The Celebrity Traitors France : Season 6 (Spoiler)

The only foreign language Traitors I have watched have been the first two Dutch De Verraders. I have now just watched the 2026 French version Les Traîtres, Season 6. Host Éric Antoine often uses the word Machiavellian as he laughed with a sinister cackle. Apparently, he's not usually like that. 

The challenges are somewhat different from those found in English language ones. The Traitors hated his visits as he would always have difficult assignments or introduce risks that could expose them. It mattered not.

Amazingly, no Traitors were recruited. Only one was eliminated, the confrontational Fatou. She stayed so long as people suspected her but were frightened to challenge her. They repeatedly admitted so. The other two original Traitors went the whole way to victory. I can't recall a series with no Traitor recruits before. 

One faithful did challenge Fatou, Cindy. She went after her but couldn't muster much support. Cindy was one of the best Faithfuls I have seen, surrounded by an incompetent group of supposed Traitor hunters. 

The best Faithful there, but seldom listened to. The two remaining Traitors murdered her before she could get them too. Perhaps she was too open, not persuasive enough. She didn't form alliances either. Like I said, it wouldn't have mattered. 

Simply put, the Faithfuls were poor. Axel was the worst Faithful imaginable. Manipulated like a puppet, he helped the two remaining Traitors negotiate the last rounds successfully. When there were five players left, one or more had to be Traitors. Yet when the next two players were banished and both declared they were faithful, it was obvious there were Traitors still in the game. 

He was so convinced the ones he trusted were Faithful that simple maths failed him. Voting off the last obvious Faithful Maud at the instruction of puppet master Issa ended Axel's last hope. Of course, it was too late with only three left and two of them Traitors. 

But Axel still thought the last three were Faithfuls. He was gobsmacked when he found out he wasn't one of the winners. He later said, "La France ne va pas comprendre." (France is not going to understand.) Neither did we.

Play on Words

I'm married to a very tall woman whom I admire and rely on greatly. You could say I look up to her. 

I have been watching a TV series on vertically challenged people. It hasn't taken much time, as they are short stories.

My wife took a pleat out of a dress and asked what I thought. I said it looked depleted. 

My partner and I had an argument on the dance floor. She said the disagreement was all my fault, but I said it takes two to tango.

I asked a relative how they managed to cheat me out of my inheritance. They replied, "Where there's a Will, there's a way." 

The UK Celebrity Traitors: Season 2 (Spoiler)

This series had some incidents that are unique to the Traitor TV Series that I have seen. 

Incident 1: Richard E Grant was so excited at being made a Traitor that when he walked into the bar room, on being asked if he was a Traitor, he said yes. Not once but more than once. He eventually realised what he had done and tried to play it down, but he couldn't and was the first round table banishment. 

Incident 2: Ross Kemp at the very first challenge had a hat put on him in fun, but he was convinced he'd been murdered in plain sight. Later, his arm was touched and again, thought it was a murder. Both occasions were innocent events. Ironically, he was later murdered in plain sight, being induced to yawn without realising it. 

Incident 3: James Acaster is as honest a man as you will meet, but faced being murdered in episode two or agreeing to become a Traitor. He survived to be the most reluctant Traitor of all time. He was so faithful at heart that he flew under the radar for some time. 

Unfortunately, when someone did challenge him at the round table, he confessed to being a Traitor and told them to banish him. He may have survived had he pretended he was a Faithful, but he couldn't do it. 

It still looked like the Traitors would win, with two cunning members still undetected. However, they mistakenly didn't banish Faithful Sebastian Croft, who took the Faithfuls to a surprise victory. 

One sad late twist was Romesh Ranganathan at the end suspected James Blunt to be a Traitor over an innocuous comment. James was taken aback and then suspected Romesh as a Traitor for suspecting him. Romesh realised he was wrong and, along with Sebastian, decided to end the game. James chose to play on to banish Romesh, but was himself banished. The last three Faithfuls became two and took the win.