Murdered The Traitors star reveals secret text to co-star after show snub

Ahead of the BBC's the Traitors concluding its 3rd bid aboriginal this week, 'murdered' Lisa Coupland spoke to the Mirror astir Minah Shannon and Charlotte Berman

A formed subordinate from BBC's deed The Traitors has opened up astir reaching retired to a co-star aft watching 1 occurrence air.

The latest bid of the BBC amusement has included clergyman Lisa Coupland, 62, among the players. Fans saw her 'murdered' astatine the hands of archetypal Traitor Minah Shannon, 29, and caller enlistee Charlotte Berman, 32, connected Friday night's episode.

She spoke to the Mirror this week astir her acquisition connected the amusement and revealed that she reached retired to Minah aft watching Charlotte's recruitment air. She spoke astir it whilst discussing the archetypal Traitor's strategy connected the show.

Sharing her thoughts connected Minah's strategy, she told us: "She has been truthful clever. I mean, she has played the crippled truthful well. [She's] not stood retired excessively overmuch and she's engaged but not engaged excessively much." Lisa suggested that Linda Rands, 70, who had been a Traitor, giving Minah her "blessing" to ballot her retired "helped". She said: "It was not evident that [Minah] was astir apt a Traitor voting retired different Traitor."

She continued: "She's been precise astute and precise omniscient successful her decisions astir who to kill, erstwhile and why, truthful that it's not pointing thing straight astatine her." She added: "I'm not definite that appointing Charlotte was her wisest determination though."

Charlotte has teased successful confessionals connected the amusement that she's prepared to betray Minah. Asked if that's wherefore she's unsure of the recruitment, Lisa agreed. She said: "It goes backmost to my archetypal happening that Charlotte would marque a superb Traitor.

"[And] due to the fact that she's lone conscionable travel successful she hasn't had that accidental to physique that narration that Minah had with Linda, truthful she doesn't truly get a consciousness of however the Traitors were before. So I deliberation she's benignant of being a small spot connected the antiaircraft reasoning 'okay, y'know, it wouldn't beryllium antithetic for a Traitor to bring different idiosyncratic successful to usage them arsenic a sacrificial lamb'. That's evidently perchance what Charlotte's thinking."

Further discussing the situation, Lisa revealed that she messaged Minah aft Charlotte's recruitment to stock her disappointment implicit having not been chosen herself. She said that Minah expressed interest implicit selecting Lisa due to the fact that if she had declined the offer, it would person led to her 'murder,' earlier than it ended up happening, arsenic the connection was an ultimatum.

Lisa told us: "I messaged her, erstwhile I saw that she had picked Charlotte connected the programme conscionable gone. I messaged Minah and said 'oh I wished you'd picked maine arsenic a Traitor' and she said 'oh good I didn't due to the fact that I thought that you mightiness accidental nary and past I'd person to termination you'. And I went 'well, you did that anyway'. [...] It would person been bully fun."

Discussing her ain strategy erstwhile she was selected arsenic a Faithful astatine the commencement of the series, Lisa told us: "I'd gone successful with the strategy that I was going to effort and beryllium the grey person, y'know, who didn't basal retired excessively much. Who was determination but not truly there, who didn't travel crossed peculiarly arsenic a menace for anyone. If you're excessively quiescent they go suspicious, but besides if you're excessively large they go suspicious. So it was to effort and capable successful that grey country betwixt radical noticing you but not noticing you excessively much."

She added: "You truly are playing that good equilibrium due to the fact that you don't privation the Faithful to fishy you but besides you don't privation to basal retired excessively overmuch to the Traitors to get them to deliberation you're excessively clever. [...] That's very, precise hard due to the fact that sometimes erstwhile you're successful there, if you are the grey man, and you're not fitting into immoderate peculiar area, you're getting clips of conversations. [...] If you weren't successful important conversations you mightiness miss bits of the puzzle, truthful you weren't getting the afloat picture."

The Traitors continues Wednesday and Thursday nighttime from 9pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The 3rd series' finale volition past motorboat astatine 8.30pm connected Friday night.