It was a very emotional roundtable for The Traitors contestants on Friday, as the final eight players were decided.
Dr Ellie Buckley, 33, broke down in tears as she received the most votes and was banished, but left the group shocked with her final speech.
Along with announcing she is a Faithful, psychologist Ellie revealed that she is in a relationship with Ross Garshong, 37, who has already been voted off the BBC show.
‘I do have a confession I’d like to make before I go. I didn’t come in here alone. I actually came in with my boyfriend, Ross,’ she said.
Viewers were let in on the secret during episode four, but her fellow contestants were left speechless by the news.
Suspicion about the two knowing each other began the moment they boarded the train in the Scottish Highlands in the first episode on New Year’s Day.
The Traitors contestant Ellie broke down in tears as she was banished during Friday’s emotional roundtable
Dr Ellie Buckley, 33, broke down in tears as she received the most votes and was banished, but left the group shocked with her final speech
The pair, both from London, were sitting opposite one another and were deemed by viewers as being too familiar for supposedly meeting for the first time.
Additionally, a group photo, which includes Ellie and Ross, from a work trip in June 2024 surfaced, confirming that they knew each other before the show.
They have also both posted holiday snaps from the same Tenerife location since filming ended last May.
Ellie shared snaps in a bikini, thought to be taken at the swanky Tivoli La Caleta Tenerife Resort, and captioned them: ‘Some winter sun is good for the soul.’
Ross, who is a fifth-ranked muscle model in Europe, also posted two Instagram snaps on a trip captioned: ‘Suns out, guns out. Holiday gains in Tenerife! Quick question – do you train on holiday?’
Ross became the third contestant to be banished from Ardross Castle after fellow players grew suspicious of him because he knew contestant Netty Österberg, 42.
The pair revealed they had mutual friends when they both lived in London, but hadn’t seen each other in over 10 years, so the reunion came as a surprise to both.
When conducting background checks, BBC bosses found that Netty and Ross followed each other on social media, but the link was tenuous, and they didn’t want to not cast them because of it.
Along with announcing she is a Faithful, Ellie revealed that she is in a relationship with Ross Garshong, 37, who has already been voted off the BBC show.
Ross said he had been ‘dealt a bad hand’ after coming under suspicion on day one for knowing Netty Österberg, 42
Mike Cotton, Creative Director at Studio Lambert, told the Daily Mail that neither player was warned ahead of the opening scene, as they wanted to watch their natural reaction on-screen for the first time and see how it played out in the game.
Netty later became the first player ‘murdered’ in the game, which soon cast suspicion on Ross, with Traitors Stephen Libby, 32, Rachel Duffy, 42, and Hugo Bailey, 51, taking the opportunity to frame him.
Elsewhere during Friday’s episode, Jessie Roux was brutally murdered by the Traitors, leaving only eight contestants in the competition.
Then the episode ended with Traitors Rachel and Stephen having to pick a Faithful to give the ceremonial dagger to.
Whoever possesses the dagger will get a double vote at the next roundtable, and with the final only days away, it could change the game.
