AS MUCH AS we like to tell our young children that honesty is the best policy, it’s not always strictly true and nowhere is our love of a bit of smooth deception more evident than with hit TV show The Traitors.

I’m going to hold my hands up and confess that I am a superfan of this highly addictive show. I’ve been firmly on The Traitors train since it first dropped on the BBC in 2022, as a strange sort of November filler no one really knew about.

The show, which is based on a Dutch programme, is all about deception and lies. It was an instant hit and has since made its way to Irish screens, with the second series airing now on RTÉ One and hosted by the brilliant Siobhán McSweeney.

If you’ve not succumbed to its devilish charms yet, here’s how it works. It follows a group of contestants who are competing to win a cash prize, and each day they complete a series of challenges to bank as much money as possible in the prize pot. At the start of the show, the host secretly chooses usually three contestants to be ‘traitors’, and their mission is to anonymously ‘murder’ or vote off the rest of the players who are known as ‘faithfuls.’

Each night, the entire group gathers for a round table, where the ‘faithfuls’ try to figure out who the ‘traitors’ are and banish them one by one through a group vote. If they manage to get rid of them all, the ‘faithful’ or ‘faithfuls’ left at the end get the cash, but if there are any secret ‘traitors’ left, it is they who pocket the spoils and the ‘faithful’ or ‘faithfuls’ go home with nothing.

It’s a simple........

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