The Traitors returned on Thursday with an action packed episode filled with twists.
As well as the newly introduced Secret Traitor role, viewers were also treated to not one but two connections between the players, which will definitely impact the game in different ways.
The biggest shock came partway through when Roxy revealed Judy is her mum, in a moment very reminiscent of Diane delivering the perfect twist in series two when we found out Ross is her son.
This time round, Roxy was talking to the camera explaining why she was being so protective of her fellow contestant.
However, eagle eyed viewers have spotted that she accidentally gave away the twist earlier in the episode during the first mission of the series.
The group were tasked with rowing on a huge loch in hunt of 12 coffins out of a hundred with money inside, and during one tense moment, Roxy shouted some instructions at her mum, who adopted her when she was four.
‘Stop, mum,’ she yelled. ‘Stop, stop, stop, guys!’
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Viewers were amazed the other contestants didn’t seem to pick up on the slip-up at the time.
‘Roxy called out ‘Mum’ in the boat. How did they not hear her,’ asked @chelsea_maid, while @ichbinsammy_ added: ‘How on Earth did no one else clock Roxy shouting “Mum” on the boat?!!!’
Fans thought that ‘surely one of them in the boat’ must have heard what she said, while other viewers were loving the potential chaos.
‘This is gonna be so much fun,’ wrote teheashleetehe.
‘I thought it was a secret, but Roxy called Judy “Mum” in the challenge?! 🤔,’ added a confused @GrantSRivers.
Others felt vindicated after picking up on the awkward moment, as @_BIG_BARBIE triumphantly wrote: ‘”Because she’s my mum,” I KNEW IT, Roxy accidentally called Judy mum during the challenge #TheTraitors’
Meanwhile, some fans are already excited at the prospect of someone bringing up the awkward moment at the roundtable, even if no one let on at the time.
Mike Cotton, creative director of production company Studio Lambert, admitted the scope for twists like this is what makes the regular show so unpredictable compared to the celebrity series.
‘One of the great things about the regular series is the contestants can come in with secrets, whether that’s about their lives or secret relationships,’ he told the BBC.
‘We never know when we’re going to deploy it. When we’re going into filming, we go in, and wait to see how it plays out.’
In another twist, viewers saw two contestants recognise each other as they got out of the cars at the beginning, as it turns out Ross and Netty know each other through a mutual friend, although they haven’t seen each other in years.
Mike has confirmed producers ‘cast them as individuals’, not knowing there was a deeper connection.
‘We do really lengthy background checks on who takes part, and as part of that we discovered that they [Netty and Ross] follow each other on social media,’ he explained.
‘So we knew there was a tenuous link, but we didn’t know whether they would recognise each other, or how they would react.’
The Traitors continues Friday at 8pm on BBC One.
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