{"id":261411,"date":"2026-01-24T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261411\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:12:09","slug":"the-traitors-crowns-winners-in-tense-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261411\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors crowns winners in tense finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Treacherous duo Rachel and Stephen have won the 2026 series of The Traitors in a dramatic denouement.<\/p>\n

The two traitors remained faithful to each other in the endgame of the show, voting out all of the faithful players in turn to bag the prize pot.<\/p>\n

They split the prize pot of \u00a395,750 (\u20ac113,000), taking home \u00a347,875 each.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Stephen and Rahcel toast their win (BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Paul Chappells\/PA)<\/p>\n

Host Claudia Winkleman appeared emotional as she said: \u201cTwo traitors but totally faithful to each other. You did it. You absolutely did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As they celebrated their win, Stephen told Rachel: \u201cI\u2019ll be honest, I had moments where I was doubting what I was going to do tonight, but I couldn\u2019t go back on my word to you.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just wasn\u2019t worth the money and I couldn\u2019t have walked out of here by lying to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"cards<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI\u2019m just a wee boy from the Isle of Lewis, this kind of stuff doesn\u2019t really happen to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t the kind of money that me and my family deal with. It\u2019s going to make such a difference. And I just know they\u2019re going to be so proud.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/(BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Paul Chappells\/PA)<\/p>\n

Rachel said: \u201cIt\u2019s the best feeling in the world. I really thought it was such a big achievement to be the first female traitor to make it to the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then to win. I think it will be a very long time until you get the smile off my face.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to not having to lie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a lot, that\u2019s a lot of lying, so I\u2019m looking forward to just breathing and just making the nicest memories with my mom that I will remember forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treacherous duo Rachel and Stephen have won the 2026 series of The Traitors in a dramatic denouement. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-261411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261411","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=261411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}