'The Traitors' Linda didn't have a clue what was going on, but she was TV gold'
'The Traitors' Linda didn't have a clue what was going on, but she was TV gold'
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So farewell then Linda, you’ve been a fantastic Traitor from that very first giveaway head-turn in episode one. Not because you are any good at the game because, let’s face it, you haven’t really had a clue what’s been going on. But because you’ve been hugely, and brilliantly, entertaining.
While some of the Traitors, like Paul last year, clearly spent ages thinking about their gameplay, their tactics and their strategy, Linda looked like she’d never given it a single thought until rocking up on the BBC1 gameshow. She seemed genuinely surprised to be there, despite having watched the previous two series and, you know, filled in the application forms.
I think the main appeal of the cheerful pensioner was how happy she was to let Minah do all the heavy-lifting when it came to being a Traitor, which suited them both just fine and gave us lots of laughs. “Absolutely!” she’d reply to every single one of Minah’s suggestions. But every now and then she’d decide to make a teeny bit more effort, and that’s what provided those choice Linda moments.
Top of the pile was theatre-gate, when she decided to sob like crazy over the murder of Livi - in which she’d participated - having only told Jake the night before that she was very good at holding her emotions in. I mean, what was she thinking?. Yet somehow, time after time, the others would be distracted by the behaviour of a fellow Faithful just enough to vote them off instead, giving Linda a stay of execution.
