The Traitors in shock twist as three axed contestants RETURN to the show after a nail-biting elimination plot twist
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The Traitors has returned with a bang after Claudia Winkleman welcomed 25 contestants to the castle this week. Yet for three contestants their time on the show was short and sweet after they were eliminated from the game after sacrificing themselves off the train in episode one.
![[Ex-British diplomat Alexander, 38, outreach manager Fozia, 50, and market trader and landscaper Jack, 24, will all make their dramatic comeback]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/04/23/93745535-14250795-image-a-62_1736034442168.jpg)
However, it has now been revealed the three axed players will return to the show in a shock twist. Ex-British diplomat Alexander, 38, outreach manager Fozia, 50, and market trader and landscaper Jack, 24, will all make their dramatic comeback, completely unexpected to the other players.
![[The threesome all sacrificed themselves when they all volunteered to get off the train so that the remaining contestants could head to the castle and start the game (pictured L Fozia and R Jack)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/04/23/93745589-14250795-image-m-58_1736034143609.jpg)
The threesome all sacrificed themselves when they all volunteered to get off the train so that the remaining contestants could head to the castle and start the game, adding £7,000 for the winner's prize pot. An insider told The Sun: 'Beeb bosses weren't going to let these three brilliant personalities go without any proper airtime.
![[An insider said : ' Beeb bosses weren't going to let these three brilliant personalities go without any proper airtime' (pictured Alexander)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/04/23/93745605-14250795-image-a-57_1736034140784.jpg)
The Traitors in shock twist as three axed contestants RETURN to the show after a nail-biting elimination plot twist. Ex-British diplomat Alexander, 38, outreach manager Fozia, 50, and market trader and landscaper Jack, 24, will all make their dramatic comeback.
![[Friday's episode ended with three hooded figures driving on a horse-drawn carriage with the suggestion the three contestants were inside]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/04/23/93745613-14250795-image-a-60_1736034398098.jpg)
'It was all left to chance in the first few scenes as to who would get kicked off the show, as the contestants decided among themselves. 'So producers had planned all along to save the trio and reinstate them further down the line as the game hots up.'.
![[The carriage was marked as 'rail replacement']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/04/23/93745611-14250795-image-a-53_1736034129711.jpg)
