A cast member from BBC's hit The Traitors has opened up about reaching out to a co-star after watching one episode air. The latest series of the BBC show has included priest Lisa Coupland, 62, among the players. Fans saw her 'murdered' at the hands of original Traitor Minah Shannon, 29, and new recruit Charlotte Berman, 32, on Friday night's episode.
She spoke to the Mirror this week about her experience on the show and revealed that she reached out to Minah after watching Charlotte's recruitment air. She spoke about it whilst discussing the original Traitor's strategy on the show. Sharing her thoughts on Minah's strategy, she told us: "She has been so clever. I mean, she has played the game so well. [She's] not stood out too much and she's engaged but not engaged too much." Lisa suggested that Linda Rands, 70, who had been a Traitor, giving Minah her "blessing" to vote her out "helped". She said: "It was not obvious that [Minah] was probably a Traitor voting out another Traitor.".
She continued: "She's been very astute and very wise in her decisions about who to kill, when and why, so that it's not pointing anything directly at her." She added: "I'm not sure that appointing Charlotte was her wisest move though.". Charlotte has teased in confessionals on the show that she's prepared to betray Minah. Asked if that's why she's unsure of the recruitment, Lisa agreed. She said: "It goes back to my initial thing that Charlotte would make a brilliant Traitor.
"[And] because she's only just come in she hasn't had that opportunity to build that relationship that Minah had with Linda, so she doesn't really get a feel of how the Traitors were before. So I think she's kind of being a little bit on the defensive thinking 'okay, y'know, it wouldn't be unusual for a Traitor to bring another person in to use them as a sacrificial lamb'. That's obviously potentially what Charlotte's thinking.".
