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<\/p>\nThis article contains spoilers for last night\u2019s episode of BBC\u2019s The Traitors\n<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s instalment of the hit BBC One show saw local government officer Fiona go to war with fellow traitor Rachel who she accused of \u201clying\u201d to players and \u201cplaying a blinder\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Traitors has so far seen three faithfuls murdered with four players banished, including Hugo, who was a traitor.<\/p>\n
If Fiona, 62, convinces her fellow players that Rachel is a traitor then she could become the second traitor to be banished.<\/p>\n
During Thursday\u2019s episode, Rachel, 42, announced to the group that banished faithful Amanda had confided in her and told her she was a former police detective prior to her departure.<\/p>\n
Rachel told the players: \u201cAmanda trusted me with a secret before she left.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the reason why she was trying to help people is because she knows what she\u2019s doing and she\u2019s actually a former detective.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s trained, highly trained, in body language, and she didn\u2019t tell anyone else in the castle.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a confessional Fiona said: \u201cI\u2019m not sure what narrative Rachel is peddling. I am flummoxed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Amanda and Rachel (BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Euan Cherry\/PA)<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI think Rachel is lying about Amanda.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was gleefully telling people, \u2018Amanda said, to me, I trust you explicitly. I know you\u2019re a faithful\u2019. She\u2019s playing a blinder, and I don\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fiona told crime author Harriet Tyce that she believes Amanda would have told her she was a former police detective as her husband and brother are both serving police officers.<\/p>\n
She also expressed her disbelief to Rachel in private and said: \u201cI am really suspicious of you. I question why she would have told you.\u201d<\/p>\n
In front of the faithfuls and her fellow traitors, Rachel and Stephen, Fiona said: \u201cI believe Rachel is a traitor, and I also believe that Amanda did not confide in Rachel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amanda had been banished from the show after presenter Claudia Winkleman brought out the \u201cchest of chance\u201d and told Reece and Amanda that the player who selected the chest with a shield in it would get to stay.<\/p>\n
Players are usually eliminated following a round of voting but the 57-year-old from Brighton had received the same amount of votes as sweet shop assistant Reece across two rounds of voting.<\/p>\n
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Amanda and Maz on The Traitors: Uncloaked (BBC\/Listen Entertainment\/James Green\/PA)<\/p>\n
As she left she told contestants: \u201cRemember everything that I\u2019ve said today, and most importantly, my house is your house, anytime\u2026 I\u2019m a faithful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having predicted her exit Amanda, who had been keeping her former job a secret, told Rachel: \u201cI was a senior detective in the Metropolitan Police, so I\u2019m very adept at covert policing. That was my job.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a confessional, Rachel said: \u201cI think it really helps my case. So I\u2019m trying to kind of figure out how to let this roll out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier in Thursday\u2019s episode civil servant Maz became the third faithful killed in a murder in plain sight.<\/p>\n
Upon discovering the identity of the traitors, he said: \u201cI would have believed you were a traitor (pointing at Stephen), but you two, (pointing at Rachel and Fiona), you let me down badly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Traitors airs at 8pm on BBC One on Friday.<\/p>\n
Among those reacting to the dramatic episode was BBC Northern Ireland weatherman Barra Best who wrote: \u201cOne of the best episodes of The Traitors I\u2019ve ever watched.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding to the weatherman herself on Instagram, Rachel wrote: \u201cCheers Barra I like watching you too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article contains spoilers for last night\u2019s episode of BBC\u2019s The Traitors Thursday\u2019s instalment of the hit BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,898,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-236001","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-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236001","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=236001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}