The Traitors US season 3: Who’s been murdered or banished from Alan Cumming’s castle
21 contestants entered the castle for a chance to win the cash prize of up to $250,000
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Season three of the American version of Britain’s hit reality game show, The Traitors, has officially commenced.
The Peacock series brings together a group of 21 contestants to a Scottish castle, where returning host Alan Cumming is presiding over a series of missions with the overall objective being to earn a cash prize of up to $250,000.
“Hidden amongst the Faithful are the Traitors, whose goal is to eliminate the Faithful and claim the prize for themselves,” an official synopsis reads.
“Under the cover of darkness, the Traitors murder the Faithful one by one in a treacherous spree, while the Faithful try to uncover the Traitors and banish them from the game. If the Faithful contestants banish all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund, but if a Traitor or Traitors makes it to the end, they will steal all the money.”
The special three-episode premiere of The Traitors season three arrived on Peacock on January 9 at 9 p.m ET/6 p.m. PT. Episodes will be released weekly on Thursdays hereafter. The season finale will air on March 6.
Find out who’s been murdered and banished below.
This list will be updated weekly.
Episode 1: No eliminations
While no official eliminations were made in the first episode, the drama kicked off immediately when Survivor alum Rob Mariano was exiled before the game had even begun.
Right after the contestants — made up of a retired wrestler, a British royal and a slew of reality TV stars — arrived at the castle, Cumming put them to their first test.
Introducing a cloaked and masked Mariano, Cumming gave the group the opportunity to welcome the six-time Survivalist into the game if they decided to substitute him for one of the players among them.
While several contestants considered the option, Mariano was ultimately turned away.
Everyone was then seated blindfolded around a table where Cumming picked out three Traitors: Danielle Reyes (Big Brother), Carolyn Wiger (Survivor) and Bob The Drag Queen (RuPaul’s Drag Race).
Meanwhile, in the final minutes of the episode, he was welcomed by Cumming to join the game as a Traitor.
Episode 2: Dorinda Medley (murdered) and Wells Adams (banished)
In addition to Mariano, two new players were welcomed into the game: retired The Challenge contestant Wes Bergmann and season 16 Big Brother winner Derrick Levasseur.
At the Traitor’s first late-night meeting, they decided to “murder” former Real Housewives of New York City star Dorinda Medley in an attempt to create confusion and throw the rest of the house off their scent. However, their ruthless decision seemed to infuriate viewers, who called it a “misstep.”
Later on, during the show’s first roundtable, several names were thrown around as potential Traitors, including the Bachelor franchise’s Wells Adams, The Real Housewives of Potamic alum Robyn Dixon and British royal Lord Ivar Mountbatten.
In the end, it was the Faithful Adams who secured the most votes leading to his banishment from the game.
Episode 3: Chanel Ayan (murdered) and Tony Vlachos (banished)
During the Traitors’ second late-night convention, the trio finally met their fourth addition — Mariano. The quartet chose to continue down the path of chaos by targeting the Housewives stars.
In a behind-the-scenes camera interview, Survivor legend Tony Vlauchos revealed that he was granted a shield from Mariano.
However, the shield didn’t end up saving Vlauchos at the second round table when all fingers were wrongly pointed at him. He at least got to shock and disgrace everyone when he tearfully revealed that he was indeed a Faithful.
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