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The Traitors winner Rachel has clarified claims she trained with the FBI to help her lie on the show.
The star, from Newry in Northern Ireland, won the fourth series of the BBC One show alongside fellow traitor Stephen in a historic finale in which two traitors claimed victory together for the first time.
During the series Rachel told her fellow players that she had received FBI training before entering the castle and would use this claim to try to sway votes during the roundtable.
She said she was taught how to spot micro-expressions, read blink patterns, and monitor breathing and swallowing by the former agent, who worked with her for four months.
She said at the time that she tested out her new talent by lying to her lawyer husband, Seamus, and said she became so good even he couldn’t now tell if she was telling fibs.
‘My husband can’t even tell if I’m telling the truth any more, not that I lie to him all that often, but I could wind him up and say something off the cuff, and he’s like, “I don’t even know if that’s true!”,’ Rachel said.
But speaking on the spin-off series Traitors: Uncloaked, she revealed the real extent of the training she had received.
She said: ‘I was very careful with my words. I said that I was trained by a former FBI agent. That’s correct, but a really loose interpretation of it.
‘The four-month online course was more like a one-day course and an e-book, but still by a former FBI agent.
‘So it was tactical skills in negotiating with difficult people and there were 21 very difficult people in that castle.
‘It’s the art of distraction.’
Rachel made it to the end of the show with Stephen and they split the prize pot, winning £47,875 (€55.2k) each.