The Traitors ‘blindsided’ star Minah reveals fate-sealing mistake – and it’s not Charlotte

Few could person predicted Charlotte’s machiavellian streak connected The Traitors; slightest of each her recruiter, Minah, who was committed to the sisterhood.

Despite Charlotte orchestrating Minah’s banishment, including voting for her astatine the roundtable successful the ultimate enactment of treachery, Minah, 29, tells Metro that implicitly trusting the Welsh imposter was not the lone nail successful her coffin.

The telephone centre manager admits she made the incorrect moves successful her past situation – a traitorous rotation connected chess. ‘I should not person enactment myself down arsenic the subordinate “going nether the radar” oregon picked Jake, who I was closest with, and fixed him the champion things,’ she explains.

‘It was besides a mistake to person picked Leanne arsenic the “most two-faced” – and past panicking due to the fact that she was reacting to the information that someone’s called her two-faced. I would redo that full mission.’

While Minah had full power implicit the crippled of chess, she had, it turned out, nary power implicit Charlotte. In her last moments connected the BBC show, she admitted she was ‘blindsided’ arsenic Charlotte’s deception unravelled.

‘I was amazed erstwhile Charlotte mentioned maine arsenic being a imaginable traitor conscionable earlier the vote,’ Minah recalls. ‘I conscionable felt truthful blindsided successful that moment. I thought, “What’s going on?” And past arsenic soon arsenic she said that, I thought, “There’s nary mode she’s not going to constitute my name”.’

She continues: ‘I was gutted. But past the game-player mentality successful maine really thought, “Fair play.” I thought just play to you due to the fact that I did not spot it coming and, up until then, I thought we were going to the last together. I truly did.’

Minah was besides nary the wiser that Charlotte had been moving overtime persuading the faithfuls that she was a traitor. Like the remainder of us, she discovered Charlotte’s duplicity portion watching The Traitors past week.

‘I’m not gonna lie: that was the hardest week for me, due to the fact that not lone was Charlotte planting seeds astir me, but different radical who had ne'er mentioned thing to maine were besides saying my name,’ Minah says.

‘I cognize it sounds huffy saying it – but I felt truly susceptible again and it was hard. But past watching it backmost it each made consciousness due to the fact that for months it made nary consciousness to me.’

Although Charlotte was the designer of Minah’s downfall, meaning she mislaid retired connected the currency prize, Minah says the effect – becoming the nation’s ‘queen’ – was worthy much than wealth tin buy.

‘I’ve been truly overwhelmed – but successful the nicest way,’ she explains.

‘Going into the show, I conscionable wanted to beryllium myself due to the fact that it’s the 1 happening I’m bully at. I enactment hard connected being a assured person, a assured woman, and a assured achromatic pistillate astatine that arsenic well.

‘From time one, each these astonishing humans that don’t cognize me, messaging maine oregon leaving a remark oregon a tweet oregon making a TikTok astir me, has conscionable been the astir overwhelming thing. I conscionable didn’t expect it.

‘I ever consciousness similar I’m enough, and I cognize I’m enough, but getting that validation – and I didn’t deliberation I needed it – but getting it was everything.’

However, portion her adept traitor skills impressed viewers, Minah admits her ain household struggled to recognise her connected screen. ‘Now, cipher trusts me,’ she says with a mischievous glint successful her eye.

‘They’re like, “You’re specified a bully liar.” And past they’ve watched it, and they’re like, “Do we really cognize you?” The comic bits that you spot of maine they recognise but my enjoyment of the murdering and the scheming, they’re a spot like, “Who are you?” Which is rather funny.’

Minah has nary hint who wins the jackpot but has had theories astir her chap contestants. She was convinced, similar millions of viewers, that Freddie was Francesca’s lad until 2 days agone erstwhile she heard his existent mum connected the radio.

‘I’m not joking,’ she laughs. ‘They’ve some said, “That’s not my mum. That’s not my son.” Frankie adjacent showed maine a representation of her kids – but I was inactive like, “I don’t attraction what anybody tells me, I’m gonna find retired 1 time that that is your mother.”

‘Freddie’s mum was connected a vigor amusement and helium sent it to our WhatsApp group. I was like, “Okay, that’s not Frankie’s voice.” So present I’m good with the information that Frankie and Freddie are not parent and son”.’

You’ll beryllium pleased to cognize Minah is connected fantabulous presumption with each her co-stars. Even Leanne has forgiven her for the ‘two-faced’ fiasco and the brace connection daily. Minah says she is closest to Livi, Leon, Tyler, Jake and Freddie, and speaks to Linda erstwhile a week, but each of the players chat connected a large WhatsApp group.

But contempt the camaraderie, if she could person her prime of traitors, she would shun the formed of play 3. Instead, Minah would prime play 1 stars Amanda and Wilfred and play 2’s mega traitor Harry to crippled with her successful the turret.

As a Swiftie, Minah said she would ‘break into’ the castle if Taylor Swift was connected the personage mentation (she reckons the planetary icon would beryllium an fantabulous traitor) and would formed Holly Willoughby arsenic a faithful arsenic she’s ‘wholesome but would beryllium a ‘good traitor hunter.’

The Traitors continues contiguous astatine 9pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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