Banished Traitors star says they were ‘too trusting’ before axe

Banished Traitors star Ash has said she was “too trusting” of her fellow traitors before they turned on her and voted her off the show.

The 45-year-old events co-ordinator Ash from London was ousted from the show in dramatic scenes in Wednesday’s episode of the BBC smash hit, after her fellow traitors opted to stab her in the back.

She told ITV’s This Morning: “I think perhaps was I too trusting of my fellow traitors? But we’re traitors. Traitors gotta trait, that’s our job. But maybe I was too trusting.”

She added that she thinks she drew attention to herself by being too serious.

She said: “I think maybe that was possibly my downfall. I think had I had just been myself a little bit more, I like to joke around. I like to have fun, but I had to be quite serious.

“So I think maybe that was my downfall actually, had I been relaxed, a little bit more been myself, enjoyed myself, maybe people wouldn’t have looked at me.”

Sonja, 66, a volunteer business mentor from Lancashire, who was banished from the show last week despite being a faithful, said it was “a shock” when the group turned on her.

She said: “It’s only really as you walk into that room that you first realise that someone is going to go tonight.

“And it kind of dawns on you, it’s such a atmospheric room.

“In my case you really only just met people I thought, and then I thought back on the day and I thought I never found my off button.

“I was chatting all day and I thought maybe I should have been a little bit more strategic.”

She continued: “I think everybody was happy to hook on to anything because you don’t really know each other at that stage.”

Asked who she was backing to win, Ash said she was still supporting “my traitor boys,” adding: “The one good thing about leaving is that I can finally relax and now I can watch the show as a viewer and I cannot wait.”