The dreaded finish of The Traitors season 3 UK is quick approaching, and what a wild trip it’s been. So, what higher approach to have a good time the homestretch than by reliving one of the best instances?
Whereas there have been some meme-worthy clips in 2025, I can’t assist however replicate on how they evaluate to what occurred within the first two seasons. There are such a lot of that this checklist was troublesome to trim down (sorry Lisa, your priest reveal simply missed the lower).
These are essentially the most iconic moments from The Traitors, compiled by a superfan of the present. You may also learn up on when the ultimate episode airs, because it’s at a distinct time than normal and also you received’t need to miss it.
Diane’s funeral
In case you requested me to select one of the best episode of your complete present, that is it. Pure cinema. No notes.
Season 2’s peak begins the evening after Miles murders Diane by handing her the poisoned chalice of glowing rosé – with nice issue. Slightly than her dying as anticipated, the Traitor walks into breakfast, sees her sitting there and says “Hiiii!” with essentially the most panicked, manic grin you’ve ever seen in your life.
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What adopted was a full-blown funeral march, with a haunting choir, a shrine devoted to the murdered medium Tracey, and three gamers moving into coffins as everybody selected who they believed had been marked for loss of life. Then poor Ross needed to look on as his personal mum was ‘buried’. Discuss morbid.
After that, we had Traitors going at one another, with Paul and Miles arguing to the loss of life … or banishment, I suppose. On the sidelines, Harry masterfully instructed that each might be Traitors – a transfer that might repay for him later.
Tom’s girlfriend reveal
The primary ever secret partnership in The Traitors UK was between Tom and Alex, who determined to cover the truth that they have been in a romantic relationship to get additional within the competitors … or not less than, that was the plan.
Sadly, pink-haired Tom misplaced his cool when accusations that Alex was a Traitor surfaced at breakfast after she was placed on trial, resulting in him exploding on the different contestants and exclaiming that she was “straight up” his girlfriend, immediately dropping favour with virtually everybody within the fort.
He believed he was a genius, as his coaching as a magician allowed him to learn folks, particularly those that have been mendacity. However because the then ‘Mom’ of the collection Amanda identified, he can’t have been superb at his job, as a result of he didn’t handle to suss out one Traitor.
Including to all of the drama is poor, good-looking Matt, who was obliviously flirting with Alex as he believed she was single and able to mingle. Throughout Tom’s outburst, you possibly can hear Maddy saying to him, “I assumed you have been going to get with Alex?”. You may’t write this. Additional factors for Claudia’s humongous turtleneck.
Linda doing the naked minimal
It’s no actual secret that Linda was removed from a mastermind Traitor this season. And but, she by some means survived week after week, regardless of some terribly suss behaviour.
As quickly as Linda was picked, she turned to Claudia when she addressed the Traitors – one thing that didn’t go unnoticed by Jake. She would solely accuse others in the event that they went after her, not even bothering to attempt to sustain the pretence of looking down evil gamers with logical reasoning.
When she voted for Anna, she delivered the enduring line: “You don’t must be a sailor to know learn how to tie a rope… sorry”, which is essentially the most ridiculous cause to banish somebody and but once more one thing that the Devoted failed to select up on.
Mockingly, it was solely after she determined to place in some effort with an Oscar-worthy efficiency at breakfast, fake-crying over Liv’s homicide, that she appeared on everybody’s radars. However even then, it took two nights to catch her. By no means change, Linda.
“…however Ross is”
The twist to finish all twists was masterfully delivered by Dianne in season 2, who luggage two entries on this checklist.
We’ve had a couple of secret pairings going into the fort, and whereas two of them turned public data and in the end led to the contestants’ downfall, one was saved a secret within the fort, however cheekily revealed to us at house.
Throughout a speaking head interview, Dianne was laughing because the group speculated that she and Paul have been mom and son as they each have pink hair – however in fact, hers is dyed, and he’s far too tall.
She then drops the bombshell that her precise son is within the sport, but it surely’s Ross. The reveal is masterfully woven in with true crime-esque household footage of the pair as they’ve secret conversations in plain sight.
They saved up the ruse proper till the tip, with Ross sadly squandering his probability at revenge for his poor murdered mum when he was unwillingly recruited as a Traitor by Harry and Andrew and fed to the wolves.
Kieran’s parting reward
Whether or not you agree with this gameplay or not (and consider me, a few of my buddies nonetheless argue about it to at the present time), this was one of many pinnacles of season one, and it turned the competitors the other way up.
After betraying his fellow Traitors twice over, Wilf was seemingly closing in on stealing your complete prize pot for himself in season 1. He’d surrounded himself with individuals who trusted him, and was assured he may make it to the tip.
Nevertheless, the principles dictated that he should recruit. He selected Kieran, with the plan to throw him below the bus, as he’d carried out with Alyssa and Amanda. In fact, he didn’t account for his fellow Traitor taking him down with him. As he was voted off, he wrote Wilfred on the board, saying the ultimate cursed phrases, “parting reward”.
In the end, the Devoted realised one thing was amiss and caught the ultimate Traitor on the fireplace pit.
Charlotte’s Welsh accent
That is a kind of twists that made the UK collectively ask … however why, although?
Unique Devoted (and now Traitor) Charlotte determined, for no good cause in anyway, that she was going to speak in a Welsh accent for the whole lot of the sport.
In accordance with her, it’s to make her seem extra reliable. And honest play, as a result of many contestants left on the time of writing are calling her their “100% Devoted” – what share her accent performs in that is one other matter, however she’s maintaining the ruse.
Maybe among the best bed room edits from the producers was the clip of her studying a ebook to study Welsh. Actually unimaginable. Now we’re all eagerly awaiting the massive reveal of her true accent – maybe much more than her disclosing her new function as a Traitor.
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Maddy’s Eastenders saga
Maddy’s detective expertise in season one have been usually questionable. That mentioned, there’s little doubt that her reasoning and logic within the speaking heads was essentially the most entertaining.
When she entered the fort, she opted solely to reveal her function as a receptionist. Nevertheless, she finally revealed that she was additionally a working actress, with the function of a lifetime as a homeless girl on Eastenders.
When this data was revealed, Welsh (really Welsh, not faux) Queen Amanda managed to spin it to make Maddy appear untrustworthy within the group, which finally led to her unlucky banishment.
Regardless of her seemingly ditsy nature, she was the one one who had Wilfred pegged from the start, so who’s laughing now?
Paul’s downfall
Whereas he didn’t make it to the tip as a Traitor, Paul remains to be thought-about the largest villain the present has ever seen.
Previous to the competitors, he admitted he learn American Psycho to arrange himself for his new function, and it definitely confirmed. He managed to control virtually everybody round him, by some means weaselling his manner out of suspicion each week, regardless of all indicators pointing to him.
It appeared like he had everybody fooled … besides for 2 gamers. Jaz (or Jazatha Christie, as he was recognized) had Paul pegged from the beginning and wasn’t threatened by his unusual intimidation techniques. Then, in fact, there’s Harry.
Harry had already seen Paul throw Ash and Miles below the bus and determined to take his destiny into his personal arms. He led the cost in opposition to Paul, who by no means noticed it coming as he believed he was the true ringleader of the Traitors. He went out with a well-deserved bow because the gamers went nuts – infuriating as he was, he made wonderful telly.
The Dying Match
There’s nothing fairly like a shock sport in The Traitors, and after an terrible day getting gunged whereas Claudia sat on the shoulders of two large males in a showstopping fur coat, poor Alexander, Leon, Anna and Fozia needed to play for his or her lives, below the quilt of darkness.
Every took turns drawing a card, and whoever received the life card managed to remain alive … however there was just one within the deck.
The Dying Match was a mixture of luck and deception, with Claudia dealing the playing cards in some unimaginable skeleton-like make-up. After gracefully permitting Anna to stroll free, Fozia pulled the unsuitable playing cards, and for the primary time within the present got here face-to-face with The Traitors to be murdered.
Whereas Minah delivered the sentence menacingly, the funniest factor about this clip is that Fozia didn’t actually appear to know what the heck was happening. After she lastly accepted her destiny, she handed on the curse of banishment to Linda, who responded with an unimaginable “recover from it”, certifying her standing as a legend.
Harry’s final betrayal
If you wish to play the sport as a profitable Traitor, you simply want to take a look at how Harry received the £95,000 prize pot in season 2.
After unmasking the dastardly evil Paul and cementing his false id as a Devoted by pretending to get the defend, Harry managed to go virtually undetected. Solely Jazatha Christie was on the case. Sadly for him, Harry had saved his help community nearer than ever.
I’ll always remember the second that the nation collectively screamed at Mollie as she wrote down Harry’s identify, earlier than rubbing it out and writing poor Jaz’s as a substitute. In the end, she so deeply trusted her buddy and couldn’t consider he would misinform her like that.
It made the shot of him telling her, over the burning pit of fireplace, that he’d all the time been a Traitor all of the extra bitter … but good.