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After three weeks of treachery and deceit, Faithful Jack Butler made it all the way to The Traitors series 4 final, but just missed out on scooping the cash prize.
The personal trainer was betrayed in the final moments of the endgame by Rachel Duffy and his close ally Stephen Libby, with producers forced to step in and calm him down.
Reflecting on the tense moment after it aired to the public on Friday night, Jack told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The first ten minutes after it happened, I was absolutely steaming.
‘I was so angry and I got pulled into a room with the producers and I was calmed down a little bit.
‘Then I was just looking forward to going home and seeing my partner and my family. It’s like 10 minutes of anger and then you’re like hang on, it’s not actually life or death. Honestly, it’s such a psychological game and you’ve gone through all these weeks of who can I trust?
‘I think Stephen really acted fantastically as like putting on the facade of being a faithful in the earlier episodes. We really clicked and we get on so well. We’re very similar. And I just thought he’s got to be a Faithful because he’s terrified just like me. He doesn’t want to be murdered.
The Traitors finalist Jack Butler has revealed that producers were forced to step in and ‘calm him down’ after his furious reaction to being banished
The personal trainer was betrayed in the final moments of the endgame by Rachel Duffy and his close ally Stephen Libby
‘It was only at the end when he turned his slate around with my name. But it’s a testament to how much of a fantastic game he played. And Rachel as well. They were both phenomenal. They absolutely deserved it. I am genuinely really happy for both of them.’
Fans were convinced Jack had won the show because he shared that if he wins the prize money he would like to put a deposit down on a house and propose to his girlfriend, Kay.
Despite not winning the £95,750, Jack popped the question in Santorini in July, two months after the series was filmed in Scotland.
Now, Jack has revealed how he proposed and why he almost never got down on one knee.
He shared: ‘I took Kay on a yacht tour around the island. The whole crew were in on the surprise. They said look we’ll stop near the volcano and we’ll pretend we’re taking pictures of you and then you can hide it in your pocket.
‘We got about halfway around the cruise and it was really rocky on the water and I got horrific motion sickness to the point where I was at the back end of the boat with a bucket and they were like, ‘Are you going to do it or call it off?’
‘But they stopped the boat and my stomach settled and it all went perfectly!’
Jack added that he will be inviting all of his Traitors co-stars to the wedding, and jokingly added that Stephen and Rachel can ‘chip in’.
Traitors Rachel and Stephen were left overwhelmed with emotion as host Claudia Winkleman announced they had won the game
Fans were convinced Jack had won the show because he shared that if he wins the prize money he would like to put a deposit down on a house and propose to his girlfriend, Kay
During the endgame, the group ultimately chose to banish Faraaz first, before voting to eliminate Jack in a dramatic second round of banishment.
Traitors Rachel and Stephen were left overwhelmed with emotion as host Claudia Winkleman announced they had won the game.
The duo then celebrated their victory with glasses of bubbly as they reflected on their unforgettable time on the show.
The series finale averaged 9.4m with a peak of 9.6m and an audience share of 54.9%.
This is the biggest overnight audience across the market since the final episode of The Celebrity Traitors in November 2025 and makes it the most watched overnight audience of the civilian version of the series ever.
