‘Categorically wrong’: Former Traitors star debunks intriguing fan theory about how to spot a Faithful
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Series one contestant laid out the evidence against the popular fan theory. The Traitors star Ivan Brett has disproved a popular fan theory about how contestants might be able to easily identify which of their fellow players are Faithfuls. After the third season of the BBC game show launched on Wednesday (1 January), fans took to Twitter/X to speculate that the order of the contestants’ arrival at breakfast might provide a clue as to who is being honest about their Faithful status.
![[Some viewers suggested that players should look more closely at the order of their fellow contestants’ arrivals]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/02/11/504220.jpg)
Viewers suggested that the final few players to turn up to the dining room in the morning usually tend to be Faithful contestants who narrowly avoided being “murdered” by the Traitors the previous night. Traitors fans speculated that this pattern might be used in order to create more tension for the viewers at home, and that noting this might help players to avoid inadvertently “banishing” the wrong contestants at the round table.
![[Author and games designer Ivan Brett appeared in the first series of ‘The Traitors’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/03/11/newFile-7.jpg)
However, season one contestant Brett, an author and games designer, soon weighed in to debunk this theory by looking back at examples from past series. “Quite often I’m told how because the final two or three players arriving for breakfast on #TheTraitors are always Faithful, this is a game-solving clue that the other players never use,” he wrote. “Well, here’s why the Late Faithful (Laithful) strategy is categorically wrong.”.
