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Monday’s episode of The Traitors Ireland saw an innocent woman getting voted off, leaving the ringleader of the campaign against her in tears of guilt.
In the RTÉ show, participants have to guess who the Traitors are among the innocent ones, known as the Faithful
Despite being a Traitor, leadership consultant Katelyn, 32, said: ‘I did not have a good night’s sleep last night. I probably got about three hours’ sleep.’
Radio presenter Diane, 54, was the first contestant to be voted off the Irish version of the hit reality show on Monday night.
Upset Katelyn did a good job of pulling the wool over the eyes of the other contestants, hugging them and straining to see who would be next in the door as if she wasn’t aware that her team had killed off Dave the night before.
‘I would definitely murder Dave,’ she told her co-conspirators the previous night. Fellow Traitors Eamon and Paudie were right in their guess that getting rid of Dave would ‘send a ripple’ through the group, as the whole breakfast room was in disbelief when they realised he was the only one who didn’t arrive.
As only she could, host Siobhán McSweeney got an excellent reaction when she unceremoniously took Dave’s photo down from the wall and casually dumped it on the floor, sending gasps across the room.
The second mission of the series saw the team at a forest outside Slane Castle in Co. Meath needing to place Ogham symbols at their corresponding stones in order to win €5,000.
Teacher Niall was one of the few who put himself forward to lead the challenge, as Gaeilge, while the rest of the competitors scrambled around the forest.
‘I was protected from death because I could speak Irish,’ he later joked after the challenge. Paudie’s son Andrew accidentally called him ‘Daddy’ mid-task despite the fact they are pretending to be strangers.
Luckily for the pair, no one heard, but it was clearly a heart-in -mouth moment for both, especially Traitor Paudie.
The tension bubbling under the surface already, on just the second day clearly hampered their teamwork as it took three attempts before the group could finish the task.
Back at the castle, accusations flew but Paudie kept enough of a cool head to joke about killing off another contestant, and the laughs he got ensured that no one would suspect him.
He only got one vote as a Traitor. Diane was in the hot seat and she struggled to deflect the attention from herself, with content creator Vanessa leading the charge for her guilt.
Almost every contestant voted for Diane, and they were shocked when they learned they’d just done the Traitors’ job for them. ‘They played us like a fiddle,’ one contestant said.
Vanessa began crying because of her role in getting Diane booted out, arousing suspicion from others that she might be a Traitor. She quickly got over this, saying Diane ‘should’ve fought harder’ if she was innocent.
Later the Traitors met to select their next victim, with Eamon wanting to continue their plan of dividing and disrupting the group by killing popular members.
