Inside BBC The Traitors' Evie's life off screen in Inverness with wife Kayleigh and adorable pooches
26.01.2024 - 17:43
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
The Traitors star Evie Morrison is “so proud” to be the last Scot standing in the final five as the BBC show reaches its nail-biting climax tonight.
The Inverness vet nurse, who lives just 30 miles from Ardross Castle where the show is filmed, has kept a pretty low profile over the tense episodes of season two but it was a good tactic to have as she’s made it to the end and is in with a chance of bagging the £75k cash prize on offer.
Ahead of her appearance on the show, Evie told the BBC she had no game plan, but she did admit she hoped to be a ‘Traitor’ - a dream which never came to fruition, and she reckoned that she’d use her experience off screen to compete.
Evie said: “I want to be a Traitor. I think I would make a good Traitor because I look like such a Faithful. I don’t think people think I’m very mischievous, but I think that shows that I’d be really be good at it. So, I think my gameplan is to let people believe those preconceptions of me, I’m blonde and I’ve got the dimples, and I work with animals and I’m sweet.
"But there is a bit of an edge to me, and it’s an edge that has actually been carved out by my career, by veterinary nursing, because it is so tough. It’s really difficult, there are a lot of emotional tolls and there’s a lot of adapting to environments, stress, long hours, everything. The Traitors is a psychological pressure cooker, but I honestly do think you could apply that to working at the vets, you really could.”
During Thursday’s dramatic episode, which saw new ‘Traitor’ Ross voted off after just 24 hours of him being selected for the dark side, Evie revealed she was hoping to buy a new house if she got any winnings.
She took to Twitter shortly after to introduce her wife Kayleigh Deane and their