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Who doesn’t love Andrea?
Andrea described her partner as a ‘wonderful woman’ (Picture: BBC)
The Traitors viewers have branded Andrea a ‘gay icon’ after she tearfully opened up about her late partner.
The 72-year-old is a Faithful in BBC One’s murder mystery game, which sees them try and weed out and ‘banish’ the Traitors, before they ‘murder’ them.
Whoever is left in the final has the chance of splitting a cash prize of up to £120,000, but if a Traitor makes it to the end they will take home the entire sum.
To add money to the pot, the Faithfuls and Traitors are put through their paces in challenges and in Tuesday’s instalment of the hit show, they were tasked with rolling barrels up hills.
Reflecting on the painstaking task, Andrea instead expressed how much she was enjoying working as part of a team.
She told viewers: ‘We are actually a great team and it’s lovely to do teamwork. Particularly for me, I mean, I live alone. And coming back is like being at school and being with friends.
Andrea continued: ‘My partner died. We spent 26 years together. She was a wonderful woman. I came out of that saying, “I am a fighter.”
‘And one of the revelations for me being here is to say I really love these people. It’s lovely to be able to feel that at my age.’
Fans were quick to hail Andrea a ‘gay icon,’ as she spoke movingly about her late partner.
Andrea didn’t actually mind rolling the barrel up a hill (Picture: BBC)
‘Omg, Andrea is my gay icon,’ one remarked, while many others all commented on how the reality TV star was the internet’s new ‘gay icon.’
Also in the tense episode, Alex Gray formally rejected The Traitors’ offer to join the dark side, but it doesn’t look like she’s convinced the Faithfuls she’s one of them.
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Explaining her decision to not change sides, the presenter and actor said: ‘I may end up regretting the decision but as a Faithful I believe could stay all the way. For that reason will politely decline the offer.’
Will the tactic pay off though?
The Traitors continues tomorrow at 9pm on BBC One.
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