Traitors contestants really staying in £70-a-night airport lodge
On display screen they’re seen luxuriating in elegant loos or enjoyable within the trendy consolation of a four-poster mattress.
But in a little bit of deception worthy of the slipperiest contestant, these collaborating within the BBC‘s hit actuality present The Traitors keep not within the magnificent 30-bedroom Highland citadel the place the skullduggery is filmed, however in a £70-a-night airport lodge.
While viewers have come to relish the drama of the breakfast revelation, the place gamers be taught who has been ‘murdered’ in a single day amid recent fruit and pastries, gamers have really already tucked into toast and porridge on the somewhat much less glamorous buffet at their mid-range lodging.
The prosaic actuality behind the on-screen glamour was revealed by Alan Cumming, who hosts the US model of the collection, which is filmed in the identical location because the British one, the nineteenth Century Ardross Castle, 25 miles north of Inverness.
Charlotte from Traitors collection 2 in a classy lavatory. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, this collection of The Traitors has been attracting greater than 8 million viewers per episode
Zack from Traitors collection 2 studying on the mattress of an expensive lodge room
While viewers have come to relish the drama of the breakfast revelation, the place gamers be taught who has been ‘murdered’ in a single day amid recent fruit and pastries, gamers have really already tucked into toast and porridge on the somewhat much less glamorous buffet at their mid-range lodging. Pictured: Ardross Castle within the Scottish Highlands
He defined: ‘They [the contestants] all stayed within the airport lodge within the Inverness airport. How glamorous – you come to Scotland, and also you keep within the Inverness airport lodge! I stayed in somewhat home in Inverness. But I had a room within the citadel the place I’d get made up and dressed. It had an enormous mattress in it. So I did really sleep very often, however not in a single day.’
The ‘secret location’ the place contestants go after a day of filming is the Courtyard by Marriott adjoining the Inverness airport automotive park – a 40-minute drive from the citadel.
On studying Cumming’s feedback on The Daily Beast web site, one social media consumer posted: ‘OMG! I all the time imagined all of them stayed in particular person little cottages on the citadel property someplace – that is approach much less romantic than I believed.’
The ‘secret location’ the place contestants go after a day of filming is the Courtyard by Marriott adjoining the Inverness airport automotive park – a 40-minute drive from the citadel
Pictured: A room on the Courtyard Hotel by Marriot at Inverness airport. A neighborhood stated: ‘The airport lodge had simply opened once they had been filming final 12 months. These folks took it over for a month, two months. It was actually good enterprise’
Pictured: A toilet on the Courtyard Hotel by Marriot at Inverness airport. One visitor recalled: ‘They had guards on every hall by all of the lifts checking on folks leaving their rooms’
A neighborhood stated: ‘The airport lodge had simply opened once they had been filming final 12 months. These folks took it over for a month, two months. It was actually good enterprise.’
Former friends additionally noticed safety guards prowling the premises to cease contestants conferring – or discovering the identities of the traitors of their midst who would return to Ardross Castle to plot the ‘homicide’ of certainly one of their quantity.
One visitor recalled: ‘They had guards on every hall by all of the lifts checking on folks leaving their rooms.’
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, this collection of The Traitors has been attracting greater than 8 million viewers per episode.
Both the BBC and the manufacturing firm behind the present declined to touch upon the contestants’ in a single day lodging.
