The Traitors Star Dylan Efron Thinks Bob the Drag Queen Is a ‘Cool Guy’ Even After Brutal Zac Efron Diss

The 32-year-old producer, content creator and lover of the outdoors may not be an actor, but he might have been made for a game like The traitorswhich shares Real Housewivesprevious Bachelorcompetition pits legends, British aristocrats and a few hot random internet personalities and celebrities against traitors and loyalists to compete for a prize pool. Guided by host Alan Cumming in the Scottish Highlands, players gossip, lie and accuse each other in the name of weeding out the fraudulent. A few episodes in, Efron – a stalwart – has hidden a sharp strategic eye and spot-on instincts behind his boyish grin.

In an excruciating scene, he finds his way into a secret room with traitor Danielle Big brother clearly panic beside him. He comes within inches of a chest of secret information and we see him grow increasingly frustrated as he knows something is going on but can’t figure out what.

“They’re even cutting back on it,” he says. “I didn’t give up easily. I was in there digging around (for a long time). I actually think it wasn’t in the episode either, but we knew something was going on. Finally, when I see the door open, I’m like, ‘Oh, we’re going to find out’, because that would have been fun.”

Fans have started referring to him as Pilot Pete this season — the Bachelor from Season 24 also had a knack for weeding out traitors — but as one said, “less annoying.” Efron is mysterious: “We’ll see. This season isn’t over yet.”

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As a kid in the central coastal town of Arroyo Grande, California, Efron loved games, and he was good at them. He and his friends played Mafia – the more analogue base game to Traitors — as well as poker and Settlers of Catan. “I was very competitive growing up,” he says.