Honest Monday moment: as much as the likes of Love Island, Married at First Sight and Celebrity Big Brother do their best, they just don't cut it the way The Traitors does. We get truly obsessed over most reality shows here at heatworld, but nothing makes us go feral the way a new series of The Traitors does. And in April 2025, we're deeply missing it.
From those brutal round tables to Claudia's winter knits, there's a hole in our showbiz hearts right now that won't be filled until Celebrity Traitors debuts in autumn 2025. Until then, we rely on social media to keep up to date with the show and the whereabouts of our former Faithfuls and Traitors, as well as iconic host Claudia Winkleman.
In fact, scrolling through our feed the other day we stumbled across a stunning snap of Claudia sporting her iconic dark fringe coupled with some stunning pink sunnies and hearts skipped a beat.
And then we realised it wasn't actually Clauds; it was Love Island 2022 legend Paige Thorne sporting a brand-new Claudia-esque fringe on her Instagram story and, seriously, at first glance we genuinely mistook Adam Collard's ex for the TV presenter.
This isn't the first time we've seen our Love Island 2022 girlies rocking fringes; Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Tasha Ghouri go through a fringe phase at least once a year and every time they do we contemplate jumping ship from bangs town to fringe city, but chicken out at the last minute – but this is definitely a new look for Paige, who is know for her long, side-part, brunette locks.
During her 56 days in the Love Island 2022 villa, Paige coupled up with Luca Bish (thanks to the public), Jacques O'Neil, Jay Younger and Adam Collard (so yeah, it's safe to say she has a type). She went on to date Adam IRL, but, yeah, we all know how that ended, right?
Since then, fans have been DYING for Paige to join All Stars, but two years in a row, she has never shown up (fuming, btw) and there's zero chance producers just haven't called her.
Could 2026 be the year for the Welsh icon and her fringe? The campaign starts here.
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Ben Pulsford is a digital writer for Bauer Media, writing for both Closer online and heatworld. When he's not getting paid to gossip about Big Brother, Love Island, and The Real Housewives of Cheshire, he's storming the London LGBTQ+ scene as drag queen, Beary Poppins. Both Ben and Beary are awaiting an invite to join The Real Housewives of Cheshire for series 18. The budget's not there, but the drama is 💅