{"id":129111,"date":"2025-10-18T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:07:10","slug":"irish-actor-ruth-codd-murdered-in-celebrity-traitors-after-taking-aim-at-jonathan-ross-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129111\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish actor Ruth Codd \u2018murdered\u2019 in Celebrity Traitors after taking aim at Jonathan Ross \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget the Paudfather \u2013 say hello to the Coddfather. BBC\u2019s Celebrity Traitors has witnessed an explosive performance by Co Wexford actor Ruth Codd. Not since Paudie \u201cPaudfather\u201d Moloney on The Traitors Ireland \u2013 okay, that was just a few weeks ago \u2013 has a contestant captured the imagination, and all thanks to her steel-trap mind that allowed her to sniff out the doubletalk by traitor Jonathan Ross, the veteran broadcaster and talk show host.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was ready and determined to always voice my opinion. I knew it was probably going to get me murdered,\u201d says The Fall of the House of Usher star in an interview published after Ross and his fellow Traitors murdered her \u2013 a hit job that followed Ross correctly discerning that Codd had him rumbled as a figurative snake in the grass. <\/p>\n

Codd, who grew up on a farm near Ferrycarrig, is well aware that she is a relative newcomer to showbusiness \u2013 she was a make-up artist and barber before losing her job during the Covid pandemic, at which point she started posting videos to TikTok, where she gained 600,000 followers. But she felt that impresario Ross was misleading the other contestants by denying that he had offered to ally with Ruth and sports presenter Clare Balding when they were in a car together. She didn\u2019t go quietly either \u2013 squaring up to Ross at the second round table. <\/p>\n

She was aware there was an imbalance of power. She wasn\u2019t simply confronting another contestant, but an icon of British light entertainment. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was scary, I knew nobody really in there knows who I am and everybody knows who he is,\u201d she says in an interview on the BBC\u2019s Celebrity Traitors Uncloaked broadcast. \u201cI knew I wasn\u2019t going to get that much back-up. On a scale of one to 10, how much of a Jonathan-shaped hill are we willing to die on here? … It turns out it was a 10 … a big fat 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

Codd\u2019s no-nonsense performance has made her a hero among Traitors watchers, and the expectation is that her career will now move up several gears. \u201cRuth Codd should be the next Doctor Who,\u201d declared one showbusiness social media account. Others suggested that she should be Ireland\u2019s next president. <\/p>\n

The Traitors may have made her famous, but Codd\u2019s journey to the screen has had its challenges. Six years ago, she had her right leg amputated due to complications arising from a broken foot she sustained playing soccer at age 15. <\/p>\n

\u201cI literally just fell playing soccer,\u201d she told the Sunday World in 2022. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t treated correctly so I was just unlucky.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was never said, \u2018Oh it\u2019s not going to heal,\u2019 so I was just kind of going through the motions and hoping that this would be the operation that works. So after about a year or two I was like, \u2018I\u2019m probably going to be using these crutches for a long time.\u2019 It\u2019s really hard to drag yourself around. I went to a convent school as well, so there was stairs everywhere. It was tough.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0The Celebrity Traitors is clearly ripped off from Traitors Ireland: A Nation Once AgainOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so stubborn I wouldn\u2019t let anyone help me. It was just a little bit harder for me. But I still went to school, and went to college. I did as much as I could with what I had, type of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

She had to adjust to her prosthetic leg and it wasn\u2019t always easy, she said in the same interview. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m positive about it now and I wouldn\u2019t go back and change it. But when it first happened, I was not okay with it at all. When you are a teenager you kind of think you are unstoppable, and sometimes life could not work out the way you wanted to just because you want it to work that way, so I think I had to grow up very quickly and deal with a lot of things kids shouldn\u2019t have to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\" The Celebrity Traitors: Tom Daley, Cat Burns, Ruth Codd, Claire Balding, Niko Omilana, David Olusoga, Jonathan Ross, Celia Imrie, Claudia Winkleman, Mark Bonnar, Nick Mohammed, Charlotte Church, Tameka Empson, Lucy Beaumont, Alan Carr, Joe Mahler, Stephen Fry and, in front, Paloma Faith, Joe Wilkinson and Kate Garraway. Photograph: Cody Burridge\/BBC\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

She was delighted to have the opportunity to portray characters with a disability on screen. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t get a lot of disabled representation in media nowadays. A lot of times, we\u2019re forgotten about,\u201d she told Teen Vogue in 2022, after she was cast in Netflix horror series The Midnight Club, about a group of terminally ill teenagers who meet in a hospice. \u201cA lot of times, we\u2019re forgotten about. When we are represented, we\u2019re either this kind of saintly little thing that didn\u2019t deserve for this to happen to her, or you\u2019re portrayed as bitter.\u201d<\/p>\n

She went into The Celebrity Traitors planning to stay below the radar and to let bigger personalities \u2013 such as Ross, Stephen Fry<\/a> and Charlotte Church<\/a> \u2013 take the spotlight and fall under suspicion. But when she felt that Ross was conspiring behind people\u2019s backs, she spoke out. They went head-to-head at the second round table, which motivated Ross to \u2018kill\u2019. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0RT\u00c9\u2019s twisty new soap opera stars Ray D\u2019Arcy and, now, Brendan CourtneyOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a plethora of tactics going in,\u201d she says on Traitors Uncloaked. \u201cI thought I\u2019d play it quiet and then coast my way through and not get too mouthy. But again it\u2019s me … Round table number two: running my mouth off left, right and centre …\u201d<\/p>\n

Did she learn anything from her time on The Celebrity Traitors? <\/p>\n

\u201cI think I learned maybe to be a bit easier on myself. I always thought I was quite unknowable and unpopular,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a really nice feeling to be part of a group. I went into it sort of expecting all different things. I thought the fitness thing might be a challenge, but I think that I mainly learned that \u2013 or confirmed that \u2013 I have my own mind, and I can stand my ground. When there are other people that are much further along in the business and much older than you, you do have to find your voice. It kind of bamboozled me a bit when some of them weren\u2019t speaking up, but I\u2019m glad I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a long history of British reality television making stars out of Irish contestants \u2013 from Anna Nolan<\/a> on Big Brother to Niall Horan<\/a> with The X Factor. Codd\u2019s situation is different because she already has a fan base due to her work with horror guru Mike Flanagan for Netflix. She is due to appear opposite Aisling Bea in the forthcoming Dublin-set Marian Keyes drama Grown Ups \u2013 and judging by the response to her appearance on The Celebrity Traitors, even bigger things surely lie ahead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forget the Paudfather \u2013 say hello to the Coddfather. BBC\u2019s Celebrity Traitors has witnessed an explosive performance by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[3412,18,117,19,17,13130,53332,1294],"class_list":{"0":"post-129111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-niall-horan","14":"tag-stephen-fry","15":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}