One fan of The Traitors has shared her theory on TikTok about fake Welsh player Charlotte. This year’s instalment of hit BBC gameshow fronted by Claudia Winkleman has seen a fair bit of Welsh representation on our screens.
In the third series of the popular psychological adventure competition we’ve seen Elen and Leanne, both from north Wales, compete in the show as Faithfuls. Another contender, who is also a Faithful, has a Welsh connection and has used this link as part of her game plan.
The 32-year-old business director Charlotte from London has a Welsh mum, but was born and raised in England. In the first episode of the BBC series, Charlotte revealed she would be adopting a fake Abergavenny accent during the show. For the latest TV & Showbiz news, sign up to our newsletter.
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The contestant revealed that she hoped that adopting a fake Welsh accent would make her “more trustworthy” with her other contenders. Her game plan has seemingly worked well so far, with neither Leanne or Elen realising her accent is fake during the show. But many have questioned why Charlotte has adopted a fake Welsh accent on the game show, with one fan on X branding it as a “hilariously unnecessary lie”.
And one TikToker has revealed that she thinks there is more to Charlotte’s fake Welsh accent than just being “more trustworthy” to her fellow contestants. Martha Collison revealed she believed that Charlotte’s chosen game plan was to distance herself from another contestant – Alexander.
The 38-year-old former diplomat is from London. He originally appeared in the first episode, but then sacrificed his position in a bid to help his fellow contestants to win up to £10,000 in their first mission in the game. A few episodes later however, Alexander returned with his fellow contestants, who also sacrificed themselves – Jack and Fozia.
Those who had already been in the castle for a week had to save two out of the three contestants in the challenge, which ended with Alexander and Fozia both being freed from their cages and able to return as Faithfuls in the competition show. Alexander and Fozia were able to give their shield to two contestants in the episode.
According to Martha, she loved looking for secret relationships on the show, and believed she had found one. She said: “I love looking for a secret relationship. I am a BBC girly myself and have appeared on a BBC TV show. I like to think I have absolutely no qualifications to start this out, but I have to think I’ve got a tiny bit of an edge. Anyway, I digress, so I think that fake Welsh Charlotte and diplomat Alexander are an undercover couple and there are a few reasons why I think this.
“Some of them valid, some of them a little bit tenuous. Most compelling reason is that I don’t think you would pretend to be Welsh on a show like The Traitors unless there was another reason, other than just that Welsh is really trustworthy. I think you’d have to have a reason.
“A good reason would be you’re trying to disassociate your accent from someone else in the group and I would say that Charlotte and Alexander have the most similar accents. They’re both from London, they’re both a similar age, these are some circumstantial evidence that I think is compelling.”
She then continued and said: “And then obviously, Alexander’s back. When he was in his hanging cage set up in the last episode, he said something that was a bit weird, he said: ‘Oh, Charlotte’, she was putting some money in his little pot, and he said something along the lines of: ‘Oh hello, I don’t know you’, which I thought that’s a bit weird because you don’t know any of these people.
“Why would you say that specifically and why would they include that in the edits specifically? And then, later on in the episode, they include a clip of Alexander and Charlotte having a conversation, where she looks completely different to how she has looked up until now, she’s like all smiley and she can’t look him in the eye and I think something’s up.”
The video has so far garnered 32k likes on TikTok and over 460 comments, with various TikTokers sharing their opinions and theories. One TikToker believed that Charlotte and Alexander were in fact siblings as “they look alike”, while another TikToker said that her partner was “convinced everyone is paired up in some way”.
Another TikToker responded to the video with: “Nah cos they would have revealed it to the viewers”, while another TikToker responded to the comment saying: “They didn’t reveal Diane and Ross were related straight away, did they?”. Others shared their own theories of other pairs that were in fact connected, including Leanne and Leon as a couple, Lisa and Linda as wives, Francesca and Freddie as mother and son.
But one TikToker didn’t believe there were any more connections, other than Armani, who was banished as a Traitor, and her sister Maia, who was murdered as a Faithful the same night as her sister’s banishment. The TikToker said: “Nah, Charlotte just wanted a shield. I don’t think there are any more secret relationships now – it was just the sisters. We’re 6 eps in now, we’d know by now”.
The Traitors will be aired from Wednesday to Friday at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.