Warning: Spoilers for The Traitors season 2 finale ahead. By the final episode of Peacock’s hit reality show The Traitors, it becomes clear that Trishelle Cannatella was always one season 2’s most Faithful contestants. Throughout the devious murder-mystery game, the Louisiana native—who’s best known for her appearances on The Real World and The Challenge franchise, as well as winning Fear Factor—split her time between contributing her skills to the weekly challenges and working with her clique of “Most Faithful of the Faithful” players to track down Traitors. Despite finding herself directly in the crosshairs of Traitors Parvati Shallow and Phaedra Parks near the end of the game, she outlasted them both and found herself among the final contestants in the running for the $250,000 prize pot in the March 7 finale.
Speaking to Marie Claire, Cannatella recalled that when entering host Alan Cumming’s grand Scottish castle, she was whole-heartedly committed to her competitive "Gamer" attitude. “Every single person [was] my personal competition. It was me against everybody, even [fellow Challenge alums Johnny] Bananas and [Chris] C.T. [Tamburello].” However, her time on The Traitors changed Cannatella in several ways—particularly with how she will approach her future reality show appearances. “There's a time and a place for competition,” she says of the lesson that The Traitors taught her. “You don't have to be in that mode the entire time.”
