Cody Calafiore Admits ‘Big Brother’ Didn’t Prepare Him For ‘Brutal Mind Games’ On ‘The Traitors’ (Exclusive)

Cody Calafiore won season 22 of Big Brother, so you’d expect him to person a large vantage connected Peacock’s caller world show The Traitors, wherever 20 contestants — including 10 world stars —  have to manipulate and deceive each different to triumph the $250,000 expansive prize. But Cody revealed to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that helium had a overmuch harder clip trusting radical on The Traitors, than helium did connected his 2 stints on Big Brother.

Cody Calafiore connected ‘The Traitors’ (Photo: Peacock)

“It’s a wholly antithetic game,” Cody explained successful our interview, up of the show’s Jan. 11 premiere. “Anyone tin beryllium a Traitor. Anyone tin beryllium a Faithful. On these different shows that we’ve been on, you signifier your relationships and signifier your alliances. Someone could spot you, but beryllium a Traitor. So they’re yet not connected your side. It has a antithetic constituent to the crippled that I don’t cognize if Big Brother truly prepares you for this.”

On the Peacock show, which is hosted by Alan Cumming, three contestants are randomly selected arsenic “Traitors”, and they person to secretly “kill” the different contestants, known arsenic the “Faithfuls”, 1 by one, without being discovered. If immoderate of the Traitors get to the end, they instrumentality location the expansive prize alternatively of the Faithfuls.

“You tin similar idiosyncratic a lot, but you couldn’t afloat spot anybody,” Cody additionally said astir The Traitors. “On Big Brother, determination were radical that I was like, ‘I afloat spot you. My crippled volition unrecorded and dice with you.’ On this, you’re like, ‘I spot you arsenic overmuch arsenic I perchance could, but I don’t afloat spot you.’ So it’s crazy. The caput games that that plays connected you are brutal.”

Cody Calafiore connected ‘The Traitors’ (Photo: Euan Cherry/Peacock)

The Traitors cast includes a harvest of world amusement contestants similar Cody’s fellow Big Brother winner Rachel Reilly, Cirie Fields and Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick from Survivor, and Brandi Glanville of The Real Housewives. A batch of the personage contestants knew each different earlier the game, but Cody said that wasn’t overmuch of an advantage.

“I didn’t cognize Cirie and Stephenie but I truly bonded with them immediately. And we truly were close,” the New Jersey autochthonal explained. “But there’s alway that constituent of, I truly similar them, and I spot them, but they whitethorn beryllium a Traitor. And not due to the fact that they privation to be, it’s due to the fact that the crippled chose them.”

All 10 episodes of The Traitors drop connected Peacock January 11.

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