BBC reality gameshow The Traitors makes a New Year’s Day return with a new group of strangers meeting at a castle in the Scottish Highlands to play a game which will test their trust, as well as their skills in detection and backstabbing.
They’re also battling with each other for the chance of winning up to £120,000 (€145,000).
One of those taking part in the show hosted by Claudia Winkelman is former British diplomat Alexander, 38, who said he joined the show to try something new.
The Londoner also said he thought it would “be fun to bring my diplomatic skills to the game – a diplomat is meant to win people over and be good at influencing and negotiating, and finally, it’s a show with heart.”
He will be joined on the series by care manager Alex, 29, who lives in Whitby, who says he will spend the prize money on becoming a father for the first time if he wins.
He said: “Me and my wife aren’t able to have biological children and it’s obviously very expensive to start IVF so that would be the first thing on the list.”
Model and beautician Olivia, 26 from Horsham, had an eye removed and underwent chemotherapy when she was just 14.
Speaking about what she would bring to the show, the contestant said: “I’m so excited for the missions.
“I’m a fighter, I’ve been through a lot in life, I had my eye removed at 14 and at the time I didn’t cope with it very well.
“When I had my eye removed, I had to adjust to a whole way of living.
“At the age of 14 all my friends were experiencing being a teenager and growing into adulthood, and I was starting chemotherapy.
“I’ve always just got on with it, I’ve never dwelled on it, and I’ve adjusted to my new life. I think that comes with everything now, I never give up, I always push and I want to succeed.”
Another contestant, communication scientist Yin, 34, from Berkshire said she thought she would be successful on the show as it is “all about communication”.
She added: “It would be the perfect opportunity for me to exercise my discipline of communication science.
“More specifically, The Traitors is about rhetoric – the art and science of persuasive communication.
“This is my specialty, and I am so obsessed with it that I have a PhD from Oxford in the subject.”
In the show, a group of traitors must secretly murder their fellow players without getting caught, while the faithful attempt to banish the traitors from the game.
Those left at the end have a chance of winning a chunk of the prize, but if a traitor survives until the end they can take the full prize.
The Traitors will return for its third season at 8pm on New Year’s Day on BBC One.
Source: Press Association