{"id":424157,"date":"2026-01-19T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424157\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:38:08","slug":"traitors-star-jessie-on-a-high-after-raising-stammer-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424157\/","title":{"rendered":"Traitors star Jessie &#8216;on a high&#8217; after raising stammer awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jessie won many viewers&#8217; hearts and contestants in the castle with her loyalty, good humour and bright red hair &#8211; but also her ability to observe the behaviour of others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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,&#8221; she says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And I would just watch how Stephen was and how he&#8217;d act and I just had an instinct that it could be him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By the second week of the series, Jessie successfully identified that fellow contestant Stephen was a traitor after analysing numerous scenarios. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hairdresser doesn&#8217;t feel her game was impacted by her stammer as the other contestants would be patient and allow her to speak her mind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It helped that the whole cast would just wait and were all just really kind about it,&#8221; she says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessie won many viewers&#8217; hearts and contestants in the castle with her loyalty, good humour and bright red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-424157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}