Project manager Jake Brown and former soldier Leanne Quigley have won series three of The Traitors and will share a prize pot of £94,600.
The pair revealed their identities as faithfuls after interior designer Francesca Rowan-Plowden, former British diplomat Alexander Dragonetti, and business director Charlotte Berman were banished from the BBC One show.
Charlotte was the first to be banished after she aroused suspicion from her fellow competitors when Francesca told them she was a traitor.
Earlier in the episode, Francesca, who was granted the power of the “seer”, attended a secret meeting with Charlotte and opened an envelope containing a card printed with the word “traitor”, revealing her friend’s status.
As Charlotte watched from across the table, Francesca became emotional and Charlotte said: “You realise, this doesn’t leave this room. As in, I’m not a traitor on the outside of this.”
“Oh, my God, Charlotte, you’re gonna say that I’m the traitor, aren’t you?”, Francesca said in response.
At breakfast the next morning, Francesca told the contestants that Charlotte was a traitor but Charlotte threw the same accusation back at her, leaving their fellow players confused.
The contestants had been whittled down to five after rounds of banishments and “murders” on the BBC One programme, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, who welcomed 22 strangers to a castle in the Scottish Highlands.
The game involves the faithfuls attempting to banish the traitors, who murder during the night time, in order to win a prize pot of up to £120,000.
If any traitors are left undetected by the end of the show they win the money earned during team challenges.
The contestants added £21,000 to their prize fund after completing their final challenge during Friday’s episode.
The mission involved four of the players – Leanne, Jake, Alexander and Francesca – hanging from a helicopter while attempting to drop bags filled with money into a burning ring of fire in a field, directed by Charlotte on the ground.
After Charlotte was banished, the remaining contestants chose to banish twice more, despite all four of them being faithfuls, leaving just Jake and Leanne to share the £94,600.
This year the finalists were no longer able to reveal whether they were a traitor or faithful after being voted out making it more difficult for the contestants to know when they should stop banishing.
After their win, Leanne revealed to Jake that she had lied about her identity as a nail technician and was actually a former British Army soldier.
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Charlotte had also lied about her identity on the show and pretended she was Welsh.
She told spin-off show The Traitors: Uncloaked: “I literally did it on my audition video, to try and stand out…
“And I mean it got me on the show, and it got me to the end, and it gave me the biggest headache ever.”
Last year, treacherous British army engineer Harry Clark won the show as a traitor and took home the whole £95,150 prize pot after he deceived his friend Mollie Pearce in the dramatic final episode.
The show has won a host of awards including at the Bafta TV Awards in 2023 for best reality and constructed factual.
