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The Traitors Ireland's Michelle: 'I think the Faithfuls will step up their game'

The Traitors Ireland contestant Michele: "I think there's going to be a big change, especially after Linda's speech. People are going to say, 'Cop on now, we need to start playing the game.'"
The Traitors Ireland contestant Michele: "I think there's going to be a big change, especially after Linda's speech. People are going to say, 'Cop on now, we need to start playing the game.'"

The Traitors Ireland star Michele has said she think the Faithful will "step up their game" after failing to catch any Traitors, and banishing three of their own, in the show's first four episodes.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Traitors Ireland

Michele, who was killed by Traitors Katelyn, Paudie and Eamon on Sunday night, said she always thought Katelyn was a Traitor.

"I had it in my head from the beginning that it was Katelyn, I always had her in my head," she said.

"But when I went to bring it up, everyone who had suspicions of her had already gone to her and she had her answer ready. So I knew there was no point bringing it to the table."

The Traitors Ireland Katelyn
Michele said she should have brought up her doubts about Katelyn sooner

"Regardless if I felt I would have been murdered on that first night I do think I should have just turned around and said 'Katelyn, I think it's you'," Michele continued. "I kind of do regret that but hindsight's a great thing."

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Meanwhile, banished contestant Linda, who had voiced her suspicions of Katelyn at a heated roundtable, said it was "frustrating" to feel her voice hadn't been heard.

"It is frustrating, especially from my point of view, I felt like the evidence brought against me wasn't very compelling, I don't think it made logical sense, whereas I thought my evidence against Katelyn was more substantial," she said.

"At this stage of the game there still is a lot of bandwagon-effect, people tend to to jump on a couple of names. The way the Traitors are playing the game is sewing seeds of chaos and it's definitely working because people are scrambling, and people are panicking and aren't listening to logic.

"So it is frustrating when you bring a name to the table and you feel you aren't being fully listened to, but at the end of the day this is the nature of the roundtable."

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Linda said it was "frustrating" to be eliminated as "the evidence brought against me wasn't very compelling"

As for how well they think the Traitors are faring thus far, Michele said: "I think at this stage the Traitors are doing a good job.

"They are slipping up here and there and as you can see they're beginning to turn on each other. I think the Faithfuls will step up their game.

"Up until now, it might have been a case of following the bandwagon and people trying to save themselves. I think there's going to be a big change, especially after Linda's speech.

"People are going to say, 'Cop on now, we need to start playing the game.'"

"I think there's definitely a degree of the Faithful not being perceptive enough," Linda continued. "The dissonance within the Traitors might be the start of their downfall."

The Traitors banish Michelle
Linda said the "dissonance within the Traitors might be the start of their downfall"

"I think as a Traitor you should stick together as much as you can until the Faithfuls figure out who you are," Michele added.

"What they're doing at the moment, it just seems like they're picking on poor Paudie. If it was me as a Traitor, I wouldn't do that."

"To be honest I think the coin is up in the air, it's very difficult to see what way it's going to go," Linda mused. "One of them is going to go soon and that's going to be the catalyst for the breakdown of the Traitors."

The Traitors Ireland continues at 9:35pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, followed directly by The Traitors Ireland: Uncloaked.

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