The Traitors star Livi Deane has said she “felt awful” when she found out fellow contestant Freddie Fraser was a faithful after accusing him of murdering her at the end of her last episode.
The 26-year-old said the pair had made up after leaving the BBC reality gameshow, and said she had suspected actual traitor Linda Rands, who has become a fan favourite for continuing to avoid being banished despite making a number of seemingly obvious outbursts.
Speaking about finding out that politics student Fraser was not a traitor on ITV’s Loose Women, Deane said: “So we do an Uncloaked (The Traitors’ sister show), and then we reveal.
“So I was with Dan (Bird), and that’s where we discovered Freddie is not a traitor, or I did, and I felt awful of course.
“He definitely went through it, and it was a lot, and he deserved a break.”
She added: “Do you know what? Coming out of the show, I was actually quite confident, and I felt like we had such fun times, and we all got on as a whole, me and Freddie after that scene, like we literally hugged it out.
“And I said, what an amazing person I thought he was, I just thought he was a traitor.
“So I felt confident, there’s so many happy times that we had, I’m actually quite a positive person on the outside world, and it is a game so, of course, they’re going to edit it.
“And I guess me being an emotional person was good for the entertainment, so it was difficult to watch back to say the least.”
Speaking about retired opera singer Rands, 70, Deane said she had picked up on signs that she was a traitor early on.
She explained: “Obviously, as the show’s edited, I actually did suspect Linda from the get-go.
“She was sitting there, she was sitting next to me when the blindfolds came off, she was looking really sweaty and flustered.”
She said she thought the retired opera singer had stayed in so long because “people love having her in there”, and added that she was “so shocked” when she found out that Minah Shannon was the other traitor, saying she had not suspected her.
Deane is a model and beautician from Horsham, who had an eye removed and underwent chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, retinoblastoma, at the age of 12.
She also told Loose Women as “the eldest person in the UK to be diagnosed with (retinoblastoma)” she wanted to help other families going through this “traumatic time” by raising awareness for the condition by doing the show.
Deane also said she hoped her time on The Traitors will help children with prosthetic eyes “think, you know what, this shouldn’t hold me back from doing what I want to do”.
She also spoke about her son, playing with her prosthetic eye, which she hopes helps him to understand and normalise her condition.
The tense BBC game show sees contestants attempt to identify who among them are “faithfuls” and which are “traitors”, with the traitors plotting to murder the faithfuls, and the faithfuls trying to identify and banish the traitors.
Finalists have a chance of winning a chunk of the up to £120,000 prize money but if a traitor survives until the very end, unidentified, they take home the full prize pot, while any faithfuls left go home with nothing.
The Traitors continues on BBC One at 9pm on Wednesday.
