- By Steven McIntosh
- Leisure reporter
This text reveals the result of the second collection of The Traitors.
Warning – spoilers forward! Six gobsmacking moments from the The Traitors
The BBC’s hit actuality collection The Traitors concluded on Friday, with traitor Harry Clark scooping the £95,150 prize cash.
He and trustworthy Mollie Pearce have been the final remaining gamers, after each voted to eradicate trustworthy Jaz Singh.
British military engineer Harry stated: “My legs are shaking. I simply received £95,000.
“I underestimated this massively, you come right here and there is 22 wonderful individuals, and from the off I have been a traitor.”
He joked: “I’ve had sufficient of being naughty and being unhealthy, as a result of that was subsequent degree.”
“I did not know I might lie that properly and stick with it”. Harry informed BBC Breakfast after the ultimate aired.
“The primary couple of days I used to be struggling, since you’re mendacity to individuals and constructing relationships out of a lie. It was simply mad.”
Harry had been a traitor for the reason that first episode, however went largely undetected all through the collection.
As Mollie did not determine Harry as a traitor regardless of Jaz voting to banish him, she didn’t win any of the prize cash.
Harry got here near being voted out himself as the ultimate three had a showdown across the hearth within the Scottish citadel.
Viewers watched as incapacity mannequin Mollie started to put in writing his title down for banishment, earlier than switching to account supervisor Jaz.
Harry stated his “legs have been shaking” as he was named the winner of The Traitors
After the revelation that Harry was a traitor, Mollie swore and stormed out of the room.
Mollie, who had turn into shut mates with Harry because the collection developed, later stated: “I wrote Harry’s title down first, and I checked out him, and I simply could not do it, I actually trusted him, so I modified it.
“He performed a superb recreation, so truthful play to him.”
After his victory, Harry stated: “I got here right here for my household, my family members, they’re my motivation.
“They’re the rationale I’m going on in life, and I am unable to wait to ring them and be like, I’ve simply received £95,000. It makes me excited inside proper now.
“I really feel I can breathe, as a result of I am simply me once more, I am Harry once more.
“My household know I am a very good man, so to everybody else, if you happen to do not assume I am a very good man, I promise you I’m.”
Devoted Mollie Pearce stated Harry had performed an “glorious recreation”
Referring to fellow finalist Mollie, he stated: “She’s crying. Mollie is the rationale I am right here. I would like to realize her belief again, I do not know if it is doable however I’ll attempt my hardest.”
Talking on the spin-off present Traitors Uncloaked on Friday, Harry stated it had been the “hardest factor ever” to confess the reality to his buddy.
“If you’re in there you assume you are simply having a blast, particularly once you’re a traitor, after which once you’re constructing real connections, it felt like we have been there for years – and when it got here to the top I wished to say I used to be a trustworthy to make Mollie pleased, however I could not,” he stated.
Mollie, additionally showing on the visible podcast on Friday, confirmed she and Harry have been mates once more – after vowing within the closing that she wouldn’t converse to him once more if he have been a traitor.
She known as Harry’s revelation a “huge shock” however stated: “I feel he performed a tremendous recreation, I am unable to hate him eternally.”
Mollie informed BBC Breakfast that Harry had promised her a vacation and stated she was “fairly pleased with that”.
“It was a recreation on the finish of the day, all of us signed up for it,” she added.
However she admitted she selected “the unsuitable individual to belief”.
Harry additionally stated watching the present again was extra aggravating than participating – as he didn’t realise how shut fellow contestant Jaz got here to discovering his identification.
Account supervisor Jaz, who was banished on the eleventh hour after placing Harry’s title on his slate, known as him a “baby-faced murderer”.
Jaz, known as “Jazatha Christie” on social media due to his sleuthing abilities, informed the BBC that the ending was a “tough capsule to swallow” however the group had “recovered”.
He stated he was initially “dying to be a traitor” and put his detection abilities all the way down to being “hyper-vigilant” and never getting too near anybody.
Earlier on within the closing episode, veterinary nurse Evie Morrison was banished on the closing roundtable, and revealed that she was a trustworthy.
One other traitor, insurance coverage dealer Andrew Jenkins, was then banished because the remaining 4 contestants gathered across the hearth.
There have been six traitors in complete all through the collection – however Ross, Paul, Ash and Miles have been banished at an earlier stage.
The fact collection has been an enormous hit for the BBC as soon as once more, with a number of episodes reaching an viewers of greater than six million, together with catch-up.
Over 12 episodes, viewers watched because the faithfuls tried to work out who the traitors have been.
Harry (second left) received after he and Mollie (second proper) voted out Jaz Singh (centre)
The traitors murdered one in all their fellow rivals every night time. If the traitors had been efficiently banished, then the remaining faithfuls would have received the cash.
Celebrating with host Claudia Winkleman, he declared: “I am the perfect traitor on this planet,” earlier than including: “I hope Mollie did not hear that.”
‘Tv at its best’
Viewers praised the present on social media because the second collection drew to a detailed.
“Truthfully,” added Ariadne Griffin, “give Mollie a Bafta as a result of she is giving the dramatic actuality TV efficiency of a lifetime proper now.”
Claudia Winkelman returned to host the second collection, filmed in Ardross Citadel in Scotland
“Claudia, the gamers, the producers, the stylists… everybody concerned must take a bow. Tv at its best and I am already counting all the way down to The Traitors 2025.”
Radio 2 breakfast host Zoe Ball described the collection as an “wonderful three weeks of telly”, including: “I’ll miss it, however at the least I can get some early nights now!”
And TV producer Andy McLellan said the British model of the present labored so properly as a result of common members of the general public have been used as contestants fairly than celebrities.
“A lot of the worldwide ones have celebs they usually’re not almost on the identical degree,” he stated. “Our model’s nice success is rooted within the normality of its casting.”
Claudia Winkleman might be joined by finalists at 10:00 on BBC Radio 2 for a debrief on what went on in final night time’s present.