One of the most pivotal and anticipated scenes during each Traitors episode is the round tables. It's where emotions run high, heart rates soar, and accusations are thrown around the room as if the cast's lives depend on it.
While viewers only bear witness to, at tops, 20 minutes of intense deliberating before the banished make their exit, it turns out that the reality of the round tables is drastically longer.
Mollie Pearce - a season two finalist and now a Dancing On Ice contestant - tells heat just how intense those round tables are in the moment, after opening up about the 'breakfast' theory.
She explained, 'They are obviously very long. For me, I got quite a lot of backlash from not speaking at the tables, but everyone speaks. It's just the points relevant to that episode that are put in. I think people forget we're not just sat there for 10 minutes. There is so much that goes on around those tables.'
Mollie went on to explain why players can be swayed to change their minds on who is a Traitor throughout the duration of the round tables.
'Your mind can change when you're just sat there because you're there for such a long period of time. Everyone has different points, and you can go in with this strong thought about someone, and it can completely change in that room,' the model said.
She added, '[Producers] would always cut to me and I used to look so bored and tired. There are clips of me and I'm thinking, "When's it going to be over?" It is obviously quite a draining room and not the nicest to spend three hours in because people are arguing. I think people need to remember, a lot of conversations happen and people do speak, even if it doesn't seem like they do.'
The reality star - who thinks the final's new twist will be 'so interesting' - 'massively' empathises with all the strong emotions on display this year, as she draws parallels with her own journey.
She recalled, 'You are just so immersed in the experience. It feels like real life, I'm not lying to you. When I had the round table when Miles [Asteri] went, that day we'd also had the funeral mission with Diane [Carson], which was just super morbid. Diane was such an important person to me in there, to then lose Miles as well...
'Although he was a Traitor, I still lost a really good friend. I voted for Miles and it absolutely shattered my heart, because the thought of him not being a Traitor and me voting for one of my friends... there's no feeling like it.'
She added, 'It's an emotional room. I think unless someone experiences it, you cannot explain how intense and how real it all feels. I don't blame [this year's cast] for being emotional. It's so easy to judge online, but try playing that game and I think it will completely change your mind.'
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