The Traitors Australia 2026 is getting juicy! As the faithfuls finally start to catch some of the traitors (you will be missed, Alvin and Alex), the possibility of new faithfuls getting pulled to the dark side has become a reality.
However, as fans predict which of the remaining players will be brought into the turret, they’re also having some serious thoughts about Alex Nation’s heartbreaking banishment – mostly how she handled her final defence.
After AJ’s murder, all eyes were on Alex, and the campaign against her ended up being spearheaded by her close friend, Josh Packham.
The Block star warned Alex that he was going to vote her out that night, and while she entered the round table ready to defend herself, she ended the evening in tears, unable to hide the mental toll that deceiving her friends had taken.
Speaking to WHO, Alex revealed the “mental tax” of being a traitor that audiences may not realise, as well as what it felt like to relive her banishment moment again as she watched the show surrounded by friends and family.
Fans are divided over Alex’s ‘surrender’ at the round table
After Alex didn’t really put up a fight after her name was brought up at the round table, viewers had mixed opinions.
“Wow so disappointed in how Alex completely crumbled,” one fan wrote online.
“In terms of the roundtable, whilst I do think it was a bit of a let-down to see Alex so gruelled and defeated as she practically surrendered,” she said. “I appreciated the glimpse we received into how raw and emotionally charged this game is for the players.”
“It’s human, and that does make it compelling,” a third wrote. “There are cases of Alex-style Traitors who managed to pull it together and have their game face on, or make use of their emotions as a way of deceiving others, but the fun part about The Traitors is you can never be fully sure how each person’s unique journey will turn out.”
Whether fans thought Alex’s exit was “classy” or not, many could see how the role of being a traitor “exhausted” her.
The ‘mental tax’ of the show ‘wore [Alex] down’
Alex revealed exclusively to WHO that lying to her friends on the show was “the hardest part”.
“It’s really hard,” she said. “Josh and I, we were really close from the start, and obviously Tully and I are friends outside of the show. I also got close with Keira. I didn’t anticipate that – that story arc for Keira and I is quite special and quite nice, and super healing.
“But I think [lying to these friends] was the biggest mental tax. I sort of opened my heart up to all these people, and it actually eventually wore me down.”
Alex confessed that in her final moments on the show, she “couldn’t be the bad guy anymore because [she] became too vulnerable, [she] opened up too much and got too close.”
“I resigned to the fact that I was going that night at banishment,” Alex admitted.
The hardest part wasn’t that her friends were writing her name down, but that they still believed she was a faithful up until the last moment.
“They don’t show it, but at the roundtable a lot of them were like, ‘I don’t think you’re a traitor, and I think you’re faithful and you’re just not defending yourself because you want to go home to your kids’,” Alex said. “They still didn’t believe I was a traitor.
“Some of them just thought I had had enough, and I missed my family. They didn’t realise that it was because I was actually a traitor and it was getting too hard.”
‘I’m glad that that’s how I went out’
Despite mixed opinions from fans, Alex revealed that she was glad she went out with vulnerability.
“It was such a nice moment to watch my exit last night,” she said. “I watched it with my mum and my family and my friends at Rhys’ venue in Melbourne.
“And a few of the cast were there as well, so it was a nice send-off for me.
“That Roundtable, watching it back, me and Rob Farnham were sitting next to each other, and we were both crying watching it.
“But I think it was a nice moment. I’m glad that’s how I went out.”
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