We aren’t keeping count, but we’re pretty sure more players than ever requested to be traitors this year during their fireside chats with Winkleman.
“A lot of them just say, ‘I think it would be more fun’,” Winkleman explained.
“And at some point, I’d really like to lean forward and say, ‘That’s actually not how you win, statistically’.”
She added: “You had to pick someone who wanted it. In the celebrity version, lots of them asked to be faithful. In this cast I think it was one.”
Eventually, Winkleman plumped for Rachel, Hugo and Stephen – plus, of course, the fourth traitor, whose identity remains a secret.
“You never know whether you’ve picked right,” Winkleman concluded, “but I’d like to think there isn’t a wrong.”
