The Traitors' Wilfred Webster 'emotional' after weeks of backstabbing as final five revealed

22.12.2022 - 15:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk

Everyone battling for £120,000 in a Cluedo meets Lord Of The Flies meets I’m A Celebrity game show?

It sounded bizarre, a complex murder mystery weekend, but BBC1’s latest reality show Traitors has become an end-of-year hit.

With secret hooded meetings, “killings”, banishments and tearful players, the show got four million in the ratings for its first episode.

In tonight’s final outing, the last three “faithfuls” will finally learn the identity of the remaining original “traitor” Wilfred Webster, 28.

And they'll discover the plight of Kieran Tompsett, 42, who viewers will know was forced to give up his role as a "faithful" in Wednesday's penultimate episode, or face being "murdered" at the last knockings.

But will the "faithfuls" find out before the game ends, earning them the prize pot to share between them?

Or will Wilf manage to deceive them and walk away with all the money?

After weeks of plotting “murders”, backstabbing and lying, it’s been a far tougher challenge than he expected.

The fundraiser, from London, said: “I really didn’t expect myself to be as emotional but you spend so many hours with these people and really get to know everything about them.

“It’s hard knowing that the people I really care about and get on with are going to have to find out who I am. I am going to have to try to backstab them.” Wilf had already played a part in the demise of traitors but says that he did it to open a gym and safe space for youngsters, as well as start a counselling and psychology degree.

But that does not ease the guilt. He added: “We can’t end this in good spirits for all five of us.

“That’s the struggle for me. Knowing that I have to do them over at some point.”

Among those he has deceived is his best pal on the show, comic