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Traitor is one of the few things that gets us through a miserable January. Three nights a week, it feels as if the entire country is living and breathing the drama of Cloak and Dagger.

For the other four days the show was off the air, we shared our opinions and theories online with everyone from colleagues to strangers.

But it’s not just the tactics and contestants that viewers are talking about – my group chat is constantly filled with questions about what happens behind the scenes, where the cast goes after leaving the castle, and whether Charlotte will reveal her real accent.

Fortunately, we no longer have to think most Former contestants have been giving interviews to BBC News about the secretive workings of Renegade Castle.

The order in which the contestants eat breakfast is a source of tension and speculation on the show.

Maddie Smedley, a long-time fan of the first season, explains that when contestants arrive at the castle in the morning, they are kept in separate storage rooms and asked to eat breakfast individually or in groups.

Likewise, in the evening, runners wait in the waiting room until runners escort them individually out of the building and into their cars.

Renegade and series two winner Harry Clark said there was no clock in the castle and contestants had no sense of time.

“You’re picked up in the morning and when the shoot is over, you’re taken back to your accommodation,” he explains.

“I don’t know when the mission will start or when lunch will be served. We rely on the production team to direct it. In the middle we just sit together and chat.”

Unlike the hour-long episodes we’ve seen, Harry says these days aren’t filled with traitor speculation.

“I’ve been talking to Paul all day about Liverpool and Chelsea or seeing if everyone believes in aliens and obviously that stuff won’t make the final edit because it has nothing to do with the game.”

Series 1 stalwart Dr. Amos Ogunkoya describes his days at the castle as “a very nice holiday camp until the Round Table.”

“We spend most of the day catching up on each other’s lives, so you become very close to everyone there.”

Matt Harris, another big fan of the first season, said that while the castle was large, “you couldn’t leave the camera’s sight, so you couldn’t walk around the grounds.”

“They have rooms like the library and the bar set up specifically for the show, and the producers will tell you which rooms you can access.”

Due to the lack of a clock, it is difficult to know exactly how long the time is anything The roundtable, while ongoing, certainly lasted far longer than the 10 minutes of screen time.

“In the beginning, there were 22 people,” Harry said. “Even if each person only speaks for 10 minutes, that’s more than three hours.”

As a viewer, it’s hard to understand why the contestants were so emotional during and after the roundtable, but Harry said it was “really intense.”

“Everyone has a story and if someone is evicted you take away their opportunity to win money.”

Maddie said she cried so much during the show that “security would give me ice cubes every morning to help with the puffiness on my face.”

The exact location of the contestants’ homes remains a mystery to us, and apparently to the cast as well.

“It’s about a 30-minute drive from the castle, but when you get closer you’re blindfolded, so you can’t see the car in front of you or figure out where you are,” Maddie said.

She explained that the entire production team and cast lived in private accommodation, but you were distanced from everyone “with military precision.”

“You can go out for a walk but you have to be accompanied by a runner and there are two security guards on each floor to make sure you don’t leave your room unaccompanied.

“At first, I was really scared of them because I’d seen the Dutch version of the show where the faithful were murdered in their hotel rooms, so every time the guards knocked on my door I thought I was leaving the game ,” she said.

Harry explained that he sometimes felt lonely in the dormitory, especially when contestants’ phones were confiscated. “But I can’t complain because I sleep soundly every night knowing I’ll be here for breakfast!”

Every now and then the viewer sees a bowl of fruit at breakfast, or someone piling carrots onto a plate at dinner.

Contestants we spoke to had mixed reviews about the food served on the show.

Dr. Amos said “breakfast is so bad, you don’t want to eat too much,” but Matt was more generous, calling it “not bad.”

Harry said there was “a lot of Scottish food, like haggis”, adding that as a picky eater he “wouldn’t touch it”.

But luckily, Harry had the option to ask for food.

During the day, he said, he ate “a lot of chicken nuggets and chips” and at night, he would ask for “the perfect traitor fuel” to be delivered to his residence – a crispy sandwich.

Maddie said if contestants were evicted from the roundtable, they would “literally leave immediately.”

“You are immediately taken to an exit interview and then driven to your hotel to pack. The next morning I was escorted to the airport by security and my phone was handed back to me.”

Maddie said a more stressful way to leave the show was through murder.

“You show up in the morning like you’re going to have breakfast and everyone’s waiting in these waiting rooms. Eventually, you’re called in like you’re going to have breakfast, but instead they take you to another room where there’s The murder letter sat on the chair.

“It’s too much pressure.”

“The most shocking thing is that it was all unscripted,” Dr. Amos said.

Maddie said the only time producers intervened was when they told her over breakfast to announce she was an actress.

She explained that she had shared this with the other contestants as they waited to be taken back to the hotel and removed from the microphone.

Matt said some moments were directed by the producers.

“Occasionally, people are pulled out and told to talk to other people – they very naturally lead you into a position that makes for good television.”

“It’s weird at first because you have cameras in your face, but after a while you forget they’re there and the producers don’t get involved,” Harry added.

“Most rooms also just have cameras in the corners and you have a microphone on you, so sometimes you don’t see any producers until the end of the day and they check on you.”

“Every room was surrounded by cameras,” explains Mike Cotton, creative director at the studio that made Renegade.

“I would say there were probably about 50 to 60 of them throughout the entire living space within the castle.”

He said a team of camera operators, working in pairs, followed the actors into different rooms – but at a distance.

During the roundtable, he said the cameras were hidden and some were built into tables.

“The contestants don’t see any cameras, which is to keep them immersed because they can only see each other,” he explains.

“When I met Claudia, I was so nervous because she was so powerful,” Harry said.

“I wanted to be a traitor so bad, I thought she wouldn’t notice us, but actually, she knows everything about everyone.

“She’s really engaged and makes you feel comfortable.”

What does Claudia Winkelmann know about these challenges?

“Very few,” said Harry.

“There was a team that created the missions, and no one else knew anything about them. I would try to get them to tell me about it off camera, or I would give them some ideas, but they wouldn’t listen.”

Claudia recently said Her biggest concern is accidentally revealing the identity of the traitor while filming the roundtable.

“I was so paranoid about seeing a traitor that I looked right over everyone’s head,” she explained.

In interviews with BBC News and other media last month, Claudia explained that there is a team that makes this decision.

“We talked to all of them, and then six of us walked into a room, these talented casting people, and we ate seven packs of cookies.

“I’m the loudest in the room, but you decide who’s in the chat.”

The team will consider the player’s wishes and if someone asks not to be a traitor, they will not be selected.

Dr. Amos said he made it clear that if he wasn’t a true believer, he wouldn’t be on the show.

“I wanted to be on the show, but as a doctor, I think being a traitor and lying to people would have real-life consequences because my patients might not trust me.”

One thing that’s clear from talking to the contestants is that applying to the show requires hard work.

After launching your initial written and video applications, you will have many viewers and producers.

“They ask you to tell them primarily a story about yourself and your life,” Dr. Amos said.

“Ultimately, if they like you, then you get a call a few weeks before[shooting starts]saying you’re going to Scotland,” Harry added.

“Traitor” was filmed at Ardross Castle, a 19th-century building about 30 miles north of Inverness.

It is set in approximately 100 acres of gardens and parkland and has been owned by the McTaggart family since 1983.

Fun fact: Its previous owner was Charles William Dyson Perrins, whose grandfather William Perrins (along with John Wheeley Lee Lea) created the recipe for Worcestershire Sauce.

Mike Cotton said there were more than 200 people working on site.

“It sounds absolutely huge, but we’re shooting one episode a day,” he said.

He explains that the team includes everyone from producers and photographers to the art department, who work their magic on the interior design of the room.

He compared the production to a live production of a Hollywood movie.

Dr. Amos says everyone on the crew knows who the traitor is.

“It looks like loyal people are the majority on the show, but in reality, you feel like you’re in the minority – everyone, including the psychologists who support you, know who the traitors are.”