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Krissy Marsh is a force to be reckoned with. Not only is she an icon of The Real Housewives of Sydney, but she’s also a successful entrepreneur and business woman – a side of her that fans definitely noticed peep through during her fiery round tables on The Traitors Australia 2026, where anyone who came for her quickly found themselves getting it thrown right back at them. That’s business!
But this Grand Finale seemed to bring out all the emotions, especially for Krissy who was vulnerable in a way we hadn’t seen before.
During their final challenge, we saw Krissy being put in a room where she had to recall every contestant who has left the game in the correct order. The catch was that each time she’d get someone wrong, her hair was cut by a cloaked henchman.
She found her strength to continue with the challenge by thinking of her kids, and just how proud she’d make them by pushing forward.
My kids are ‘so proud’
Even speaking to WHO about the challenge after the episode aired is enough to bring the emotions flooding back. And while it was traitor Kirby Bentley who ended up taking home the $200,600 grand prize, she still went home to a very happy household.
“It gets me emotional talking about it. They’re so proud,” she tells us while tearing up.
“I’m really proud of it. I’m proud that I didn’t give up. I’ve got to go to a luncheon after this. I don’t want to ruin my makeup for God’s sakes. Give me another sip of champagne so I don’t cry because I’m so thirsty!” she quips.
And despite all she’s accomplished so far both on and off telly, she stands firm in saying that the lengths she achieved on this season of The Traitors is a standout.
“I think that is for me a moment in my life, in my career – I’ve been in the Financial Review for selling my business, I’ve been in every major publication. I’ve done so much. But this is a moment in my life – other than my three kids, who I think are my greatest achievement – that’ll go down as one of my greatest achievements,” she says.
“Not quitting in that moment of pressure and continuing through and playing the game, you know, not to the best of my ability, but to the best of my faithfulness, which is how I live my life. I live my life as a faithful, and I’m one of those people that they probably saw. I’m very black and I’m very white. I don’t have a lot of grey in my life, and I think that comes out in the show, and that’s how I’ll continue to live my life.”
Said like a true boss, Krissy!
‘My husband never watches my shows, but I’m forcing him to watch this one’
There is one person, however, who is yet to witness Krissy’s most vulnerable scene.
“My husband very rarely watches anything I’m ever on, but you know what,” she tells us. “I’m actually going to force him on the weekend to sit down and look at that great moment of mine.”
“He’s got to watch something, and if that’s going to be a moment he watches, I want him to see my perseverance.”
It carries even more meaning given how cut off Krissy was from home while filming. With contestants unable to use their phones or speak to their families during the 13-day shoot, she says there was little opportunity to step outside the game once the pressure started building.
“You don’t have a phone, you don’t speak to your family, you are in the game for 13 days straight,” she explains.
The Traitors producers don’t have any input behind the scenes: ‘what you see is what you get’
Having spent years in reality television, Krissy knows better than most what goes on once the cameras start rolling. But she says The Traitors felt worlds away from the environment she was used to on The Real Housewives of Sydney.
“I think coming out of the Real Housewives reality world, where it’s so toxic, you come together for a press day, and everyone’s competing against each other,” she says. “There’s a group over there being nasty, and there’s a group over there being nasty.”
That couldn’t have been further from her experience with her fellow Traitors castmates.
“We all just got there and we’re doing TikToks and we’re dancing and we’re all having a ball,” she says.
And according to Krissy, what viewers saw unfold on screen was far less manipulated than people might expect from reality TV – especially one as treacherous as this one.
“You’re actually looking at a real-life situation in real time,” she explains. “You’re looking through a lens at this little community within the world, and that’s what I think makes this show so successful.”
“You do not have a producer once saying, ‘Do this,’ or ‘Do that,’ or ‘Say this,’ or ‘Say that.’ Not once. Not once setting up a situation, not once putting you in a car with someone.”
Even her sister struggled to believe just how little interference there was behind the scenes.
“I was watching with my sister and she’s like, ‘Oh, someone would have put you in the car with them,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I promise,’” Krissy says.
“It’s like the kindergarten playground. ‘Oh, pick me to go in your car.’ It’s like that.”
Luckily, she didn’t have too many issues with slotting right into anyone’s car with this cast, who she emphasises her adoration for.
“I can honestly say, from the bottom of my heart, there is no one I wouldn’t want there,” she says. “I really did love being with everyone.”
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