Rachel Duffy, who was the first female Traitor to win the series, claimed she’d been trained by a former FBI agent prior to going on The Traitors, in order to help her sniff out the deceitful
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Rachel Duffy has come clean about the “obvious lie” she told on The Traitors. She claimed that she had “months” of FBI training but has now admitted that this was not completely true.
Whilst on The Traitors, Rachel was one of the original murderous trio who the Faithfuls were trying to catch. As she and fellow Traitor Stephen both reached the end, they took the prize pot, splitting £95,000 between the two of them.
One claim that made Rachel seem more trustworthy to the Faithfuls was that she had completed months of FBI training, helping her notice microexpressions that happen on liars’ faces. She used this claim whenever she was questioned on how she could know with such certainty that Fiona was a Traitor.
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But, she has now told The Mirror that this was not the entire truth. “I did one of [the FBI agent’s] training courses, but I did… I obviously lied,” she admitted.
“And so I had said it was a four-month online course… but it was more of like a one-day course on an e-book. But it did help because it gave me something in my back pocket.”
Rachel has also shared that though she has no plans for further reality TV appearances, she is thinking of writing a book. “No immediate plans to go for reality TV. I think I’ve done enough with that one.” she said.
“I think my focus now is on the kids and potentially bringing my book to life. So I’ve written a book, taken 10 years to write it… it’s about murder and lies… a contemporary fantasy novel for young adults all about Irish redheads in a magical forest.”
Family pride in Rachel ran deep according to the proud mum: “My husband was the only one that knew, and he’d never watched the show. So when I told him… he said, ‘that’s great’, and ‘oh, good job’… My little kids watched last night with the family and they just couldn’t get over it.”
Rachel was the first female Traitor to win the series and she and Stephen were the first Traitor pair to win together. Prior winners have either been groups of Faithfuls or a single male Traitor.
The pair’s win largely came down to a pact they made early on. After they both turned on their other Traitor Hugo, they agreed not to dob each other in. That pact lasted all the way to the end.
In the tense final, Rachel repeatedly told Stephen that she would not turn on him but both of them seemed to waver, with Rachel even agreeing with Faraaz to vote Stephen out. But when it came to the roundtable, she and Stephen both got rid of Faraaz instead, whilst he voted for Stephen and Jack voted for Rachel.
Then they both teamed up to get rid of Jack, leaving them as the only two left in the game. As such, they split £95,000 between the two of them.
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