The Traitors Podcast: Unpacking Diane Carson's Shocking 'Death'

This episode contains spoilers from this year’s series and previous series of The Traitors (UK) Diane Carson featured in the second series of the BBC’s The Traitors, and had one of the most memorable “deaths” on the show after being poisoned by one of the game’s traitors with a glass of fizzy rosé. “I mean, my God, I’m from Ireland. I don’t mind a wee glass of fizz,” Diane tells Helen Pidd. The next day she was out of the game. “Basically the coffin lid was smacked down hard on the person who was murdered, and that was me.” Diane tells Helen why she applied for the reality TV show with her son, Ross, and how hard it is to spot a traitor when you are on the show. The show is now on its fourth series, and millions of people tune in to watch each episode. How have the show’s producers managed to keep viewers hooked? “There’s now much more control and oversight of the traitors and how much they can do,” Elle Hunt, a feature writer for the Guardian and a huge fan of The Traitors, tells Helen Pidd. “It’s very rare that the traitors have their pick of all the faithfuls to kill, which means that they can’t just go for the smart ones who were on to them, which has been the case in previous seasons, with the effect that the more trusting or naive faithfuls are the only ones that make it to the end, which can be a little bit frustrating if you want to see someone rewarded for their gameplay and acumen.”