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The dreaded ending of The Traitors season 3 UK is fast approaching, and what a wild ride it has been. So, what better way to celebrate the homestretch than by reliving the best times?
While there have been some meme-worthy clips in 2025, I can’t help but think about how they compare to what happened in the first two seasons. There are so many that this list was difficult to shorten (sorry Lisa, your priest reveal just missed the cut).
These are the most iconic moments from The Traitors, compiled by a super fan of the series. You can also read when the last episode will air, because it will be at a different time than usual and you won’t want to miss it.
Diane’s funeral
If you ask me to pick the best episode of the entire show: this is it. Pure cinema. No notes.
The climax of Season 2 begins the night after Miles kills Diane by handing her the poisoned chalice of sparkling rosé – with great difficulty. Instead of her dying as expected, the Traitor walks into the breakfast room, sees her sitting there and says, “Hiiii!” with the most panicked, manic grin you’ve ever seen in your life.
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What followed was a full-blown funeral march, with a haunting choir, a shrine dedicated to murdered medium Tracey, and three players climbing into coffins as everyone chose who they thought was marked for death. Then poor Ross had to watch his own mother being ‘buried’. Talk about morbid.
Then we had traitors fighting each other, with Paul and Miles feuding to the death… or banishment, I guess. On the sidelines, Harry masterfully suggested that both could be traitors – a move that would pay off for him later.
Tom’s girlfriend reveals
The very first secret partnership in The Traitors UK was between Tom and Alex, who decided to hide the fact that they were in a romantic relationship to advance in the competition… or at least that was the plan.
Unfortunately, pink-haired Tom lost his cool when allegations of Alex being a traitor surfaced over breakfast after she was brought to justice. pretty much everyone in the castle.
He believed he was a genius because his training as a magician allowed him to read people, especially those who lied. But as the series’ then-“Mother” Amanda pointed out, he couldn’t have been very good at his job because he failed to track down a single traitor.
Adding to all the drama is poor, handsome Matt, who was unknowingly flirting with Alex because he thought she was single and ready to mingle. During Tom’s outburst, Maddy can be heard saying to him, “I thought you were going to hang out with Alex?”. You can’t write this. Extra points for Claudia’s giant turtleneck.
Linda does the bare minimum
It’s no real secret that Linda has been far from a mastermind Traitor this season. And yet somehow she survived week after week, despite terribly unkind behavior.
Once Linda was chosen, she turned to Claudia as she addressed the Traitors – something that did not go unnoticed by Jake. She would only accuse others if they went after her, and she didn’t even bother trying to keep up the appearance that she was tracking down evil players with logical reasoning.
When she voted for Anna, she delivered the iconic line: “You don’t have to be a sailor to know how to tie a rope… Sorry”, which is the most ridiculous reason to ban someone and again something that the Believers have not picked up on.
Ironically, she only appeared on everyone’s radar after she decided to make some effort with an Oscar-worthy performance at breakfast while fake crying about Liv’s murder. But even then it took two nights to catch her. Never change, Linda.
“…but Ross does”
The twist to end all twists was masterfully delivered by Dianne in Season 2, which earns two entries on this list.
We’ve had a few secret couples enter the castle, and while two of them became public knowledge and ultimately led to the demise of the participants, one was kept secret in the castle but brazenly revealed to us at home.
During a Talking Head interview, Dianne laughed as the group speculated that she and Paul were mother and son, as they both have red hair – but hers is of course dyed and it’s way too long.
She then drops the bomb that her real son is in the game, but it’s Ross. The reveal is masterfully interwoven with true crime family photos of the couple as they have secret conversations in plain sight.
They kept up this ruse until the end, with Ross unfortunately wasting his chance at revenge for his poor murdered mother when he was unwittingly recruited as a traitor by Harry and Andrew and fed to the wolves.
Kieran’s parting gift
Whether you agree with this gameplay or not (and believe me, some of my friends still argue about it to this day), this was one of the highlights of season one and it turned the competition on its head head.
After betraying his fellow traitors twice, Wilf seemingly stole the entire prize pool for himself in season 1. He had surrounded himself with people who trusted him and was confident that he would make it to the end.
However, the rules dictated that he had to recruit. He chose Kieran, planning to throw him under the bus like he had done with Alyssa and Amanda. Of course he didn’t take into account that his co-traitor took him away. When he was voted out, he wrote Wilfred on the board and said the last cursed words: “farewell gift.”
Eventually the Believer realized something was wrong and caught the last Traitor at the fire pit.
Charlotte’s Welsh accent
This is one of those twists that left Britain wondering… but why?
Original Faithful (and now Traitor) Charlotte decided, for no good reason at all, that she was going to speak in a Welsh accent for the entire game.
According to her, it is to make her seem more trustworthy. And fair play, because many of the contestants who have left at the time of writing call her their “100% loyal” – what percentage her accent plays into this is another matter, but she keeps up the ruse.
Perhaps one of the producers’ best bedroom edits was the segment where she read a book to learn Welsh. Truly incredible. Now we’re all eagerly awaiting the big reveal of her true accent – perhaps even more so than the reveal of her new role as a traitor.
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Maddy’s Eastenders saga
Maddy’s detective skills in season one were often questionable. That said, there’s no doubt that her reasoning and logic in the talking heads was the most entertaining.
When she entered the castle, she chose to reveal only her role as a receptionist. However, she eventually revealed that she was also a working actress, with the role of a lifetime as a homeless woman on Eastenders.
When this information was revealed, Queen Amanda of Wales (actually Welsh, not fake) managed to twist it to make Maddy seem untrustworthy in the group, ultimately leading to her unfortunate banishment.
Despite her seemingly dim-witted nature, she was the only one who pinned Wilfred down from the start, so who’s laughing now?
Paul’s downfall
Although he didn’t make it to the end as a traitor, Paul is still considered the greatest villain the show has ever seen.
Before the match, he admitted that he read American Psycho to prepare for his new role, and it certainly showed. He managed to manipulate virtually everyone around him and somehow managed to avoid suspicion every week, despite all the signs pointing to him.
It seemed like he was fooling everyone… except two players. Jaz (or Jazatha Christie, as he was known) had been stringing Paul along from the start and was not threatened by his strange intimidation tactics. Then of course there is Harry.
Harry had already seen Paul throw Ash and Miles under the bus and decided to take his fate into his own hands. He led the charge against Paul, who never saw it coming because he believed himself to be the true leader of the traitors. He went out with a well-deserved bow as the players went crazy. As furious as he was, he made excellent television.
The Deathmatch
There’s nothing like a surprise game in The Traitors, and after a horrible day of Claudia sitting on the shoulders of two huge men in a flashy fur coat, poor Alexander, Leon, Anna and Fozia were left playing for their lives, under the cover of the darkness.
Everyone took turns drawing a card, and whoever got the life card managed to stay alive… but there was only one in the deck.
The Death Match was a mix of luck and deceit, with Claudia dealing the cards in incredible skeletal make-up. After graciously allowing Anna to walk free, Fozia drew the wrong cards and, for the first time in the show, came face to face with The Traitors who needed to be killed.
Even though Minah said the line menacingly, the funniest thing about this clip is that Fozia didn’t really seem to know what the hell was going on. After finally accepting her fate, she passed the curse of banishment on to Linda, who responded with an incredible “get over it,” cementing her status as a legend.
Harry’s ultimate betrayal
If you want to play the game as a successful Traitor, all you have to do is watch Harry win the £95,000 prize in Season 2.
After unmasking the cowardly, evil Paul and confirming his false identity as a believer by pretending to have been given the shield, Harry managed to go virtually unnoticed. Only Jazatha Christie was involved in the case. Unfortunately for him, Harry had kept his support network closer than ever.
I’ll never forget the moment the nation collectively shouted at Mollie as she wrote down Harry’s name, before rubbing it out and writing down poor Jaz’s instead. Ultimately, she trusted her boyfriend so deeply and couldn’t believe he would lie to her like that.
It made the shot of him telling her, over the burning pit of fire, that he had always been a traitor all the more bitter… and yet brilliant.