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Who won The Traitors 2022?
The show had the nation hooked from the moment it hit our screens
AFTER four weeks of back-stabbing, eliminations and questionable thought processes, the hit BBC show came to an end.
22 hopefuls were slowly whittled down to the remaining five finalists before the programme crowned its first-ever winners.
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Who won The Traitors 2022?
After four weeks of skulduggery, it was Aaron Evans, Hannah Byczkowski and Meryl Williams who triumphed and took a share of the prize pot.
The show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, took place at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands.
22 contestants started the show and three of them had been selected as traitors in the first episode.
The traitors were tasked to sabotage challenges and remain undetected by the other players - the faithful.
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In every episode, the traitors would remove a faithful, and the faithful would be given the chance to eliminate a traitor if they could correctly identify them.
The final proved to be hard to predict for the viewers, which is no doubt why the show appealed to so many.
What happened in the final of The Traitors?
After Maddy was banished at the penultimate roundtable and Andrea was "murdered" by The Traitors, we knew who our finalists were going to be by this stage.
The final saw us left with three "Faithfuls" and two "Traitors" in the competition, which made it difficult for the viewer to predict which group would walk away with the prize money.
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Kieran Tompsett was first to be banished in the finale after the group exposed him as a Traitor.
Before leaving, the contestant said he had a "parting gift" as he voted for Wilf as the person he believed to be a Traitor.
An explosive debate followed, as Hannah, Meryl and Aaron were left wondering what Kieran meant, and had to decide whether to banish Wilf and take the money, or end the game with Wilf included.
Unbeknown to them, had they done the latter, Wilf would have won all the money as the last remaining Traitor.
However, the group did take heed of his cryptic references and, as a result, they voted to banish the remaining Traitor Wilf.
Claudia then revealed that the remaining three were all Faithfuls, and therefore, all winners.
As a result, Aaron, Hannah and Meryl triumphed and took the share of the pot of £101,050.
The traitors and the faithful who were banished throughout the series left the castle with nothing.
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All 12 episodes of The Traitors, which are one hour long, are available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
The Traitors is set to return for a second series on Wednesday, January 3rd from 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
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