THE only Irish contestant in this year’s series of The Traitors has admitted she “applied on a whim” and never expected to get selected for the show. Anna, 28, who hails from Wicklow, is one of 25 constants on the third series of the BBC One show, which returned to our screens last night. The swimming teacher will now battle it out with her fellow contestants in the reality tv series set in the Scottish Highlands in the hope of winning a prize pot of up to £120,000.
This week she revealed why she wanted to take part...
This is absolutely not something that I normally do! I initially watched The Traitors by accident, my housemates turned it on while I was waiting for my dinner to cook. Then I binge-watched nearly the whole thing in three days, I was obsessed. It’s the only TV show I've thought I’d be good at that! I've got a brain that can compartmentalise things and I can be quite personable.
I think a lot of it does depend on your ability to control your emotions in that environment and your ability to get people on your side, which are two things that I think I have a bit of a skill for. I applied on a whim while my boyfriend was watching football. I just filled in the form, didn't think anything of it.
I cannot believe that I got chosen. I'm a big talker. Sometimes if someone asks me a question, I will go on such a tangent that I have forgotten what the question was, but so will they! I think I have the gift of the gab.
I might talk myself into a situation, then.
