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\n\t\tFiona committed a shocking act of Traitor on Traitor violence (Picture: BBC)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tFiona committed a shocking act of Traitor on Traitor violence (Picture: BBC)<\/p>\n
*Warning: spoilers ahead for the Traitors\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s nothing wrong with backing the wrong horse, but when the one you were rooting for<\/a> makes a mistake as erratic as Fiona\u2019s tonight, it\u2019s just unedifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yesterday\u2019s secret Traitor<\/a> reveal left me touting the 62-year-old as the second Alan Carr<\/a> coming: a whip-smart, tongue-in-cheek Traitor masquerading as a doddering biddie who can\u2019t remember who said what when and is primarily there for comic relief, not Machiavellian scheming.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just as quickly as she jumped to the frontrunner spot in the castle, she has set the entire place alight.<\/p>\n With Amanda banished and her secret identity as a detective divulged, Fiona decided Rachel had made up the copper backstory to wield influence. She then accused Rachel, in front of the entire cast crammed in the kitchen, of being a Traitor. Rachel tried to laugh the charge off, but in their turret, gave Fiona a stink eye that means war.\u00a0<\/p>\n From the moment Fiona removed her scarlet cloak to reveal that bouncing blonde head of hair, Rachel has looked ill at ease. Their tete-a-tetes were a crossfire of accusations: one wasn\u2019t a team player, the other couldn\u2019t be trusted. Ineffective Stephen looked on.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was clear trouble was ahead, but we could never have guessed how soon. In our second week of the series, Fiona\u2019s self-professed \u2018grenade\u2019 has exploded on the board game and made shrapnel out of all the pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t \t\t \t\t\t\tJoin Metro’s The Traitors community on WhatsApp\t\t\t<\/p>\n Want to get all the latest news and predictions for the best and most dramatic show this new year? Join our The Traitors WhatsApp channel<\/a> for live episode coverage, behind-the-scenes gossip and a place to recover from all the cliffhangers.<\/p>\n Simply click on this link<\/a><\/strong>, select \u2018Join Chat\u2019 and you\u2019re in! Don’t forget to turn on notifications!<\/p>\n It\u2019s marvellous telly, but there\u2019s no realm of possibility where the two strongest Traitors both emerge unscathed.<\/p>\n When this series began, the most trumpeted cast member<\/a> was real-life detective Amanda, whose stony-faced demeanour at the roundtable put viewers in mind of an AC-12 interrogation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In practice, her experience in clearly having to weigh everything up resulted in her hemming and hawing before just nominating Jade again.\u00a0<\/p>\n But revealing her former job to Rachel before being banished (on a coin toss against Reece!) lit the touchpaper between Fiona and her fellow Traitor.<\/p>\n Rachel should never have shared Amanda\u2019s secret with the group post-banishment, not because she could have predicted Fiona would stab her in the back, but because sticking your neck out in any way can just as easily backfire as bolster you.\u00a0<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t even make sense to reveal anything about a banished contestant \u2013 there\u2019s no use crying over spilt milk, or departed Faithfuls, after the fact. Roxy and Ellie knew enough to keep schtum about their late loved ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t But the real mortal sin is on Fiona\u2019s part, for a scene of Traitor on Traitor violence that will no doubt go down in the show\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n The murderous cabal is always betraying one another, particularly in later weeks once the herd has thinned and the paranoia sets in, but this move came when suspicion had barely troubled Fiona or Rachel. I can\u2019t think of a more spectacular unforced error.<\/p>\n Fans might have bemoaned the secret Traitor reveal coming too soon, but Fiona\u2019s behaviour shows its biggest drawback yet \u2013 going from omnipotent to almost powerless leaves her in serious danger.\u00a0<\/p>\n For days on end, she was the only player who could completely orchestrate the game, with near-total impunity. The secret Traitor was essentially a producer.<\/p>\n That power has been taken away, putting her on a level footing with the other Traitors, but Fiona\u2019s accusation that Rachel is donning the cloak has all the arrogance of someone who still thinks they\u2019re presiding from that elevated position.<\/p>\n \t\t If Fiona was still operating from the shadows, Stephen and Rachel\u2019s pact would likely have fallen to pieces when the real suspicion started to fall on either, which I say charitably, because it would definitely have been Stephen.\u00a0<\/p>\n That said, neither of them would have dared to do what Fiona has. There\u2019s no honour among Traitors and even less when one was once a secret Traitor.<\/p>\n \u2018This game has officially started,\u2019 Rachel said in response. Except, it hasn\u2019t, because Fiona\u2019s bold kitchen accusation that Rachel is a Traitor, knowing full well she is, will only result in their mutual demise.\u00a0<\/p>\n Suspicion can swing like a pendulum from one person to another on things far smaller than this argument. Although I\u2019m as giddy as anyone to see the pyrotechnics go off in that turret during tomorrow\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n What\u2019s even worse is that Stephen is probably on his way out too.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t He had one slip of the tongue at the roundtable yesterday, another at breakfast and has the constant ruddy hue of someone who\u2019s hiding something. What a disappointing batch of Traitors this series has provided so far.<\/p>\n The cast all wanted to be in the turret this series, but on the UK series it\u2019s most often been the Faithful who have won it. Harry Clark<\/a>\u2019s series two strategy proves that staying under the radar is key to clinching the cash as one of the green-cloaked baddies.\u00a0<\/p>\n Every Traitor this series has failed to strike the balance between stoking suspicion among others and avoiding it themselves.<\/p>\n But Fiona has blown things up by openly turning on one of her own for no apparent reason other than annoyance at not having been let in on the secret and \u2013 for the first time this series \u2013 being out of the loop.<\/p>\n The coming fisticuffs will certainly be good TV, even if it isn\u2019t good gameplay; maybe that\u2019s what Fiona wanted all along.<\/p>\n I backed her as the dark horse to become the frontrunner, but she\u2019s fallen at the first hurdle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Either way, she\u2019s thrown her grenade, and the fallout will be explosive.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tDo you think Fiona went to far?<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tWant to get bespoke updates on the TV shows you love? Sign up to Metro’s TV newsletters and tell us which ones you can’t get enough of<\/p>\n The Traitors continues on BBC One and iPlayer on January 7 at 8pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n Do you have a story you\u2019d like to share? Get in touch by emailing Ross.Mccafferty@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Share your views in the comments below.<\/strong><\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"Rachel](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SEI_280076310-0319.jpg\")
\n\t\tRachel\u2019s turret stink eye means war (Picture: BBC)<\/p>\n![\"TX](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SEI_280076036-d374.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe 62-year-old has set the castle alight with her accusation (Picture: BBC\/Studio Lambert)<\/p>\n![\"Rachel](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SEI_280076184-f3bb.jpg\")
\n\t\t\u2018This game has officially started,\u2019 Rachel said in response (Picture: BBC)<\/p>\n![\"TX](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SEI_279463021-dc66.jpg\")
\n\t\tStephen is probably on his way out too (Picture: BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Euan Cherry)<\/p>\n![\"TX](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SEI_279976930-c9b0.jpg\")
\n\t\tStephen and Rachel\u2019s pact would likely have fallen to pieces (Picture: BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Euan Cherry)<\/p>\n
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