Season 4 of Peacock’s The Traitors is off to a strong start with a stacked cast of celebs competing against each other.
Peacock confirmed on Friday, June 13, that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Lisa Rinna, Travis and Jason Kelce‘s mother, Donna Kelce, Tiffany Mitchell from Big Brother, Stephen Colletti from Laguna Beach, former competitive figure skaters Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir will be joining the cast of the upcoming season.
Survivor‘s Natalie Anderson, Big Brother’s Ian Terry, The Bachelor’s Colton Underwood, Survivor’s Rob Cesternino, The Real Housewives of New York City’s Dorinda Medley, Survivor‘s Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho, RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s Monet X Change and Dancing With the Stars pro Mark Ballas are also set to appear.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Porsha Williams, The Real Housewives of Potomac‘s Candiace Dillard-Bassett, singer Eric Nam, Love Island‘s Maura Higgins, comedian Ron Funches, Love Island USA‘s Rob Rausch, Top Chef‘s Kristin Kish, comedian Michael Rapaport and The Real Housewives of Dubai‘s Caroline Stanbury, are rounding out the group of contestants that will either be Faithfuls — or Traitors.
Shortly before the news of Donna’s involvement, the official account for Travis and Jason’s “New Heights” podcast shared a clip from a past episode where they discussed whether they would make it far on the show.
Peacock’s hit reality series brings together reality TV stars from various franchises and other notable figures as they compete in a mafia-style game for up to $250,000. The show is coming off a successful third season, which featured Wells Adams, Gabby Windey, Ciara Miller, Chrishell Stause, Jeremy Collins, Carolyn Wiger, Tony Vlachos, Bob the Drag Queen, Britney Haynes and Danielle Reyes.
“Boston Rob” Mariano, Wes Bergmann and Derrick Levasseur joined later and Bob Harper, Dylan Efron, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, Sam Asghari and Nikki Bella made up the rest of the group.
With The Traitors becoming more and more popular each season, host Alan Cumming recently told Us Weekly that he now has people pitching themselves as possible players.
“I have a constant barrage of reality stars now in my DMs and in my life asking me to be on The Traitors,” Cumming, 60, exclusively shared with Us in April. “It’s not something I thought would be my life, but it is.”
Cumming took the opportunity to suggest someone to join him in the castle in Scotland, adding, “Miriam Margolyes, I’d love for her to come on. She’s hilarious. And she’d just cause so much trouble.”
For any reality TV stars looking to compete on The Traitors, they might be surprised to learn just how many rules they must follow. Season 2 contestant — and runner-up — Mercedes “MJ” Javid surprised Us when she revealed in 2024 that she took a 600-question psych evaluation.
Executive producer Mike Cotton later elaborated that the tests allow the crew to “see attributes that might make someone a good liar or particularly deceptive.”
“It’s an interesting process. It’s a big group thing,” he explained to Variety in January 2024. “We actually don’t know who the Traitors are until that pick, where Alan walks around and taps them on the shoulder. We watch how they interact when they arrive at the castle. Alan does these chats with them, sitting down and asking them if they’d like to be a Traitor and why. That has a really big bearing on it, as does Alan’s opinion.”
Cotton continued: “It’s almost like a job interview to be a Traitor, and we take all of that into account and decide just before the pick who that should be. We want to make sure we’ve got an interesting mix of characters that will bring their own unique skill set to it.”
The biggest concern for producers? That none of the players interact when cameras aren’t rolling.
“It’s a massive military operation each night to get the Faithful to bed in individual rooms and get the Traitors back out to have their meeting,” Cotton told Variety about attempting to preserve the “secrecy of the Traitors.”
The first three seasons of The Traitors are currently streaming on Peacock.
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