It’s back and more dramatic than ever. The Traitors cast for season 2 is stacked with all your favorite Reality TV celebrities and they’re ready to take on the challenge. The Traitors UK is a reality show based on the party game Mafia where 22 contestants play as “Faithfuls” who try to make it until the end to share the prize money of $250,000.
Host Alan Cumming picks out a set of “Traitors” whose goal is to eliminate all of the “Faithfuls” so that they could steal the money at the end. “Traitors” can murder “Faithfuls” and the rest of the “Faithfuls” must choose who they think killed the “Faithful” and banish them. At the end of each day, they all come together to vote for who they think killed them. A “Faithful” can also go into the armory and gain immunity which allows them to be saved and not killed. At the end of the series, the remaining “Faithfuls” can share the prize money if there are no “Traitors” among them. However, if there is one “Traitor” remaining, then the “Traitor” wins the money for themselves.
“They asked me, who was not an obvious choice, and I got to sort of develop this new character. Although I’m hosting a reality show, I feel like I’m definitely acting a character,” Cummings told Gold Derby. “I think it’s so much more fun. You get to wear those cloaks. You get to camp around. It’s the most camp show. It’s the campest thing I’ve ever done — and that’s me saying that.”
He continued: “I do feel that the show has connected with people in a way,” he readily admits. “With this show, so many people were so excited about it … It’s had this great connection in a really extraordinary way. The Emmys are obviously voted on by our working peers and by the people who work in our industry, and that’s always a really nice thing to be sort of lauded by people who you work alongside.”
Season 1 brought the champion out of Survivor and Big Brother legend Cirie Fields and time will only tell on who will win the $250,000 prize. Here’s a list of everyone in The Traitors season 2 cast.
Carsten “Bergie” Bergensen is one of the contestants on The Traitors. Love Island fans knows him from Season 5, where he made a match with Taylor Smith. As to what he thinks is the most traitorous thing he’s done…is well nothing really. “The most traitorous thing I’ve ever done is… I can’t even think about it, so I think I’m just a Faithful at heart,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “But we’ll see what I end up doing in this game.”
Chris “C.T” Tamburello joins the cast of The Traitors season 2. A reality alum, he’s won 14 seasons of The Challenge, and he’s glad to be in the same age range of people in this competition. “I love the fact that it’s the three of us here who are still representing the old guard, the OGs, the vets, representing The Challenge and representing MTV,” he told People.
Survivor fans rejoice! Survivor double threat Dan Gheesling joins the cast of the Traitors. He won season 10 and was the runner up in season 14. It’s no surprise that he’ll use his cunning ways in this show too. ” When I play these games, it’s my chance to live my hobby,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I really enjoy playing these games and I don’t do it in real life because I’m just a nice guy… or so they think.”
Boxer Deontay Wilder isn’t pulling up to the ring, but the Traitors mansion in season 2. He shared his wisdom with Entertainment Weekly, “I’m a straightforward guy. I keep it real with people at all times as I want them to keep it with me. I value the golden rule: Do unto others that you want them to do unto you, and that’s how I go in life.
Love Island UK season 8 winner Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu will be joining along The Traitors season 2. The most traitorous thing she has done was in grade school. She told Entertainment Weekly, “She accused me of stealing her apple and I just had to basically say I was innocent. But she really thought I stole the apple because I was hovering around her table too long during lunchtime. I was like, “It was this guy called Adam. He stole the apple. Adam’s apple, as they say.” But I stole the apple.”
Four-time Big Brother alum Janelle Pierzina joins the cast of The Traitors season 2. In an interview with Parade, she revealed if she’s going to unleash her revenge with fellow Big Brother alum Dan Gheesling. “Dan and I were like not ever together…I won’t be like I’m dying to work with Dan or upset that something happened in the game where he took me out,” Janelle explained. “I’m not gonna bring that into this game.”
Hailing from The Real World and The Challenge, Johnny “Bananas” Devananzio is ready to take on The Traitors season 2. Funnily enough, he didn’t know what the show was about before signing on to it. ” I didn’t watch anything. I thought the show was called “Traders,” like with a D,” he told Parade. I thought we were gonna come on, like, a dating show where we’re gonna be trading significant others. CT and I spoke before, and he was like, “You watch the show?” I said, “No.” “
Okay, maybe he hasn’t been in a reality show, but John Bercow has been the Speaker of Parliament…which is sort of like reality TV.
Bling Empire‘s Kevin Kreider is all set to join the cast of The Traitors. As if he lives up to the Traitors name, he tells Entertainment Weekly, “I don’t really know too many things that I’ve done that are really traitorous in general. I find myself to be more of a Faithful, because when I try to be traitorous, I end up feeling guilty about it, and then I have to confess anyway at the end. So I’m hoping if I become a Traitor, I can at least hold it in for two, three weeks until I can just confess later. I’m not normally traitorous, but living in Los Angeles for the last five years, there’s a lot of traitors in my life, so I wouldn’t mind giving some of these people a little taste of their medicine.”
Bravo fans will be happy to know that Real Housewives of Miami star Larsa Pippen will be joining The Traitors cast with her partner Marcus Jordan. She attributed her reality show to her strategy towards the game. “I kind of wanted to push myself,” Pippen told People why she signed on for The Traitors. “I feel like all the stuff that I’ve done on Bravo has basically been safe and this was a place that was far unsafe, didn’t know what the outcome was going to be, if I was going to be good or evil or what.”
Marcus Jordan, son of Michael Jordan, will be joining his partner Larsa Pippen in The Traitors season 2. Though, he hasn’t been the star in any reality TV, he dubbed himself as a “big murder mystery fan” to People and was very excited to join the game. “Watching season 1, I kind of got hooked,” he says. “And then also I felt like all of the content around the game is strictly focused on the game and it doesn’t dwell too much into your personal life. And so that was a big draw for me.”
“My strategy is to be a sponge,” he recalled. “I think watching season 1, if you come in too hot, it might work against you. And so, I felt like the first couple of days getting to understand everybody and learn everybody’s personality really helped me help develop my strategy moving forward.”
Dancing with the Stars professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy will be joining along for The Traitors season 2. In his Entertainment Weekly interview, he’s going into the game very chill. “I’ve never really been a traitor. I lead always with honesty’s the best policy and of that nature. I’m an old school, well raised, good boy type of thing. So yeah, not a treacherous personality per se. Can I back stab somebody? Yeah.”
Mercedes “MJ” Javid of Shahs of Sunset is ready to take on The Traitors season 2. She humored herself in the traitorous thing she’s done which “involves my shapewear betraying me by rolling down and creating panty lines and bulges that they are meant to actually correct.”
A Survivor dominator Parvati Shallow is set to appear in The Traitors season 2. On the differences between Survivor and Traitors, Parvati gushed about this change to Parade. “I couldn’t be more excited to be wearing clothes,” Parvati said. “Different outfits for different days. More than just one old pair of underwear for 39 days, I’m so jazzed.”
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9 runner-up Peppermint is ready to take on the mansion in The Traitors season 2.
When she was asked if she thought she was underestimated by Parade, she told the publication, “I don’t think many people knew who I was when I walked in the door here. And I don’t think many of them have watched Drag Race. I think I appear to be just like a drag queen, but I’m the first ever trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway. And so I have a lot of talents and skills a lot of people just don’t know about. And so maybe in that regard, yes, I’m an underdog, under-the-radar player.”
Season 24 Bachelor and Season 15 Bachelorette contestant Peter Weber joins The Traitors season 2 cast. Pete is actually relieved that no one else from Bachelor Nation is on the show. “I think it’s probably an advantage not having anyone else from my show,” he told Parade. “No one truly knowing you and your personality, your ins and outs. Because there are a couple contestants that don’t have that advantage. Whether there’s beef there or not, they have a read on each other. So kind of being like a lone wolf I think probably is an advantage.”
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks is ready to take on The Traitors season 2. She dished to Parade, “I only knew that I was coming five days ago. So I’m a late-to-the-party type of girl for this one. But when I watched the [Season 1] reunion, it just broke my heart. I was like, “How dare she [season 1 winner Cirie Fields] not give those people money? They need help.” It was very sad to see how upset they were. I can see now that you really like the people you’re here with. You know, we’ve got a great group of people here. They’re really nice.
Survivor winner Sandra Diaz-Twine is ready to take on another reality show with The Traitors season 2. Her expertise is necessary she told Entertainment Weekly as she’s “done a lot of traitorous stuff. One of my go-to traitorous moves is backstabbing, lying, deceiving, cheating, everything that I’m good at, which are things we do on Survivor.”
This Real Housewife of Atlanta is ready to take on The Traitors season 2. She told Parade of her strategy, “I just figured I’ll be me and go in, listen, keep my eyes open, ears open and just do what I do as, you know, a bone collector. I’ll collect a few bones, use them to my advantage.”
This long-time member of The Real Housewives of Orange County is taking on The Traitors season 2. She outed someone for an affair on the Bravo show, will she do something more traitorous on the Peacock show?
Trishelle Cannatella joins her Real World family in The Traitors season 2. She told People that going on The Challenge, “had gotten way too hard for me physically,” but feels like with The Traitors, “I can still carry my weight.”
The Traitors host is actor Alan Cumming. He also produces the show on Peacock.
“They asked me, who was not an obvious choice, and I got to sort of develop this new character,” he told GoldDerby of his on-screen persona. “Although I’m hosting a reality show, I feel like I’m definitely acting a character.”
AS if what role he would be on a contestant on the show, he revealed, “I totally want to be a traitor. I think it’s so much more fun. You get to wear those cloaks. You get to camp around. It’s the most camp show. It’s the campest thing I’ve ever done — and that’s me saying that.”
He also lauded his own responsibilities telling The LA Times, “Sometimes my job was to get them going, because sometimes they’re all in a bad mood and nobody wanted to talk. So, yeah, it was half monitoring, half cajoling and then reprimanding. Often, they were sort of speaking to each other when we were supposed to be voting and I have to intervene, like bad daddy.”
The Traitors is available to stream on Peacock. Here’s how to watch it for free.
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