THE TOP FIVE…moments in Traitors TV history

Every episode of The Traitors guarantees at least one jaw-dropping scene - here are some of my favourites.

If you’re not up to date with your Traitors viewing (UK version), this piece may contain some spoilers.

1. Wilf and Amanda’s partnership (Season 1)

Wilf was the friendly, funny chap. Amanda was the motherly, Welsh lady. They seemed so kind and trustworthy! So affable and loyal! And yet their villainous alliance in the Traitors’ turret rapidly became the stuff of TV legend.

They began as a threesome, but Wilf and Amanda swiftly stabbed their fellow traitor Alyssa in the back as soon as they realised she was a weak link. Amanda, befriended everyone with her convincing insistence she was ‘100% faithful’ but in truth she was, by her own admission, ‘a Welsh dragon’. Wilf was eventually forced to vote her out, prompting an weepy breakdown from him in the tower and a hug from host Claudia Winkleman.

A tip of the traitor’s cloak has to go to Maddy, another breakout star of the first season, who insisted for weeks Wilf was a traitor, going on little more than a hunch that everyone else found kind of annoying. She was promptly banished after revealing she was an actress. BUT SHE WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG.

2. Paul’s banishment (Season 2)

Paul Gorton was a new breed of traitor. When he appeared on our screens, I remember being slack-jawed in astonishment at his talent for deceit, his acting ability and the fact he seemed to suffer no moral twinges of conscience whatsoever. During the day, he was so charming he managed to win all of the faithful over. At night, he plotted and conspired with dazzling strategic nous, like the lovechild of Kim Jong Un and Nasty Nick. It was AMAZING watching him operate (and it made a lot of sense when we later discovered he’d based his character on Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho). His banishment at the Round Table was a devastating piece of television because he was ultimately brought down by his fellow traitor, Harry Clark, who had played an incredible double (or was it triple?) bluff. The nifty little bow Paul made after his banishment will live on in my memory for longer than it reasonably should.