The Traitors UK: Twists, turns and betrayals

From the moment Linda risked whiplash by turning her head so quickly when Claudia said the word “traitors”, she became the darling of series three.

The retired opera singer channelled her GCSE drama skills to hide her true traitor identity – and even earned herself a central London billboard.

“Oh my god, who the hell is not going to come back?” she asked unconvincingly one breakfast as they waited to see who had been murdered.

Linda’s fiery side began to emerge during the narrowboat challenge, in which the contestants jabbed at each other for their poor rowing skills.

At the roundtable that followed, Linda told Anna witheringly: “You don’t need to be a sailor to know how to tie a rope, sorry.”

But all good things must come to an end, and, by episode seven, the rest of the pack had caught up with faithful Jake, who suspected Linda “from day one”.

Studies have found the Welsh accent to be the most trustworthy and while that didn’t help Welsh native Elen who was banished second, it certainly came in handy for Charlotte.

“I’m not actually from Wales,” the 33-year-old Londoner privately admitted to the camera in episode one, as she dropped her fake accent.

“I’ve been putting on a Welsh accent because my mum’s from Wales, it’s one of the most trustworthy accents.”

While her fake persona has served her well, it was a hilariously pointless plot twist, and, by the end, her two accents had begun to blur into each other anyway.

Move over Mark Darcy, there’s a new handsome, charming and slightly bumbling man in town: Alexander.

From falling into a flower bush while playing badminton to opera-singing “Sperbu Yur Wur Wur” – which now lives rent free in my mind – Alexander wins the award for nicest contestant, and, thanks to Claudia, we now know that he’s also single.

After he (literally) did most of the heavy lifting during one of the challenges, the nation gave an audible gasp when fellow faithful Joe claimed Alexander’s tiredness was “an act”.

It was heart-breaking to see loveable doctor Kas ostracised by his fellow contestants in the day before his banishment.

At the roundtable, he hit back at Jake for his illogical theory that Kas must be a traitor because he saves lives during the day and therefore, must kill at night.

“You’re basically calling me Harold Shipman or something!” he replied, in what became one of the most viral moments of the series.

Kas (sort of) got his revenge with his exit speech, as he made the others think he was about to admit to being a traitor before pivoting to the truth.

“Joe, who would have thought you’d caught me based on a twinkle in the eye?” he said before revealing he was, in fact, a faithful.