Jack Butler in The Traitors S4 final / BBC
The Traitors finalist Jack Butler has admitted that he had to be calmed down by producers after the show’s dramatic endgame.
In Friday’s climactic episode, Butler made it to the final three with Traitors Stephen Libby and Rachel Duffy, but the treacherous duo teamed up to banish him and share the prize pot.
“The first ten minutes after it happened, I was absolutely steaming,” he told the Daily Mail. “I was so angry and I got pulled into a room with the producers and I was calmed down a little bit.
“Then I was just looking forward to going home and seeing my partner and my family. It’s like 10 minutes of anger and then you’re like ‘hang on, it’s not actually life or death’. Honestly, it’s such a psychological game and you’ve gone through all these weeks of ‘who can I trust?’
“I think Stephen really acted fantastically as like putting on the facade of being a faithful in the earlier episodes. We really clicked and we get on so well. We’re very similar. And I just thought ‘he’s got to be a Faithful because he’s terrified just like me. He doesn’t want to be murdered.’
“It was only at the end when he turned his slate around with my name [when I realised]. But it’s a testament to how much of a fantastic game he played. And Rachel as well. They were both phenomenal. They absolutely deserved it. I am genuinely really happy for both of them.”
Butler added that he has proposed to his girlfriend since the show ended and intends to invite all of his Traitors co-stars to the wedding.
