How we got hooked on The Traitors
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:08.1 | Today, The Secrets to the Traitors' success. |
| 0:18.0 | Quick warning before we start, this episode contains spoilers for the current series of The Traitors. |
| 0:23.2 | So if you aren't caught up, perhaps save this for when you have. |
| 0:29.8 | We'd had a round table, it had been quite emotional. |
| 0:32.6 | So we'd all gone to the bar and basically Miles had been tasked with handing me a poison chalice. |
| 0:39.1 | If you're one of the few people in the UK who has not been glued to the traitors |
| 0:43.0 | since it hit our screens on the BBC in 2022, then everything you have just heard will have made |
| 0:49.0 | absolutely no sense at all. But stick with us. |
| 0:57.3 | And basically, Miles got me by saying, I don't drink. |
| 0:59.4 | Fizzy Rose, I had called it. |
| 1:00.6 | And he said, do you want it? |
| 1:02.2 | And of course I'm going to. |
| 1:04.1 | I mean, my God, I'm from Ireland. |
| 1:06.9 | I don't mind a wee glass of Fizz. |
| 1:11.2 | Anyway, then the next morning we all turn up for breakfast. and we're told that somebody has been poisoned in plain sight. |
| 1:16.0 | If, however, you are one of the traitors' many millions of fans, |
| 1:20.4 | this Ulster accent will need no introduction. |
| 1:23.0 | It's bona fide traitors legend Diane from series two. |
| 1:27.3 | She, of course, was secretly murdered with a glass of Fizzy Rose by one of the traitors, Miles, |
| 1:33.7 | and then told to attend what turned out to be her own funeral where she was buried alive. |
| 1:39.1 | And then basically the coffin lid was smack down hard of the person who was murdered, and that was me. |
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