thought it was interesting on Uncloaked when she said that she only made one promise and that was the one to Stephen.

Yeah he mentioned it frequently that he hadn’t been totally sure

I think we would have all had a wobble. He trusted Rachel to not vote for him, but had he had the chance to win twice as much money if he voted for her.

Totally. Rachel and Stephen had all the knowledge (about everyone's status) and the other had none.

Rachel never had a wobble!!! (About Stephen)

45K doesn't make you rich but whatever (well maybe in her neck of the woods it does)

Sound alike she meant in context of the game

She can't cry. It's not in her.

The way she looked at Ellie when she was about to try. She despised her.

Absolutely agree, it really does come across as someone who stayed true to their own values.

It can go along way to making your life more comfortable. I expect it's probably close to her annual salary, and I think winnings like this are tax free (although I might be wrong in that).

Thank you @CaveMum for these threads, must have been such a lot of work to keep on top of it all and I’ve really enjoyed reading them.

I am so happy with the result. I totally fell for the edit and got scared Stephen would write Rachel’s name on his slate but deep down I knew he wouldn’t. He was clearly fighting his conscience the whole way through as a traitor and someone who says thank you to a hand sticking out of the ground giving him money and says to Claudia “oh my goodness is that person ok?!” is just lovely in my opinion!

Rachel was a formidable traitor and definitely had the upper hand at many stages of the game when things weren’t looking good for Stephen and she stuck by him. I do think this served her purpose in the game too because if he’d been banished she would have had to recruit someone else who might not have been such a team player.

Jade and Jack made the Molly mistake of trusting a traitor implicitly just because they liked them as a person. Faraaz did not have the courage of his convictions and was just not strategic enough.

Rachel, Stephen and Jack were on BBC Breakfast this morning and I had to laugh when Jack said he would invite them both to his wedding and Rachel said “I’m actually a celebrant so I can marry you if you like” and Jack was like “Really?!” She just laughed and said “No!” It was just proof that she can say anything and people will believe her and that is the main reason she did so well in my opinion.

It was, I loved it!

She didn’t have the chances he had - not at the right stage of the game.

She's really making a go of it and I'm delighted for her. I think she has only very recently just given up her 'day' job. There are opportunities for previous contestants but they don't just fall in people's laps, it takes aptitude and hardwork to make the most of what comes your way.

I’m talking about when it was down to the final three. She knew that Jack would vote for her and not Stephen. She had no choice really but to vote for Jack. Stephen had the choice. If he voted for Rachel they could end the game and he would take all the money. That would make any of us stop to think.

Stephen’s socials are incredibly well put together - either keg/his partner have a natural aptitude for photography and content creation or he’s getting some professional help (maybe both?) which suggests some kind of future with a public profile. He’d get work in style/fashion even if it’s just a content creator.

I actually thought Sam was the natural one for a media career, he was just very good on Uncloaked and has the looks for it. I don’t know if he’ll have a big enough post-show profile but maybe it could jump-start a career if he wanted one.

I disagree - she could have thrown him
Under the bus loads of times - she would have only had to buy in to one of the stories going round and her influence would have spoken big

Whom ever said Rachel can’t cry - didn’t she get upset a few times - one of which was when Amanda went

i am aghast at the double standards compared to Stephen!

if she was stephen she would have been abhorred for the scheming he did and in the firing line for discussing her among players

so sad - she’s a great women and credit to our sex! For me she had the right level of empathy for a game about deceit and pretending

To be fair the was never a strategic advantage for her to throw him under the bus - earlier in the game she’d have been forced to recruit, and by the end game he didn’t have the heat on him.

Whether loyalty might have stopped her is another issue, but it never made sense for her to have done it.