“I took one for the team,” says The Traitors contestant

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Traitors

A contestant who sacrificed himself in the first episode of the new series of The Traitors said he was “approved” to miss a chance to be exposed.

He was one of three people who left the train bound for Ardross Castle, Scotland, to help secure a prize pool for the other participants.

In Wednesday’s episode, Jack Marriner Brown, from Bridlington, East Yorkshire, was given a chance to return, only to be left suspended in a cage in a forest as other contestants chose to rescue Alexander and Fozia instead.

Jack said that after hearing why people needed the £120,000 prize money, he felt it was the right thing to “take one for the team”. He also joked that he “needs a pee”.

“It was really tough – but you just have to roll with the punches,” the 24-year-old told BBC Radio Humberside.

“To be honest, £120,000 in the bank wouldn’t be terrible.”

Jack, a landscaper and market trader who trades in his spare time, said he thought he would have been good at the physical challenges of the show but accepted that his fellow contestants had chosen Alexander and Fozia’s intellect.

Commenting on his decision to leave the train, he told BBC Morning Live: “If there’s one thing I hope it’s done is that everyone takes a second out of their day to be a little bit kinder .”

Despite being “absolutely devastated” to leave the competition, he said it meant a lot to hear fans had posted messages of support for him on social media.

Jack, who was one of around 300,000 applicants for the show, said he had been a fan “from the start”.

It was thanks to his mother’s encouragement that he gave it a go, although he described being selected as “a stroke of luck”.

The show sees contestants trying to identify who among them are “faithful” and which are “traitors”, with the traitors plotting to murder the faithful and the faithful trying to identify and banish the traitors.

Finalists have a chance to win a share of the £120,000 prize, but if a traitor survives to the end, unidentified, they take home the prize.

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