Claudia, the host, was utterly depressed because cultural director Matthew, 35, has just received their marching orders at the round table.
Matthew Hyndman, a disgruntled faithful, claims he wishes he had spent the time on The Traitors on BBC1 and “all guns blazing” for traitor Stephen Libby. Additionally, he regrets not working harder to stop James Baker from attacking him and instead work with Stephen, who is currently escaping with the competition alongside fellow traitor Rachel Duffy.
Creative director Matthew, 35, has become the latest in a long line of faithfuls to get their marching orders from The Traitors at the round table, leaving host Claudia Winkleman barely able to disguise her disappointment over their performance. Looking furious as they got rid of Matthew, she told them: “Faithful, what are you thinking? The Traitors will murder one of you tonight. I am genuinely speechless. Good night.”
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Matthew acknowledged later that he had been “gutted” not to be chosen as a traitor in the game. He continued, “A few errors I made near the end, particularly at the final round table,” adding: He sighed as he realized that I had to fire all the shots at Stephen. I understood that James would have to cast his ballot because of the numbers, so I knew I couldn’t go after Stephen because he would have won, and I would be gone. He would always support me because he was a Traitor, and I assumed he was.
He claimed that gardener James, who had grown suspicious of him from day one, would have chosen him because he now regrets playing it a very different way. In the game of the Traitors, you have to kind of do that, he said, “but if someone doesn’t like me, I’m not going to beg them to be my friend.”
I should have tried desperately to reach James and said, “Look, Stephen is a traitor, he’s going to vote for me tonight. Please just listen to me on this one occasion; if I’m wrong, I’ll banish you the following night because “I should have tried to persuade James, but I just didn’t bother trying.”
Matthew received five votes, including the double whammy from James, and two from the traitors Stephen and Rachel in the end. Prior to his departure, he had designated them both during the return car from the mission as his next targets, with Faraaz acknowledging that he harbored the same suspicions. James later wept over his error, claiming that Matthew’s mistaken identity would have sealed his own fate. “That’s me f***ed”, he said. “Probably deservedly so,” she continued.
Matt made a second-guessing statement about his game plan afterward, demonstrating that the pair were correct to refuse him the chance to join them in the tower despite his valiant bid to “break” with them. According to Matthew, “I had a plan in place that if I had been hired, I would have come down to breakfast and then said to everyone that I was sitting on some information, and that the traitors would have instructed me to hire Rachel next, as I would have known that Rachel was a traitor, and it would have had to have been Rachel.”
He said his game plan had been to stay in the BBC show for as long as possible – and his suggested ploy to join the traitors could have helped that. “I just wanted to be a Traitor!” he laughed. “I was also so certain that I was going to be murdered. When I got voted the fairest, and then got the power to meet the Traitors, I thought I was really at risk. I just saw that as an opportunity to give myself at least two more days in the game.” And he added: “People don’t get how hard it is.”
Because Jack Butler had earned a shield during the fairground mission, the two remaining traitors had to choose who to kill in last night’s show. Only Roxy Wilson and Faraaz Noor are still considered potential murder victims after determining that James and Jade Scott will be the ones who will be expelled next.
Faraaz was problematic because he had just accused Rachel of being a traitor, but the former is a useful ally because she trusts both of them to be faithful. He then shared his thoughts with a group that included Rachel after launching his correct theory against her in the library.
Faraaz, the youngest player at just 22, said he thought Rachel had kept him because he was useful to her and that there was a big disagreement between her and Fiona Hughes. He said that after a disagreement, he decided to call it “traitor on traitor” and that Rachel had kept him in the game because he was. While Roxy muttered, “Please no, please no,” Stephen feigned shock when he revealed his thoughts.
At the conclusion of the day, Faraaz said to Rachel, “Don’t kill me tomorrow, please, or tonight”! which forced her to confess to him, “How do you know that I’m not a traitor?” because I would have killed you the night before. Jack sputters, “That’s brutal,” as he listens in.
Stephen acknowledged to the camera that he now worries about the pair of them making it to the final: “Rachel has an uphill battle to make it to the end game. I’m just hoping she can succeed. Even though she had promised to never write his name on her slate, he still got jittery after being warned that he would have to start talking about him with the other people.
