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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Michael Hogan

Is Jessie dating Jack? Is Fiona Reece’s mum? How everyone might be related on The Traitors

Family Tree of series 4 Traitors.
Who is related to who in the castle? The Traitors, series 4. Photograph: BBC

It’s a tangled web of intrigue in those castle corridors. Two hidden relationships have already come to light in the current run of The Traitors. The unjustly banished Judy was revealed to be the mother of Faithful Roxy, before psychologist Ellie confessed that Ross, who’d just been sent packing himself, was her boyfriend.

An increasingly popular fan theory suggests that these covert connections are merely the tip of the treacherous iceberg. Sofa sleuths claim the framed family tree on display in the Ardross Castle lobby – the one the Traitors covertly daubed with red fingerprints to mark candidates for murder – is a hint that everyone in this year’s game has a pre-existing tie to somebody else.

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