{"id":222979,"date":"2026-01-02T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222979\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:25:10","slug":"a-new-series-of-the-traitors-begins-with-a-delicious-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222979\/","title":{"rendered":"A new series of The Traitors begins &#8211; with a delicious twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judy and Roxy are mother and daughter, but the others don&#8217;t know yetpublished at 21:00 GMT 1 January<\/p>\n<p>21:00 GMT 1 January<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/415d0e13-bd90-4790-a7cc-26a0519e8346.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Steven McIntosh<br \/>Entertainment reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roxy and Judy pictured in front of Ardross Castle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/46741342-e33c-487e-95d8-0de779d45728.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"549\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bit more now on Roxy and Judy &#8211; after it\u2019s just been revealed that they are mother and daughter (not that the other players know it yet).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Executive producer Mike Cotton told journalists last month that, unlike the celebrity spin-off: &#8220;One of the great things about the regular version is the contestants can come in with secrets, whether that&#8217;s about their lives or secret relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re keeping our fingers crossed for a big dramatic reveal to the other contestants later in the series, on the same level as Diane&#8217;s iconic line in series two: &#8220;Paul just couldn&#8217;t be my son&#8230; but Ross is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked how producers decide when to reveal the relationship to other players and viewers, Cotton said: \u201cWe never know when we&#8217;re going to deploy it. When we&#8217;re going into filming, we go in, wait to see how it plays out, and decide whether we want to reveal that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judy and Roxy are mother and daughter, but the others don&#8217;t know yetpublished at 21:00 GMT 1 January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-222979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}