{"id":238742,"date":"2026-01-11T01:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:37:10","slug":"second-traitor-banished-as-tense-row-comes-to-a-head-in-the-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/238742\/","title":{"rendered":"Second traitor banished as tense row comes to a head in The Traitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second traitor has been banished from the castle on The Traitors after an explosive episode saw a row come to a head.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, local government officer Fiona received the most votes from her fellow contestants after a tense roundtable led by teammate Rachel.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old went to war with fellow traitor Rachel on Thursday night when she told contestants she believed she was among the plotting group of murderers.<\/p>\n

As Fiona left the show, she told contestants: \u201cI want to say I haven\u2019t had the opportunity to grow to love you, but I do like you very, very much.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came in here to prove that women of a certain age should be listened to, and I feel as if I\u2019ve been listened to. Thank you all for being wonderful, wonderful people. I will never, ever forget you.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may be very surprised to hear that I am a traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheFiona became the second traitor to be banished from the hit BBC show (BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Euan Cherry\/PA)<\/p>\n

When she revealed her identity, the roundtable cheered. The contestants were also told there would be no murder on the night.<\/p>\n

During a confessional, crime writer Harriet said: \u201cI think Fiona has been well and truly hung out to dry by Rachel. I feel that was a question of traitor on traitor tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cRachel is my number one suspect, and the person I will be keeping my eye on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The episode opened with head of communications Rachel accusing Fiona of \u201cthrowing a grenade\u201d into the team of traitors, comprised of the two and cyber security consultant Stephen.<\/p>\n

\"TheRachel and Fiona had been arguing since Thursday night\u2019s episode (Cody Burridge\/BBC\/PA)<\/p>\n

Fiona said: \u201cYou\u2019re probably wondering, Rachel, why I\u2019ve put your name out there with everybody, and it\u2019s simple really.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe you are playing a game for yourself. And I thought we were in this as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the reason I\u2019m saying that is because Stephen\u2019s name has been thrown around the castle today. I have not heard you defend him in any shape or form.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen, 32, said he was \u201cabsolutely speechless\u201d at the altercation on Thursday night, which he described as \u201cso over-the-top\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"TheMatthew used his second question to ask the traitors if they would recruit him (BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Euan Cherry\/PA)<\/p>\n

The episode also saw three contestants win the opportunity to speak to the traitors and ask them two questions during the day\u2019s challenge, with Harriet, creative director Matthew and traitor Rachel winning the prize.<\/p>\n

The dramatic episode ended on a cliff-hanger after Matthew, 35, used his second question to ask the traitors if they would recruit him.<\/p>\n

The episode also saw sweet shop assistant Reece revealed as the traitors\u2019 fourth murder victim.<\/p>\n

He was chosen out of eight potential contestants after Thursday\u2019s challenge forced players to put others\u2019 names forward to be eligible for the traitors\u2019 next kill.<\/p>\n

\"TheReece was the fourth contestant to be killed (Cody Burridge\/BBC\/PA)<\/p>\n

When he found out he had been killed off, the 27-year-old said: \u201cRight as I thought people were starting to believe me. This will clear me though.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the traitors, I trust my faithful and just know they absolutely will get you. There\u2019s some smart brains there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Maura<\/p>\n

Entertainment<\/p>\n

Maura Higgins hopes to kill players \u2018one by one\u2019 in US version of The Traitors<\/p>\n

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Before the murder, Rachel said she wanted to choose Reece as a \u201cmercy killing\u201d.<\/p>\n

He had broken down in tears during Thursday night\u2019s episode after an emotional roundtable, where he was accused of being a traitor.<\/p>\n

The Traitors continues on BBC One and iPlayer on January 14th at 8pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second traitor has been banished from the castle on The Traitors after an explosive episode saw a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-238742","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\/238742","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=238742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}