This previous week, Alan Cumming raised fairly a stir amongst The Traitors‘ fanbase. When requested who he thought the “worst” Traitor has been up to now on the Emmy-winning collection, he alluded to Danielle Reyes, who made her approach to the top of Season 3 in polarizing style. He had a much less controversial, however nonetheless intriguing reply to who he thought was one of the best: Rob Rausch.
Via 9 episodes of Season 4, the Love Island star has been fairly spectacular. His quiet demeanor, Southern appeal, and notion because the “dumb, scorching man” of the forged has allowed him to simply slip beneath the radar. However that does not imply he is resting on his laurels. Certainly, the previous couple of episodes, he laid the groundwork for this season’s occasion of “Traitor-on-Traitor violence,” and was in a position to flip the Devoted onto his fellow cloak-wearers in Lisa Rinna and Candiace Dillard Bassett in a one-two punch.
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Rob’s run has been heralded one of the best by a Traitor for the reason that very first one to do it: Cirie Fields. The Survivor legend (who shall be showing in Season 50 for a report sixth time this spring) got here into Scotland alongside each actuality TV veterans and newbies to tackle a sport none of them had seen earlier than. And, regardless of being fully new to the idea of Traitors, she placed on a grasp class. Cirie was not solely in a position to keep off the radar of the Devoted the whole sport, however she additionally expertly turned on her fellow Traitors, culminating in a second within the finale when she compelled the sport to proceed to throw Arie Luyendyk Jr. beneath the bus. Whereas a dangerous maneuver, it was a profitable one, as Cirie is, to this date, the one Traitor to win an American season.
So, when Parade had the possibility to not too long ago meet up with the fact TV icon, we needed to get her ideas on Rob, the person some have been saying is one of the best Traitor to grace that fort since herself. And it looks like it is an opinion she will be able to get behind.
“Rob is killing the sport,” Cirie tells Parade. “I believe he is doing, clearly, the whole lot proper. Nobody’s actually suspicious of him. When he acquired into the kerfuffle with Lisa and Candiace, he first took out Lisa, adopted proper behind with Candiace, so now he did not have to fret about them.”
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“It is onerous to be a Traitor and also you’re worrying in regards to the Faithfuls and the opposite Traitors,” she explains. “You are simply in the midst of a storm, and Rob type of quieted the storm on the fitting aspect. Perhaps it is a calm earlier than the storm for him, I do not know. However I believe Rob is doing an amazing job. Nobody’s actually suspecting him.”
That mentioned, whereas she had nothing however reward for Rob’s sport, Cirie does admit her eyebrows had been raised by his option to recruit on the finish of final episode: Eric Nam.
“I am not likely certain about his choose,” she says. “I believed he was onto one thing. I’d have chosen Johnny [Weir]. As a result of individuals are already suspecting Johnny. If it had been me, if he had gotten on the bandwagon and acquired them to show and vote Johnny, they might have been happy that every one the Traitors had been gone, proper? ‘We acquired one other Traitor!’ They might have been so celebratory. And no one’s him. He may have simply eased his approach to the top.”
“I do not understand how it should work out with Eric,” she continues. “As a result of no one’s actually Eric. I need a goal. If I’ll recruit and I am the one Traitor, I’ll recruit the largest goal. As a result of individuals are already in your tail, you are more likely to be banished. I feed the villagers with a Traitor, after which I sail to the top.”
We will see how Rob’s option to recruit Eric works out each within the quick and long-term as The Traitors airs a brand new episode tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET on Peacock. However regardless, up to now, the snake wrangler has the black widow’s approval.
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