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…

I’m so happy they stayed true to each other.

rachel was the truest of them. But Stephen did the right thing in the end after a wobble.

love them both

Did he really wobble tho or was it just the editing?? I think she played a blinder to get Faraaz's support when James went out. Jack and Faraaz could have won if they had supported each other the way Stephen and Rachel did.

Thinking (out loud) through all your options, especially when your fellow traitor is under a lot of suspicion which will bring fallout on you, is not having a wobble.

On Uncloaked he basically said he wobbled. I can’t blame him, I would wobble too!

I liked all three- Harriet. Amanda and Rachel.

Fiona was annoying and really didn't know what she was doing . Completely unhinged. Though the episode she was voted out was entertaining.

It’s the fact that Jack and Faraz didn’t know each other’s status is what made that harder for them.

I agree.

I thought Stephen was just a decent human. I think he wobbled with Rachel near the end when he thought she was going to turn on him but ultimately he stuck with her and honoured their pact. If he’d voted Jack he would have got all the money but everyone would have hated him. Ultimately, as Claudia said, they remained faithful to each other. I did feel sorry for Jack though.

Absolutely.

Well done Rachel and Stephen. Lovely article about Rachel and her family.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje118e3yngo

Australia series one was epic!

US Traitors, for Alan Cummings and his dog Lala, alone. I much prefer it, even though it is celebrities and includes a lot of Real Housewives in the casts/

Just agreeing re skewed reporting.

Oooh, I heard Aus series 2 was very good, was going to watch that first.

Totally agree.

I think a lot of Rachel’s criticism comes from the fact that she came in with her in-it-to-win-it hat on and she never took it off once. She was always laser focused on the reasons why she was there - her family - and I think that’s why she never formed the same connections, she didn’t forget her core purpose in the way others did.

I don’t think that’s cold or ruthless, she knew what (or who) her long term priorities were - and obviously it’s not people she met mere days previously!

Agree.

I doubt that Rachel went in this to get any TV work. She played a brilliant game. I doubt she wants to be famous.
Stephen seems nice enough but the last thing we need IMHO is another camp TV presenter. I would definitely have voted for Rachel if I had been in Stephen's shoes, much as I admired Rachel I was disappointed he bottled out.
Maybe I'm a psychopath though as I definitely don't get emotional when being deceptive in games and someone upthread said this was psychopathic!
I also (realising I'm in the minority here) can't see anything attractive about Jade. Amanda didn't bully her, Jade just got really defensive like a sulky teenager and said that noone else has had such a hard time at round tables which is totally untrue.

The ending of Australia series 2 is the best ending ever.

I couldn't stand the US version, only got through one episode. I'm not sure if it carried on but in series 1 the tasks were all the same as UK series 1 making it even more boring.

Agreed!!! It’s bloody brilliant. My favourite ever contestant in any UK, US, NZ and Australian traitors is Nigel from Australia season 1. I ❤️ him.

I loved Nigel too.

One of my favourite tasks was in one of the Australian series - in order to get a shield, they simply had to swim to the centre of a lake to get it. It was fascinating to watch - some really went for it, some had a go and some just thought 'Nah, I've got no hope' and didn't even try!

Rachel is cool and competent, as is Stephen, but she has a nasty side that came up every now and then. Lacked human warmth throughout. Still she deserved to win. The faithfuls, with the only exception of Harriet and Jessie, were inept.

Have any former contestants actually made a living out of being on the show? I gather Harry's quite big on SM but I don't know if he makes a living out of it.

I think Mina presents and Alexander on classic fm - the person who was an interior designer - raised her profile a lot.

None of us know, only Rachel, so speculation is a bit pointless - all we do know is they made a pact never to write each other's names on the chalk baords, and they both had the integrity to stick to that. I think that would have been the case had the roles been reversed (and I am sure it that case the edit would have gently suggested Rachel was thinking of stealing, as it did with Stephen last night). Rachel did say on Uncloaked (I think in the part two bit) that she found it increasingly difficult and wanted to be softer and friendlier - but that would have given her away (as a change in behaviour, which is the classic 'clue' grasped at by the Faithful).