Who wins the prize for most shocking admission?

The Traitors season 4 cast members reveal most traitorous things they’ve ever done (exclusive)

Who wins the prize for most shocking admission?

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January 6, 2026 10:15 a.m. ET

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Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho, Ian Terry, Monét X Change on 'The Traitors' season 4. Credit:

Sam McElwee/Peacock

Deceit! Lies! Betrayal! All that and more is coming our way when season 4 of *The Traitors* debuts Thursday on Peacock, as a band of undercover Traitors will be fibbing right to the faces of the people they plan on secretly murdering each and every night. WHAT MONSTERS!

Who is the best trained to pull off such mischief and mayhem as a Traitor? We already asked the entire season 4 cast before filming began to give us their pitch for why they should be tapped (literally) by host Alan Cumming as Traitors upon entering the castle. But we also decided to test out their credentials by asking another diabolical question: What is the most traitorous thing you’ve ever done?

Here’s how they answered…

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Candiace Dillard Bassett

Candice Dillard Bassett on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

The most traitorous thing I’ve ever done? Why would I tell y’all that? A traitor never tells her secrets.

Caroline Stanbury

Caroline Stanbury on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

Oh my god, it’s really bad. He’s gonna kill me for saying this. I had to fire my own father. He worked for me for a few years and I had to let him go myself.

Colton Underwood

Colton Underwood on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I would probably say the public and people who have watched my show would tell me that the most traitorous thing I’ve ever done is go on *The Bachelor* as a closeted man. But I would say that they also need to realize that that is the most traitorous thing that I’ve done to myself too, so I would say that’s the answer probably.

Donna Kelce on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

That I can mention? Oh, dear, I don’t even know if I can talk about it. But at times you trick people just because it’s fun to do. And we’ll leave it at that.

Dorinda Medley

Dorinda Medley on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

When I think about the question of what is the most traitorous thing I’ve ever done, it’s very difficult for me because I make mistakes, but I’m not really a traitor in life. I’m very loyal and I’m frightened easily so I fear getting in trouble my whole life. I think it’s a Catholic thing. I’m afraid of getting in trouble. I can always hear my mother, like “Oh, you better not do that, you’re gonna get in big trouble.” But I will always call out someone who is wrong or dishonest. I can’t stand a faker. I'm very good at calling out a faker or people who are dishonest — I can see it a mile away. I’m very innate like that.

Eric Nam on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

Maybe I need to be meaner. Do I need to be more mischievous with my life? When I’m on the tour bus, we play a lot of pranks on each other — a lot of scaring, a lot of jumping out of places, a lot of little surprises in people’s bunks, and really enjoying it whenever it goes successfully. It is a constant game of cat and mouse, *Tom and Jerry* game that we play on the tour bus.

Ian Terry on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

On *Big Brother*, I screwed over my coach on the first season I was on, and that was pretty traitorous, I would say. That one still hurts a little bit.

Johnny Weir on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I’d say the most traitorous thing I’ve done is have relatively easy access to Birkin bags. Sorry, I know there are people on lists, but they are my favorite thing, my favorite investment, and I will fight tooth and nail for them. And generally, I try not to go through life building up too many lies or a stack of situations where I’ve created enemies because life’s too short.

Kristen Kish

Kristen Kish on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

The most traitorous thing that I ever did was not living my true authentic life and dating far too many men before I embraced my gayness. The most traitorous thing I’ve ever done is pretend to be straight.

Lisa Rinna on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

Oh god, there’s so many, there’s so many traitorous things that I’ve done. I would say probably my moment on *The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills* with Kim Richards and smashing the wineglass was pretty traitorous.

Mark Ballas on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I think I’m a pretty straight-up person. I stole my mom’s car once when she was out of town. She knows, so it’s fine. Me and my friend, Derek, stole my mom’s car, and my nan had no idea. We would take it to the park every other day, and we would smoke cigarettes in it.

Maura Higgins

Maura Higgins on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

When I was on *I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!,* I used my bedroom phone and racked up a bill of over a thousand. I was bored, it wasn’t really a mean thing to do, and yeah, I was trying to sus out information.

Michael Rapaport

Michael Rapaport on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I mean, to be totally honest, the most traitorous thing that I’ve ever done is be a complete bulls--- artist. One hundred percent, I’m not gonna say that I’m exempt from that. Like, I’m an actor, man, you know what I mean? All actors have some part of being a bulls--- artist in one way or another, so I would say the most traitorous thing that I’ve done is being a bulls--- artist. It’ll be a good skill here. I’ve sort of put it to rest, which is why I’m so excited about playing the game.

Monét X Change

Monét X Change on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I was at a gig in Cincinnati, Ohio, on one of the tours, and I had left my wig glue at the previous city, so I went over to a girl’s station – sorry, Trinity – and I stole her wig glue, and she was looking it, and she was looking for it, and I needed it cause I was going to another city the next day so I took it with me to the next city. But she was going home so she didn’t need it anyways, so she was able to buy a new one. But I had to get somewhere so I had to take her wig glue.

Natalie Anderson

Natalie Anderson on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

The most traitorous thing I’ve ever done is find an immunity idol with somebody and then use it on them to vote them off before the final three and blindside them. And it felt so good.

Porsha Williams

Porsha Williams on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

On this show, you lie to somebody and then you murder them at night. Well, I try not to plot and plan and murder people, so I can’t say that I’ve done anything to that extent, but I’m definitely willing to do it on the show so I’m glad it’s legal.

Rob Cesternino

Rob Cesternino on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I’ve done plenty of traitorous things when I played *Survivor*, but in real life I used to always not rewind video tapes when I put them back at Blockbuster.

Rob Rausch on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

When I was 12 years old – this was an accident – but I built a home explosive experiment, and I blew it up and a piece of debris hit my brother in the chest. He’s had a scar for his whole life, which is terrible. I still feel bad about it. He’s good... it’s a cool scar now. But then, it was *not* cool. And it wasn’t totally an accident.

Ron Funches on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I worked at a bank call center, and I was always using it as an opportunity to give money back to people. Their accounts were overdrawn, and if they had like $60 overdrawn I’d go back and find $200 worth of things and then give that back to them and then I’d not show up for work for a couple of days and see if people would forget. Because I knew I was gonna be fired, and at that point I was doing open-mic stand-up comedy so I was like, “Please let me go!”

Stephen Colletti

Stephen Colletti on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I was stealing my parents’ car when I was in high school and I dinged my dad’s Explorer and then the next day I pretended like I was pushing it out of the garage to give it a car wash and that I “dinged” it then. So, mom and dad, now you know. I’m so sorry I was sneaking out the night before.

Tara Lipinski

Tara Lipinski on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

I don’t know if I’ve done anything traitorous. This is a hard question. I mean, I’m not perfect, but being traitorous is not my vibe.

Tiffany Mitchell

Tiffany Mitchell on 'The Traitors' season 4.

Sam McElwee/Peacock

The most traitorous thing I’ve ever done was probably create a secret alliance and lie to the people who believed that I was working with them. And yet I selected their order of elimination, one by one, and shook their hand, smiled in their faces, and kissed them out the door.

Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho

Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho on 'The Traitors' season 4 .

Sam McElwee/Peacock

The most traitorous thing I've ever done is convince a cop that he was wrong and know that he would be too lazy to check if he was wrong or not.

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