Celebrity Traitors star Joanne McNally sparks speculation she's a 'Secret Traitor': 'That would be an amazing twist'
Could they be on to something?Joanne McNally has sparked Celebrity Traitors speculation, with fans wondering whether she could secretly be playing as a Traitor.
Reddit users have seized on her voting record and a comment about a murder task.
Celebrity Traitors fans speculate over ‘Secret Traitor’
With the second series halfway through, some are imagining a dramatic banishment, with the comedian revealing a hidden role instead of declaring herself a Faithful.
“Has she been made a Traitor and we the audience don’t know yet?” a viewer asked.
One Reddit user welcomed the idea: “That would be an amazing twist to be fair.”
“Imagine if she’s banished and everyone’s expecting her to say Faithful and she mic drops with Traitor. Suddenly defending Richard and Hannah makes sense. The audience for years has been asking for an edit where they don’t know who the traitors are and we have to work it out ourselves,” they continued.
However, other viewers weren’t convinced her behaviour pointed to anything more than an unpredictable approach to the game.
One person wrote: “Whilst I would love this because I love Joanne, I’m pretty sure she’s just being herself as a chaotic Faithful.”
In response, someone said: “But maybe she’s a chaotic Faithful. So as the twist, we don’t have a Secret Traitor, but we have a Faithful with a secret mission to cause chaos?”
Joanne’s Celebrity Traitors voting clue
According to The Sun, Joanne alone has not voted for either of the two Traitors already caught. Those players were Richard E. Grant and Professor Hannah Fry.
That record has prompted some fans to suggest an extra Traitor could be operating without viewers knowing.
One Reddit poster wondered whether a hidden role might prevent Joanne from voting to banish another Traitor. They suggested such a restriction could explain voting choices that otherwise seemed puzzling to them.
Claudia Winkleman welcomed 21 celebrities into the game earlier this month. The current Traitors are Maya Jama, James Acaster and King Kenny.
Joanne’s roundtable remark adds to speculation
Joanne’s other supposed clue came during a roundtable discussion about the previous night’s murder task.
Ross Kemp, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan had faced the possibility of being murdered face-to-face. Joanne had not been selected for that challenge.
Yet, discussing the experience, she said: “It was horrible, it was… I mean I wasn’t there.”
One fan suggested she might have watched the task from a concealed location, despite not being among those chosen.
That interpretation connects the remark to the secret-role theory, but it does not establish that she witnessed the challenge.
The roundtable ultimately ended with Hannah being banished and revealed as a Traitor, while Joanne remained in the game.
For now, the idea of Joanne having an undisclosed role remains viewer speculation, not a confirmed Celebrity Traitors twist.
The Celebrity Traitors continues at 8pm on Thursdays and Fridays on BBC One.
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