The Traitors star Amanda Lovett has revealed the one thing she wished she could have changed from her time on the intense game show, and it wasn’t banishing Theo Mayne, which she admitted was the ‘hardest’ thing to do.
Amanda had successfully managed to go undetected from the contestants until Tuesday’s episode, convincing them that she was a Faithful, when she was in fact a Traitor alongside Wilfred Webster.
Four contestants voted to banish Amanda, including Hannah, Meryl, and Kieran, but the most brutal vote came from Wilf, who was the decider, as he betrayed Amanda’s trust and backstabbed one of his own, not long after doing the same to fellow Traitor Alyssa Chan.
Alyssa was the first Traitor to be voted out of the game, later telling Metro.co.uk that she felt ‘blindsided’.
At the time, it had been down to Amanda to choose between eliminated Wilf or Alyssa, both on her team, although she has now admitted regretting her choice from the moment it was made.
Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, Amanda told us: ‘The reason I went for Alyssa is because people were starting to question her, because she started saying that she feels emotional amongst adults.
‘So I thought, “Who’s the strongest?”
‘I should have gone for Alyssa,’ the 54-year-old continued.
‘Because my mum’s Irish, Alyssa’s from Ireland, my mum would be up in heaven cursing me,’ Amanda laughed.
‘As soon as it happened, I thought, “Why have I put Alyssa’s name down?”
‘I was thinking, because I was trying to think strategically, so I was thinking that she was getting weaker.’
Amanda added: ‘From the beginning, I felt like she was my daughter as well.
‘We had a good connection, and you know the Irish connection, and everything like that.
‘But of course, when you put the names in, they are locked in. They’re counted and then it’s decided who will do the final one.
‘But once the names are done, they’re locked in. I couldn’t change it, and I was sorry.’
Aside from wishing she could have saved Alyssa, Amanda added that she has ‘no’ other regrets.
She also said that despite him voting her out in a brutal betrayal, she doesn’t ‘hate’ Wilf.
‘He played his game, and that’s what we were in there to do,’ she said.
The Traitors continues tonight at 9pm on BBC One and is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
