For much of The Traitors Canada Season 2, Canada’s Drag Race star Melinda and Big Brother Célébrités alum Tranna have been working together to try to pick out the Traitors. But in this week’s episode of the show, a tearful roundtable ended with Melinda, a Faithful, being banished from the manor.
“In that cuckoo house, at some point … I had to find at least one person I can confide in, and she was that person, and I told her right off the bat, I’m like, ‘You know what. I don’t know if you’re a Traitor or you’re a Faithful, but I’m choosing to trust you.’ I’m choosing to have her as my confidant,” Melinda told Yahoo Canada.
“She was that one person for me. … Her energy was right. … You need that in that kind of setting, because otherwise you’re just really lost the whole time. And I don’t think that we would have been as eloquent, at least at the roundtable, without having each other. … Super happy that she’s a Faithful, but at the same time I kind of knew that. I really knew that all along in my heart that she was a Faithful and she was somebody I could rely on and trust.”
Evaluating how the Traitors have been playing the game, the Canada’s Drag Race alum thinks they’ve each had a strong strategy, in their own ways.
“I think Neda is playing a really strong game in that she is just coasting right on … throughout this whole insanity and no one’s suspecting her at all,” Melinda said. “She’s playing such a strong game and is able to really keep herself composed.”
“Kyra, of course, super likeable, super relatable. She was in my top three of most trusted people in that house. So in that regard, she’s doing so, so, so well. But now that I’m watching the show, I’m like, she’s really trying to throw us a bone and luckily for her we’re not getting it.”
For Michael John, whose name has come up frequently has a possible Traitor throughout the season, Melinda stressed that it’s more clear in hindsight that he’s a Traitor.
“Now, in hindsight I guess, he really played me like a motherf**king ukulele,” Melinda said. “He just had me in his back pocket.”
“The Michael John that I met on set is a different Michael John than I’m seeing in the confessionals.”
‘They put together such a strong cast of cuckoo characters’
But from Melinda’s evaluation of the show, the real winner of Traitors Canada Season 2 is the show’s casting department.
“They put together such a strong cast of cuckoo characters that it’s so hard to focus and root out these Traitors, because everyone has strong personalities, and we’re so different from each other,” Melinda said. “You’re so distracted by everyone that’s around you and factor in the physical, emotional and mental exhaustion on the daily, it’s extremely hard this season to really focus. Well Cedric alone, … the biggest distraction out of any season I think.”
While Melinda’s time on the show is over, if there was a future opportunity to come back on the show, the Drag Race star wants to be a Traitor.
“I wish I would have been a Traitor,” Melinda said. “It is what it is, you just kind of do your best and hope for the best each day.”
“Maybe I would have been a little bit less vocal, only because then I became a target, because of how I present. I like to present ideas thoroughly … and in the end, I think that was my downfall.”