The Traitors finale most-watched stay episode in present’s historical past

Warning: This text reveals the end result of The Traitors.

Greater than seven million individuals tuned in for the explosive finale of the third collection of hit BBC collection The Traitors.

The episode was watched stay by a mean viewers of seven.4m on Friday evening, up 1.6m on final 12 months’s closing – making it probably the most watched episode on BBC One within the present’s historical past.

After an intense few weeks, challenge supervisor Jake Brown and former soldier Leanne Quigley gained and can share £94,600 in prize cash.

The viewing figures solely embody these viewers who watched final evening because the programme aired, and don’t embody these watching on BBC iPlayer.

Following the finale, an extra 4.8m tuned in to an prolonged episode of The Traitors: Uncloaked podcast, broadcast on BBC One and Sounds.

Host Ed Gamble was joined by the entire finalists and host Claudia Winkleman – with the remainder of the solid within the viewers – as they reacted to the ultimate episode and revealed all about their time on the present.

In The Traitors, strangers collect in a Scottish citadel for his or her likelihood to win a share of a prize fund, which they add to by finishing missions in the course of the collection.

A handful of contestants, referred to as traitors, choose off their fellow contestants, the devoted, with nightly “murders” – whereas the devoted attempt to work out their id.

But when any traitors stay on the finish of the sport, they take the entire prize pot, leaving the devoted with nothing.

The format was first developed by Dutch producer IDTV and broadcaster RTL, earlier than being delivered to the UK by Studio Lambert in 2022.

The 2 winners revealed their identities as faithfuls after enterprise director Charlotte Berman was banished from the sport, adopted by inside designer Francesca Rowan-Plowden and former British diplomat Alexander Dragonetti.

However solely Charlotte, who adopted a Welsh accent for the collection regardless of not being Welsh, had been a traitor. Francesca later commented on Uncloaked: “I suppose we did not belief one another sufficient”, whereas Alexander noticed the humorous aspect of 4 faithfuls being left, saying it was “completely sensible”.

Talking on BBC Breakfast the morning after the finale, Jake stated the entire expertise “nonetheless looks like a dream”, including: “I am ready to get up.”

Jake, who has cerebral palsy, stated he was grateful for messages from individuals who stated he impressed them.

“Despite the fact that I am disabled, it does not outline me as an individual,” he stated. “However I’m happy with it. It makes me who I’m.”

Leanne stated her family and friends had been “completely made up” for her after her win, including: “It has been a very long time protecting it a secret.”

Former diplomat Alexander stated regardless of on-screen drama: “What you do not have [watching] at house is you’re feeling this relationship between individuals.”

However he added that whereas contestants do bond, “you must throw individuals below the bus”.

Francesca agreed that she had a “sense of paranoia” whereas filming, however watching again on TV she might see conversations she hadn’t been aware about and understood extra about what had occurred.

She stated: “We had a very pretty time collectively and actually bonded.”

Talking of her pretend Welsh accent, Charlotte stated she “dedicated on day one and needed to go together with it”, as if she revealed her actual voice, she would have been banished.