Ardross Fort in Scotland is an integral a part of The Traitors. The constructing serves because the setting for the Peacock collection, with contestants gathering there for meals and downtime between challenges.
However do they really sleep within the citadel? The times finish with forged members heading up the steps and seemingly going to their respective rooms within the massive citadel, however there’s greater than meets the attention. Scroll down for every thing we learn about their residing preparations.
Does The Traitors forged sleep within the citadel?
The reply is not any! Alan Cumming spilled the tea concerning the sleeping scenario forward of Season 1 in 2023. “Spoiler alert: None of us stayed within the citadel,” he informed The Every day Beast.
Nevertheless, he added, “I had a room within the citadel the place I’d get made up and dressed. It had an enormous mattress in it. So I did truly sleep very often, however not in a single day.”
The roundtables and large eating room are within the citadel, although. “The explanation we picked that individual citadel was to host the roundtable room,” govt producer Sam Rees-Jones revealed to Selection.
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Mike Cotton added, “It’s enormous. We use a bit of it. We give them free reign. We’ve taken a wing of the citadel, and that’s their space that they will play the sport inside. They’ve acquired all the skin as effectively. They’re free to roam round. It’s a very previous constructing, and there’s elements which are utterly unrenovated that haven’t been touched for a lot of, a few years. At one level, it was occupied in the course of the warfare by the Navy. It’s fascinating as a result of it’s acquired a lot historical past to it. I can’t estimate the sq. ft, however it’s acquired the potential for 30 bedrooms in actuality. Numerous it’s unconverted.”
The place does The Traitors forged sleep at evening?
In Season 1, the forged members stayed “within the airport lodge within the Iverness airport,” Cumming revealed, including, “How glamorous, you come to Scotland and also you keep within the Iverness airport lodge.” Nevertheless, the host acquired to say “in a bit of home in Iverness,” he stated.
Cotton was much less forthcoming concerning the specifics of the sleeping preparations forward of Season 2. “I can’t reply [that],” he admitted. “The largest factor is that the present depends completely on the secrecy of the traitors, and by that, I imply we have now to be actually cautious that the trustworthy don’t know who the traitors are. It’s an enormous navy operation every evening to get the trustworthy to mattress in particular person rooms and get the traitors again out to have their assembly. And as quickly as we begin speaking concerning the particulars of how they sleep and the place they sleep, it will unravel any potential future seasons.”
Season 1 contestant Wilfred Webster additionally confirmed that forged member are “blindfolded till they get to wherever they’re staying.”
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