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The Traitors is thought for being essentially the most misleading present on tv – and members are examined lengthy earlier than getting in entrance of the cameras.
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the collection follows a bunch dwelling in a fort within the Scottish Highlands. Amongst them are quite a lot of “Traitors”, who conspire to eradicate others with out being detected.
Collection two finalist Jaz Singh has revealed the pre-show course of hopeful members bear by the hands of BBC producers and likened the expertise to a “recreation earlier than the sport”.
Chatting with The Sun, 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 searching for Mancunians.
The appliance, which took the TV star roughly two hours and included questions corresponding to “what’s your greatest worry?” and “what’s your greatest lie?”, shortly led to an e mail from The Traitors producers.
“I went via 100 Zooms, 100 auditions,” Singh stated, admitting he initially thought your entire software course of should be a rip-off as a consequence of its elaborate nature.
Two weeks previous to filming, producers advised Singh his software had been profitable. Nonetheless, he nonetheless confronted his greatest problem – not breaking his NDA about his involvement within the present.
“It’s a must to get a ton of stuff ready, the way you’re going to ship this info to varied members of the family to maintain this a secret, since you’re below an NDA, and they’ll sue you for a whole bunch of 1000’s 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 ultimately, it’s mind-blowing,” Singh added.
“You might be taking part in the sport earlier than you even enter that fort, earlier than you even get a faucet on the shoulder, earlier than you place them blindfolds on, earlier than Claudia says ‘hi there’.”
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On Wednesday (22 January), suspicions on The Traitors will enter an all-time excessive as the sport enters its closing quarter earlier than concluding on Friday, 24 January.
Final week, viewers questioned Minah’s resolution making after she recruited Charlotte as the most recent traitor after voting off her fellow Traitor, Linda.
Choosing Charlotte as a alternative – who’s pretend Welsh accent viewers describe as “essentially the most pointless factor ever about this collection of The Traitors” – Minah got here below fireplace by followers who assume she made a “large mistake”.
Followers took to X/Twitter to specific their frustration, with one consumer 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.
