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The Traitors’ Theo Mayne ‘shocked’ by Amanda Lovett’s betrayal as she voted to banish him: ‘It was so out of the blue’-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro
Amanda said she trusted him the most just one day earlier.
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Theo Mayne couldn’t believe it when Amanda Lovett chose to banish him (Picture: BBC)
Theo Mayne’s time on The Traitors came to an emotional end – but not without one last twist of the knife.
The cheerleading coach, 26, was banished by his fellow players in episode 9, after they suspected him of being a Traitor.
However, it was, arguably, actual Traitor Amanda Lovett who planted that seed, as she was keen to write his name on her slate.
This brutal moment did cause a lot of confusion since, just one day earlier at the dinner party, Amanda voted for Theo as the person she trusted the most.
So, how did Theo feel to go from her ‘100% most trusted’ to the person she wanted to get rid of, at the drop of a hat?
He told Metro.co.uk that his exit was ‘so out of the blue.’
Amanda chose Theo as the player she trusted the most just one day earlier (Picture: BBC)
Theo also had his suspicions about Traitor Wilfred Webster (Picture: BBC)
‘I can’t hide my emotions on my face, my reactions are what I’m known for in my normal life, my face tells a thousand stories.’
On being voted for by Amanda, he continued: ‘I was so shocked, like: “What?! I was your 100% last night, honey, what are you doing? What’s this?”.
‘It was a shocker because you don’t know who to trust but I had a really, really close bond with Amanda. To have her write my name down was the final straw. I was like, get me on the circle, I’m over it, I’m ready, I’ll tell you all!’
However, he admits he was ‘ready to go’ when the time came, as he refused to ‘justify’ himself any longer by trying to convince the other contestants that he was a Faithful.
The cheerleading coach decided it was the right time for him to leave the game (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert Associates/Ma)
‘I am not justifying myself to these people. No, love. I’m not doing it. I knew I was a Faithful in there, I knew I was 100% authentically myself so I was ready, especially after the dinner the episode before, it felt like a good exit for me.’
His emotional exit, of course, followed a tearful speech at the party, in which Theo thanked his new friends for accepting him as a gay man.
On how he formed his connections with his fellow players, Theo described himself as someone who wears his heart on his sleeve.
Theo went through all the emotions during The Traitors, especially when he was banished (Picture: BBC)
‘What you see is what you get with me. I would’ve found it so hard to be a Traitor because I couldn’t have even trusted myself!
‘I always trusted people until they give me a reason not to trust them. Like with Claire [Barrett], I knew as soon as I met her we would get along really well, and I thought the same with Amanda but, clearly, she was lying!’
However, when it came to second Traitor Wilfred Webster, he was on Theo’s radar due to suspicious body language.
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‘His body language throughout the whole thing, when you’re sitting on your sofa watching him, you realise he was so nervous all the time, especially at the roundtable,’ Theo said.
‘I did call him out on it, I was like, “You’re very, very nervous tonight”, but it told a thousand stories – the same with Amanda! You watch her at breakfast and she’s sipping her tea, but you don’t pick up on it, meanwhile they’re both sitting there sweating.’
The Traitors is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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