The Traitors: New Blood features 22 reality TV novices all vying for $250,000, and they’ll do anything to get it, especially murder. After the remaining players made themselves vunerable at a feast, one player was poisioned and murdered.
New Blood, hosted by Alan Cumming, is the same Traitors that fans know and love, but this time it isn’t celebrities entering the house. There are still challenges, banishments, and murders, but no one knows each other, and they all get a fresh start.
The contestants compete in challenges to raise the prize pot of up to $250,000. There will be Traitors picked, and they will murder a contestant. Then, the Faithfuls will try to banish the Traitors. If Faithfuls are left at the end, they split the money. However, if a Traitor is amongst them, they will take the whole pot.
The cast includes Abbey Benjamin, Abby Lee, Arisa Thomas, Ben McDonnell, Clyde Moser, Jay Vinnedge, Joe Vanella, Katie Fites, Kim Daily, Kriste Lewis, Logan Smith, Madeline Kostopulos, Mark Zgoda, Michael Foote, Morgan Cook, Niyyah Hayes, Shane Beatty, Sherry Kuehl, Tomica Adams, Victor Vollbrechthausen, Wyatt Gillespie, and Xavier Scruggs.
Read on to find out who the Traitors are, who was murdered and banished, and more. Warning: Spoilers for Episode 9 of The Traitors: New Blood ahead!
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Who has been eliminated so far?
Episode 1
The Traitors: Joe and Tomica were chosen as the Traitors. They were both excited to be in that position.
Episode 2
The Accomplice Traitors: Xavier and Katie
Murdered:Kim
Banished: Madeline (Faithful) with 13 votes (Victor received seven and Kristie received one)
Episode 3
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Murdered: Xavier
New Traitor: Katie
Episode 4
Banished: Arisa (Faithful) with 13 votes (Michael received one, Victor received six)
Murdered: Logan
Episode 5
Banished: Sherry (Faithful), with 11 votes (Michael with one vote, Jay had five)
Murdered: The murdered Faithful met their demise at a public wake. The shortlisted people waited behind their tombstones. They all entered their coffins. Names were called, and they were safe.
Episode 6
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Murdered: Niyyah
Banished: Michael (Faithful) with eight votes (Victor and Wyatt received three, while Tomica received one vote)
Episode 7
Murdered: Mark
Banished: Victor (Faithful) received the most votes with five, but because of the power, he was spared for now (Tomica had three, Wyatt had two, Abby L., Morgan, and Katie all received one vote).
Power Winner/What It Is: The power is The Pardon, which gives the winner the choice to solely choose to banish the person who had the most votes or save them. Who won it will be revealed on the next episode.
Episode 8
Power Winner: Shane
Was Victor banished?: No. Shane pardoned him, despite voting for him to leave.
Murdered: Abby L.
Banished: Tomica (Traitor) with 10 votes (Victor received two). They added $15,000 to the prize pot because they caught a Traitor.
Episode 9
After the stressful roundup table, the contestants were given a feast, where they opened up about how they would spend their money, their families, and how much they all admired each other. However, Cumming said that by the end of the night, one player would be murdered.
The Traitors had to pick one player to murder by giving them the poison chalice. Everyone could toast and drink out of their chalice or swap it with someone else’s. If a Traitor drank the poison, no one would be murdered.
Victor, thinking he would be murdered, tried to trade with Joe and Katie. Neither of them traded. However, Shane did trade with Joe, but who was murdered?
Murdered: Morgan
Challenge: Players had to enter a creepy haunted house, where spirits would call on a phone and say the thing they wanted the most. If the players got it right, they would bank $9,000. If they got it wrong, the player who presented it to the spirit was kicked out of the challenge. They wound up banking $18,000.
Shield: Victor protect himsself from murder with a shield, but didn’t tell anyone
The Traitors: New Blood, Thursdays, 8/7c, NBC, Streaming next day on Peacock
