Jessie won many viewers’ hearts and contestants in the castle with her loyalty, good humour and bright red hair – but also her ability to observe the behaviour of others.
“I feel like having a stammer makes you a good listener and it kind of helps me to be able to just watch a little bit more,” she says.
“And I would just watch how Stephen was and how he’d act and I just had an instinct that it could be him.”
By the second week of the series, Jessie successfully identified that fellow contestant Stephen was a traitor after analysing numerous scenarios.
The hairdresser doesn’t feel her game was impacted by her stammer as the other contestants would be patient and allow her to speak her mind.
“It helped that the whole cast would just wait and were all just really kind about it,” she says.
“Yes, it would take me longer speech-wise because I would need more time to speak, but the whole cast let me have that, which did help a lot.”