Incredible behind-the-scenes secrets of The Traitors revealed by TV insiders to GRANT TUCKER: Insane length round tables REALLY last, £54 place where contestants actually sleep... and when the murders really happen
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It has become the most addictive show on TV, with record numbers tuning in each week to watch The Traitors – a gripping game of backstabbing, treachery and psychological warfare – fronted by Claudia Winkleman. But behind the scenes even more cunning tactics are being deployed, including the use of armies of security guards and a carefully rationed drinks cabinet, to ensure the show's myriad secrets are kept safe….
![[Viewers have been calling this year's round-table scenes the most brutal yet, with tears, tantrums and treachery]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/20/93967873-14271765-image-a-20_1736541099940.jpg)
The aim of the game is simple: there are 22 players in a Scottish castle, who all take part in various trials, but hidden among the group are 'the Traitors' whose job is to secretly 'murder' their fellow players without getting caught. It's up to the others, 'the Faithfuls', to try to detect who the Traitors are and banish them from the game – before they claim their next victim.
![[According to Companies House, the chatelaine of the castle is an 90-year-old called Evie McTaggart, who divides her time between Scotland and Greece]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/20/93967877-14271765-image-a-21_1736541130127.jpg)
Those Faithfuls who survive to the end have the chance of sharing the £120,000 prize money. But if a Traitor remains undetected, they take the lot – like last year's winner, Harry Clark, 23, who successfully duped his castmates into thinking he was a Faithful and scooped a £95,150 prize pot.
![[Contestants eat toast and porridge back at their hotel – the 130-room Courtyard by Marriott, at Inverness Airport, which is a 45-minute drive away]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/20/93967885-14271765-image-a-23_1736541279242.jpg)
It makes keeping everything secret the biggest challenge of the show. No one actually stays at the castle – they are shepherded separately to a much less luxurious nearby hotel every evening, where security guards prowl to make sure there is no conferring or sneaking between rooms.
