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The Traitors is understood for being essentially the most misleading present on tv – and individuals are examined lengthy earlier than getting in entrance of the cameras.
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the collection follows a bunch dwelling in a fortress within the Scottish Highlands. Amongst them are plenty of “Traitors”, who conspire to remove others with out being detected.
Sequence two finalist Jaz Singh has revealed the pre-show course of hopeful individuals bear by the hands of BBC producers and likened the expertise to a “sport earlier than the sport”.
Talking to The Solar, Singh detailed how he had been inspired to use for the present by his father after seeing an advert on Instagram saying the collection was on the lookout for Mancunians.
The appliance, which took the TV star roughly two hours and included questions equivalent to “what’s your largest concern?” and “what’s your largest lie?”, rapidly led to an e-mail from The Traitors producers.
“I went by way of 100 Zooms, 100 auditions,” Singh mentioned, admitting he initially thought your entire utility course of have to be a rip-off resulting from its elaborate nature.
Two weeks previous to filming, producers advised Singh his utility had been profitable. Nevertheless, he nonetheless confronted his largest problem – not breaking his NDA about his involvement within the present.
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“It’s a must to get a ton of stuff ready, the way you’re going to ship this data to numerous members of the family to maintain this a secret, since you’re beneath an NDA, and they’ll sue you for a whole bunch of hundreds of kilos of TV damages if this will get leaked,” he revealed.
“So it’s such a tactful course of, after which to get on finally, it’s mind-blowing,” Singh added.
“You might be taking part in the sport earlier than you even enter that fortress, earlier than you even get a faucet on the shoulder, earlier than you set them blindfolds on, earlier than Claudia says ‘howdy’.”
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On Wednesday (22 January), suspicions on The Traitors will enter an all-time excessive as the sport enters its last quarter earlier than concluding on Friday, 24 January.
Final week, viewers questioned Minah’s choice making after she recruited Charlotte as the latest traitor after voting off her fellow Traitor, Linda.
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Choosing Charlotte as a substitute – who’s faux Welsh accent viewers describe as “essentially the most pointless factor ever about this collection of The Traitors” – Minah got here beneath hearth by followers who suppose she made a “large mistake”.
Followers took to X/Twitter to specific their frustration, with one person writing: “Minah has fumbled the bag on this one. Jake was the one option to recruit actually. No traitor would throw suspicion on a fellow traitor from day one like he did with Linda #TheTraitorsUK.”
The Traitors airs on BBC One at 9pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
