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AN IRISH CONTESTANT who appeared on the latest rendition of the hugely popular BBC reality show The Traitors has spoken of the “intense” atmosphere.
Anna Duke, a 28-year-old Wicklow native, was *SPOILERS* ’murdered’ in last night’s episode of the show, which features a group of contestants from the UK and Ireland trying to find the ‘Traitors’ among the ‘faithful’.
In the competitive reality show, hosted by Claudia Winkelman, contestants try to win £120,000 (€142,000) while completing challenges and weeding out the the Traitors in a Scottish castle.
Anna, the only Irish contestant in the latest season of the Traitors, was eliminated from the show in its eighth episode last night after the Traitors voted to ‘kill’ her.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Oliver Callan show this morning, Anna described how she had enjoyed the reality show experience.
“It’s a really good show, you never get the opportunity as an adult to just spend a month totally engrossed in a game, you know? So that just really appealed to me,” Anna told host Callan.
While Anna did not feature much in the first four episodes of the show, the spotlight turned to her in the fifth episode.
“It’s really intense when you’re in there and these people you’ve just met are all turning on each other,” Anna said.
“You constantly think ‘everyone’s gonna vote for me’ – it feels like your heart is in your throat, your hands are sweaty, the paranoia is next level.
“I would not have described myself as an anxious person before, but I felt massively anxious at points in the show,” Anna added.
Anna described how surreal it was watching herself on television, saying that the show had been recorded months ago in Scotland.
“It was actually recorded ages ago, so it has been mad watching it back – even when I knew I was going to get eliminated, I was watching and saying “I hope they don’t pick me,” Anna said.
RTÉ announced in December that an Irish rendition of the popular UK reality show will be produced this year.
Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney will host the Irish version of the show, which will be filmed on location in Ireland and feature a cast of contestants from around the country.
The Traitors Ireland is coming to RTÉ VERY soon…
— RTÉ One (@RTEOne) December 18, 2024
and here is your host… @siobhni 🤩🤩 pic.twitter.com/ZNJAbvV8G1
The series will see 22 constants arrive at a remote castle to play a game of deception, betrayal and trust, with a prize of €50,000 up for grabs.
The rules of the game will stay the same as the UK, US and Dutch versions of the show – among the contestants are the Traitors, who will attempt to secretly murder a player every night, without getting caught.
Each day, the group will complete a series of challenges as they work together to add more money to the prize pot, but if a Traitor remains undetected throughout the game, they’ll steal all the money.
Speaking on the new Irish show, Anna advised constestants to “just be yourself”, adding that “you have no idea what they’re looking for every year”.
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I’m a heterosexual male, so i don’t watch Reality TV.
@David Field: not even the manly programmes, ice road truckers, forged in fire..etc.
@Clare Power: i used to watch Deadliest Catch years ago but tbh, these days, I hardly watch any TV. Chewing gum for the eyes Dougal.
@David Field: yeah I hear ya, feck all on..
@Clare Power: Some really good cookery programmes on.
@Clare Power: the ice never breaks in ice road truckers
@David Field: any sport is reality TV, Elton Field.
@David Field: ya unlike dowl internet tis GR8 doom scroll all day
Looks like good craic, but I can’t understand the crying. Always wanted to have a go at the Crystal Maze…
@honey badger: Paranoia, eh.That ceasefire isn’t worth the blood its been signed off with.
@Pól Pot: What’s the alternative?
@honey badger: There ain’t none. Israel will wipe them from the land incrementally.
@Pól Pot: They won’t, though. Ffs.
@honey badger: Foolish man.
Huge news with everything going on in the world right now…
@Ckeego: why not just move on to an article that interests you? It’s the same as you seeing a message on a notice board in a supermarket and calling the number to tell them you have no interest in what they are offering! Move on
Loved Anna’s outfits. So fun and colourful!
Omg!! Talking nineteen to the dozen on the uncloaked show! Had trouble keeping up with her!
Seems like a fairly lame show to me the one time I watched it
More claptrap!
19 comments. Amazing how many watch tv these days.
The Irish version will be rubbish. Like the Irish version of Strictly or Gogglebox the contestants will be dire and the programme an embarrassment.
No deal with the Islamists, end them all.
@Alex: It is their right not to change, the non Muslims must change or die and be tolerant of those who will not change. Would make a reality programme traitors and a fight to the death.
@Alex: There has to be a deal. For the sake of everyone involved. There is, however, no future involving lasting peace whilst the Islamists govern Gaza. I was very heartened to see so many young men in clean clothes, new uniforms, looking healthy, with fresh haircuts celebrating their victory and promising more October 7ths. Not the usual results you’d associate with a genocide. Odd that.
@honey badger: And still you support a far-right regime that is guilty of war crimes and the collective punishment of the Palestinian people (your backing of Ukraine looks increasingly odd and random given that you care nothing for human rights).
‘Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere are naturally relieved that these merciless Israeli bombardments will soon stop. But celebrations are tempered by fears about the future, and by deep grief and anger over the still terrifying present and immediate past. According to Gaza health ministry figures, more than 46,000 people have died there since the 7 October 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks killed over 1,200 people. The true Palestinian death toll may be even higher.
‘Most of Gaza’s 2.1 million population is displaced. Most of their homes and neighbourhoods are in ruins. Most are short of food and water. Hunger, bordering on famine, is a daily menace. Hospitals and the healthcare system have been smashed. Tent cities have sprung up where real cities once stood. Gangs roam and steal. Children are perhaps the biggest victims. Those who survive are traumatised. The world’s abject failure to halt this slaughter of innocents will not be forgiven or forgotten.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/ceasefire-deal-gaza-netanyahu-trump-peace
@Brendan O’Brien: That’s why Hamas cannot be allowed to be the government of Gaza anymore. I’m sure you agree.
@Brendan O’Brien: Starting a war is unleashing hell.
@thomas molloy: Yes, but that does not imply carte blanche for one side to kill unlimited numbers of civilians. International law forbids that (as does moral law).
@honey badger: As I told you before, I would prefer not to see terrorist organisations such as the Netanyahu regime and Hamas anywhere near power.
@Brendan O’Brien: As I told you before, no October 7th, no horrific war. Hamas plan on repeating the pogrom too. Let’s hope they don’t.
@honey badger: Israel’s pogrom against Palestinians was exponentially larger and went on for 15 months rather than one day, but you gloss over that completely because of the ethnicities of the victims and perpetrators.
@Brendan O’Brien: Are we there already? You don’t like my opinion, so you hail mary something about ethnicities? Even by your standards, that is pathetic. Hamas can’t be allowed to remain in power. No October 7th pogrom. No horrific war.
@honey badger: It is obvious that ethnicity must be a factor, otherwise you could not pitch ~1500 civilian lives as being more valuable than tens of thousands. Ethnicity is the only difference.
I’ve explained to at you at length concepts such as personal responsibility for our actions. You can’t or won’t understand. A stone wall would have a more sensitive moral compass.
But I will continue to call out your shameful obfuscations as I see fit, because such things can’t be allowed to go unchallenged if the world is to have any kind of worthwhile future.
@Brendan O’Brien: It’s not obvious at all. I’ve never assigned more value to any life. This is you doing you. I’ve always simply stated Hamas started the war. Hamas could and should have surrendered many times and released the hostages. They chose not to. The onus is on Hamas as they launched the war. It’s that simple.
@honey badger: Of course it’s not that simple. As I point out above, the mere fact of who started a war does not imply carte blanche for one side to kill unlimited numbers of civilians. International law forbids that (as does moral law).
Sounds like being a sincere politician in Ireland being hunted as game by people after your job.
First world problems
@Oh Mammy: And in ‘the first world’ too! That must really surprise you. Are the LA fires a problem in and of ‘the first world’ also? Don’t tell me. You’d re-define ‘first world’ to suit your unsupported, illogical argument?
seeking attention woman that would show up soon in other shows until she get money and fame. Burk !
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