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There are few days more cruel than the early days on The Traitors. U.S. version, U.K. version, Australian, Polish, celebrity, non-celebrity, whatever: With little evidence and a pool of Faithfuls too big to manage, the investigations are frantic and sloppy, with the masses looking for evidence in any place they can find it and many an innocent player sent home. On the October 8 episode of Celebrity Traitors UK<\/a>, the Faithful sent home one of their own, Myha\u2019la, based mostly on the evidence of a wink she gave Traitor Richard E. Grant before voting for him at the previous night\u2019s roundtable. It was a harrowing moment of HBO-on-HBO violence with the charge led by The Last of Us (and Game of Thrones) alum Bella Ramsay, who rallied fellow Faithfuls against a teary-eyed Myha\u2019la. The Industry star had little in the way of self-defense when it came to justifying her sly, platonic wink as anything other than what it was.<\/p>\n In the aftermath of her elimination, however, Myha\u2019la defended her fellow Faithfuls in the Instagram comments section of her post commemorating her time<\/a> on the show after fans suggested that her elimination was, in fact, proof of the series\u2019 inherent bias and racism, with one commenter writing, \u201cUnfortunately you were banished because you are BLACK.\u201d \u201cI had this fear coming into the game, as I am a BIG fan<\/a> and also clocked right away how prevalent this is in this game,\u201d Myha\u2019la explained in her response. Black contestants are often eliminated in early rounds, as was the case in the first season of Celebrity Traitors UK as well as the currently airing season of The Traitors: New Blood<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s right, I\u2019m not saying racism doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d Myha\u2019la continued, \u201cbut I do have to defend my dear friends on this show who in no way consciously put bias on me because of my race. That\u2019s not a fair or complete assessment of what really happened in my case.\u201d<\/p>\n Part of what Myha\u2019la\u2019s wink signifies is how much Celebrity Traitors UK is about, well, being a celebrity. This is a part of the American celebrity version, to some degree, but part of why Grant\u2019s Traitor confession<\/a> threw the castle into such chaos was because it forced everyone to reckon with Grant\u2019s status as a celebrity. Would someone like Grant \u2014 esteemed, established, and Oscar-nominated as he is \u2014 really be so blatant as to just say that he\u2019s a Traitor? Surely it\u2019s a double bluff? Or a triple bluff? Or maybe he\u2019s just a dotty old man, whimsical and kooky but not deceitful, as has been his persona onscreen. That\u2019s part of what Myha\u2019la (as well as Joanna Page and others in the castle) fell for, and why she lent him the wink even as she voted for him. That kind of preexisting knowledge of a celebrity\u2019s persona and body of work outside the castle can actually kind of doom a player in the castle. She thought she was saying good-bye to a friend, but to everyone else, it looked like an admission of guilt. (Though per fellow Celebrity Traitors UK contestant Dr. Hannah Fry<\/a>, the social game is rarely indicative of much given both Faithful and Traitor alike \u201cbehave weird.\u201d)<\/p>\n A wink could just be a gentle gesture between newfound friends, or it could be a passing of the torch from devious Traitor to plotting prot\u00e9g\u00e9. Regardless, it sealed Myha\u2019la\u2019s fate and all but guaranteed no one on this show is ever going to wink at someone else ever again.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n