The Paudfather sleeps with the fishes. After becoming the breakout star of The Traitors Ireland (RT\u00c9 One, 9.35pm) and very briefly the country\u2019s favourite grumpy old man, Paudie has been outed as a traitor \u2013 and sent marching. <\/p>\n
The round table ranks as one of the most suspenseful yet, as traitors Paudie and Nick knife each other in the back, and also the front and sides. As the blows fall, the other contestants struggle to decide whether Paudie or Vanessa is the most suspicious. That leaves Nick the only remaining traitor \u2013 and gives him the choice of recruiting his bromantic bestie Ben or plotting his downfall. We will find out on Sunday. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a thrilling conclusion to a bizarre episode that features a recreation of a famine funeral \u2013 with three open coffins housing Christine (shocked), Ben (worried), and Faye (sobbing like an Oscar winner), while rural types in flat-caps \u2013 potentially the 2 Johnnies and friends doing a nixer \u2013 scoff sandwiches and hug their shawls. <\/p>\n
This is by way of revealing that someone \u2013 ie Nick and Paudie \u2013 placed a piseog on Christine the previous night, meaning she\u2019s the one who finally has a coffin lid placed over her. You haven\u2019t seen a Cork person freeze like this since the second half of the All-Ireland final. <\/p>\n
Back at the castle, Faye\u2019s tears have convinced Ben, but leave some of the female participants unmoved. \u201cMen see tears, they see innocence,\u201d scoffs one. <\/p>\n
Faye is actually a faithful of course, and reacts sharply when at the round table it is suggested she\u2019s playing for some pity points. \u201cI\u2019m having a panic attack, you think it\u2019s an act,\u201d she says to Joanna. \u201cI don\u2019t think I need to explain myself in a coffin.\u201d <\/p>\n
Around they go until finally Vanessa names Paudie as her number one suspect, and Nick weighs in behind her, as do Oyin and Ben. Paudie is gone – though not before dropping the bombshell that the previously eliminated Traitor Andrew was his son. <\/p>\n
The Traitors enters its final week on Sunday with Nick surely in pole position. But will viewers have the will to continue without Paudie? Joanna will certainly miss him. \u201cI\u2019m the only one who doesn\u2019t have an alliance,\u201d she confides to Paudie over tea \u2013 explaining that she feels excluded by the other female contestants. \u201cThey are so young.\u201d <\/p>\n