Survivor alum Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick spilled large beverage about The Traitors in her EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife about the Peacock show. Stephenie revealed that the Bravo contestants — which includes Brandi Glanville from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Kyle Cooke from Summer House, Kate Chastain from Below Deck, and Reza Farahan from Shahs of Sunset — caused large play astatine the Scottish Highlands castle wherever they filmed the strategy-heavy series.
“The Bravo radical bring the astir drama. They are conscionable made for play TV. They’re hilarious,” Stephenie, 43, told us. “At times immoderate tin beryllium precise frustrating,” she added. “I’m not gonna sanction names. But they’re gonna marque immoderate truly bully TV.”
Stephenie’s comments echo what host Alan Cumming, 57, said erstwhile we interviewed him astir the show. Alan described Kate, 40, arsenic a “diva,” though helium praised the Below Deck alum for however overmuch she brought to the show.
“She would accidental things like, ‘I’m dying to beryllium killed, oregon to beryllium banished, but I won’t get my wealth if I leave.’ Things similar that,” Alan explained. “I loved that astir her. I loved however honorable she was,” helium added.
Premiering January 12, The Traitors features 20 contestants — 10 world stars and 10 mundane radical — who are randomly chosen arsenic either Traitors oregon Faithfuls connected the archetypal episodes. The 3 Traitors secretly “kill” the Faithfuls, 1 by one, portion the Faithfuls person to exposure the Traitors oregon they suffer the $250,000 expansive prize.
Stephenie told HollywoodLife that being a three-time Survivor player inactive couldn’t hole her for the magnitude of manipulation and deceit that goes down on The Traitors.
“Nothing truly tin hole you for this. You’re fixed a relation from the precise archetypal episode. You’re either a Faithful oregon a Traitor. And that makes it precise hard to signifier alliances, which is everything Survivor is built on,” Stephenie explained. “It’s wholly different.”
While Stephenie couldn’t uncover if she’s a Traitor oregon a Faithful earlier the show airs, she did explicate immoderate mistakes that the Faithfuls marque erstwhile they’re trying to suss retired the Traitors.
“Just astir apt letting your idiosyncratic feelings successful the game. Thinking you could spot radical on the way,” she said. “And from a civilian standpoint, immoderate of them were fans of ours. And that played a role. They were acrophobic to spell against if 1 of the celebrities was a Traitor. Because they liked them truthful much. They were specified a large instrumentality of them.”
Stephenie continued, “Once your emotions get involved, it screws up what you’re truly determination for. You’re determination to play a crippled and spot nobody. So that tin beryllium tough.” All 10 episodes of The Traitors drop Thursday, January 12 connected Peacock.
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