SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the first three episodes of “The Traitors” Season 3, currently streaming on Peacock.
From the first ten minutes of “The Traitors” Season 3, changes were put in place. First, Rob “Boston Rob” Mariano wasn’t in the initial group of cast who arrived at the castle. Instead, when they showed up, he was brought out in a cloak and mask and the group was given a choice. If one cast member stepped forward to shake his hand, he’d join the group — that cast member would also get to choose to execute another immediately.
Despite having some reality TV stars who didn’t like each other — we’re looking at you, Britney Haynes and Danielle Reyes — no one wanted to get rid of someone else that bad or put a target on their backs. So, they let Rob go.
Little did they know, he wasn’t actually gone. (Of course not — he’s Boston Rob!) At the end of the first episode, Alan Cumming met him in the woods to inform him he’d be joining the game as a traitor, to join the other three who had been chosen as the season’s Traitors: Danielle Reyes, Bob the Drag Queen and Carolyn Wiger.
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Alan also informed him that he wasn’t entering the game alone. Two-time “Challenge” champion Wes Bergmann and “Big Brother” winner Derrick Levasseur were also added to the cast, both of them as Faithfuls.
New episodes of “The Traitors” will debut every Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.