The Traitors tense season 3 finale smashes huge record making history but fans demand change

The BBC has announced The Traitors play 3 finale was a grounds breaker and made past - but fans person been asking for a alteration to beryllium made to the endgame

The nail-biting decision to the BBC ’s deed amusement The Traitors has breached a large grounds for the nationalist broadcaster.

The 3rd play came to a thrilling extremity connected Friday nighttime and seems to person been worthy the chaos arsenic the last occurrence attracted a whopping assemblage that was 1.6million larger than past year’s play finale.

The BBC revealed the last episode, presented by Claudia Winkleman, was watched unrecorded by an “average assemblage of 7.4million connected Friday night”, making it the astir watched occurrence of the amusement ever.

Meanwhile, a further 4.8million radical tuned into the aftershow, The Traitors: Uncloaked, which aired consecutive aft the finale.

Meanwhile, The Traitors winners Leanne Quigley and Jake Brown some required enactment and therapy to assistance them support the show's secrets for months. The pair, some Faithfuls, were crowned the winners successful Friday's final, which unlocked the monolithic £94,600 prize money, but earlier then, they had to not talk astir their acquisition and the last outcome.

The BBC amusement was filmed successful the spring, truthful determination were galore months erstwhile they could not uncover immoderate details of their clip successful the Traitors castle. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Leanne and Jake admitted that they required assistance from the show's payment squad and therapy to guarantee the secrets were not fto retired of the bag.

Speaking astir the past months, Jake said: "It was filmed backmost successful the springtime truthful it's been a agelong clip to support it quiet. It's been truly difficult. I mean, I was paranoid successful my caput due to the fact that earlier the amusement adjacent came on, I kept reasoning radical were looking astatine me, but evidently astatine that constituent nary 1 knew who I was."

Following the tense last episode, fans person called for a alteration to the show’s endgame.

The tense past information of the amusement had players Alexander , Frankie , Leanne and Jake gathered astir the firepit aft they had uncovered Traitor Charlotte . The 4 remaining players did not cognize they were each Faithfuls, and they had to each determine whether to ballot for different banishment, oregon anticipation each Traitors had been eliminated. The rules of the crippled meant that if immoderate Traitor remained, they would instrumentality each of the prize pot, whereas if determination were lone Faithfuls left, they got to divided the prize.

All 4 players voted for different banishment, with Alexander being the archetypal to beryllium voted out. Then they decided to banish again, and Frankie was besides chosen to leave. That near Leanne and Jake arsenic the winners, and they divided £94,600 betwixt them . They besides learned that they had banished 2 chap Faithfuls. Some fans adjacent pointed retired online that the banishments could person been decided retired of greed, truthful that the wealth was divided betwixt 2 players alternatively of four.

Fans person pointed retired that this is simply a large flaw successful the game, arsenic Faithfuls are really incentivised to support voting radical retired truthful determination are little radical successful the crippled to stock the cash. One wrote: “The much radical who get kicked out, the bigger portion of the pastry each contestant gets erstwhile they win. The crippled could beryllium improved by either cutting the prize money each clip a Faithful gets evicted, oregon by having a prize money for each subordinate alternatively than for the full team.”

Another commented: “The Faithful request to person a disincentive for banishing Faithful astatine the last occurrence pit ballot (e.g. much wealth for each Faithful left, oregon prize money goes down with each Faithful banished).” A 3rd agreed to the suggestion, saying: “Sounds fair. Would inactive beryllium a gamble, but would marque large viewing,” portion a 4th said: “I would emotion them to adhd thing truthful they suffer wealth each clip a faithful is banished. Think it would adhd a truly bully crippled constituent and marque the players truly deliberation astir what they are doing alternatively of conscionable throwing random theories retired there.”

Many fans felt runners-up Frankie and Alexander were the ‘real winners’ of the bid , contempt not getting their hands connected the currency prize astatine the end. “So tin we hold the existent winners of the series?”, 1 wrote, sharing pictures of Alexander and Frankie on with Traitors Minah and Linda. “But the existent winners were the icons we made on the way,” agreed another, besides sharing pictures of Linda, Minah and Alexander. A 3rd echoed: “alexander robbed this play of traitors he’s the existent people’s winner!”