The Traitors UK: Who is the Secret Traitor? Every suspect, fan theory and clue so far ahead of huge reveal

Tonight’s episode is set to be a dramatic affair, as the Secret Traitor is united with the main traitor group.

Known traitors Rachel and Stephen were tasked with completing a difficult ‘murder in plain sight’-style task at the end of episode three. They were instructed to place a red fingerprint on nine murder candidates on the family tree poster in the entryway to The Traitors castle without being caught if they wanted the chance to find out the identity of the secret traitor.

Stephen looks as if he was up for giving the challenge a pass and remaining in the dark, but a desperate Rachel convinced him otherwise and the pair got to work and completed the task. As a result, they will be united with the secret traitor and murder from the shortlist in scenes to be shown in tonight’s episode.

Therefore, it looks likely that we may find out the identity of the Secret Traitor sooner rather than later. So who are the current suspects? Here’s everything you need to know ahead of tonight’s episode.

Who is the Secret Traitor?

As viewers, there are only a handful of people left that we know are definitely not the Secret Traitor. These are:

• Rachel (traitor)
• Stephen (traitor)
• Reece (confirmed faithful)
• Maz (confirmed faithful)
• James (confirmed faithful)

There are plenty of fan theories floating around social media purporting to point towards the identity of the Secret Traitor. Here are some of the biggest ones we’ve spotted so far:

Ellie

Ellie has really come into focus in recent episodes of The Traitors, right around the time that the secret traitor twist looks to be getting its climax. The 33-year-old psychologist has already got viewers talking about her possible connection to fellow player Ross after they spotted clues on social media and a natural ease between the two on screen.

However, Ellie really became a suspect for Secret Traitor after she literally uttered the phrase “secret traitor” during a talking head interview in episode three. Could this have been a secret wink to the audience about her true role in the game?

Amanda

Amanda has already been keeping one secret from the faithful - but is she keeping another? The retired police detective has been attempting to keep her former job from the group (although viewers at home have already joked about how she’s sticking out like DI Ted Hastings from Line of Duty with her mannerisms).

Amanda appears to be hiding her history so as to not pinpoint herself as a target for the Traitors, but what if she’s hiding it to avoid a Hugo situation? In episode three, Harriet picked up on the fact that the Traitors should have gotten rid of Hugo, who took pride in telling everyone he was a barrister, with his presence in the game supposedly indicating that he was in the group of traitors. Amanda has also been spearheading a crusade against Jade and plenty of cuts in the edits certainly point towards her being the possible secret traitor.

Ross

Ross has been the name on everyone’s lips at some point in the game so far. Eyebrows were raised immediately when it became evident that both he and Netty knew each other, with her over-the-top reaction upon leaving the cars on day one seemingly hampering his game plan so far.

Since then, the group has gone back and forth on Ross. With Netty being murdered first, the faithful questioned whether Ross, who had only just admitted that he would’ve rather Netty kept their connection hidden, was being framed or was it a master bluff?

Ben’s murder looked to implicate him again, but this time faithfuls were confident that Ross was being set up after Ben explicitly told a small group to look at him if he was murdered. Only what if it is a bluff-upon-bluff-upon-bluff? You’d get dizzy trying to untangle his plan but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility…

Harriet

Harriet all-but-cemented herself as a faithful to the group after she led an extremely confident and measured charge against Hugo in the last roundtable. The (secret) ex-barrister and crime novel author told everyone that she became suspicious of Hugo due to the Traitors not targeting him and his dramatics at breakfast after poor Ben’s murder… but what if she targeted him so confidently because she knew for sure he would be revealed to be a traitor?

The Secret Traitor is the only person in the game who knows everyone's status at this point in the game - they know who the faithful are and who the traitors are. It wouldn’t be beyond reason for the secret traitor to throw a weak Traitor to the wolves to cement their place as a faithful, and Harriet has certainly proven herself clever enough to come up with the scheme in the first place.

Likewise, eagle-eyed Uncloaked viewers spotted that her portrait was hanging beside the other traitors on the set of the companion show in a possible nod to her true status in the game.

Fiona

Fiona has been floating around in the background for most of the game so far, but we’ve already seen her hint towards not being the ditsy older woman that other players may expect her to be.

Viewers have also picked up on a few suspicious moments from the 62-year-old, including her seemingly nonchalant attitude towards shields and her appearing to correctly identify two traitors out of nowhere - was this a warning to the main group of traitors that she held all the cards?

Roxy

Roxy has already revealed one secret to us after admitting that murdered Judy was actually her mum, but is she keeping another secret? While not revealing her relationship to Judy to her fellow players, she adamantly defended her at the roundtable - is this because she knew for sure that her mum was definitely a faithful?

Fans have also done their best handwriting analysis of the murder shortlist written up by the Secret Traitor in the first two episodes, with some claiming that her handwriting on the board at the roundtables match up with some of the letters on the shortlist.

The Traitors continues at 8pm tonight (January 7) on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Episodes 1-3 of series four are available to catch up on BBC iPlayer right now.