The Traitors has reached its final days, meaning the deceit and betrayal have only ramped up.
After Tully Smyth’s murder and Josh Packham’s brutal blindside banishment, four players remain in the finale — Krissy Marsh, Keira Maguire, Kirby Bentley, and Rhys Nicholson.
While you’d expect a game of murder and lies to take a toll on the relationships formed in the manor, the contestants have revealed that their experience has actually been quite the opposite, with Tully telling WHO that a bunch of the cast will be reuniting at Rhys’s comedy club, Comedy Republic, in Melbourne to watch The Traitors finale together.
Tully revealed what else surprised her most about the experience, explaining just how different the filming process was for The Traitors compared to Big Brother.
‘The days are really full-on’
Compared to shows like Big Brother, where it’s “a hidden camera scenario” that contestants can forget about, The Traitors production process involved multiple cameras in your face, all the time.
“The days are really full-on,” Tully said when describing what surprised her about the experience. “Every episode was a day and I think coming off a show like Big Brother where all you do is sit around and chat and bond and connect, I think not having time really to do that was tough for me because that’s how I play my social game.
“I get in with people – I hear about their stories, their hopes, their dreams, their wants – and I think the fact that we didn’t have much time to talk about anything other than strategy in the game, I found that hard purely for myself because I was like, ‘How am I going to bond with you?'”
“If we don’t have time for trauma dumping, how are you going to trust me…and like, where’s the pool?” Tully joked. “When do we get to hang out by the pool?'”
Tully confessed that she struggled trying ‘to remain natural’ with so many cameras
The former Big Brother star also confessed that she quickly realised many of the contestants had experience with this style of close-up and ‘cameras-in-your-face’ filming – experience that she lacked.
“I think not being aware when a camera was on you and trying to continue [was hard],” Tully said. “The first day or so, I’d see a camera guy appear or a camera lens zoom in and I’d look directly down the barrel.
“I wasn’t used to being able to see the cameras in front of me.”
“It’s hard to remain natural,” she admitted. “Also, I mean, come on, I’m an influencer, I’m a content creator, I have been for 13 years.
This aspect of the filming process was something she took a while to get used to, joking that her instinct to always break the fourth wall possibly led to her having less screentime than the other players.
It is my job to look down the camera lens and strike a pose, so it was very hard for me not to.”
Tully added: “I’d be talking to someone looking like Quasimodo (*hunches her back*), and I’d see a cameraman come in, and I’d be (*adjusts posture*), ‘Anyway, as I was saying.’
“And then I wonder why I didn’t get any screen time.”
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‘There were no d–kheads’
With a cast of infamous Australian personalities – where each player hails from a different reality TV world – you know you can expect good entertainment. What audiences didn’t expect was just how much all the players stayed in touch, and have continued to support each other outside of the show.
From resharing Rob Farnham’s content for Daffodil Day for his dad, John Farnham, to promoting Alvin Quah’s post about R U OK? Day, the whole cast has been super “supportive” even after the experience ended, with Tully describing the group chat the whole cast is in and how rare this is for reality TV.
“It was honestly the nicest bunch,” Tully gushed. “And I know that’s such a boring headline that, ‘Oh we all love each other’, but really, there were no dickheads, everyone was lovely.”
“I think I was worried because that’s all fun and games during the year while you wait for the show to air, but sometimes once the show airs and you see what’s been said behind your back or you’re reminded of what happened, it can get a bit tense. But no, everyone’s still so supportive. I just feel really lucky to have played the game with such an amazing cast.”
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