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Spoilers forward for the primary three episodes of The Traitors<\/em><\/strong> season 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n Alan Cumming<\/strong><\/a> is sick, twisted, and must be psychiatrically evaluated.\u201d That\u2019s the evaluation of 1 contestant upon studying of a devious new twist in season three of The Traitors<\/em><\/a>, the primary three episodes of which at the moment are streaming on Peacock.<\/p>\n But does the host in query agree? \u201cThat might be true of the Alan Cumming character on The Traitors<\/em>, in terms of what he puts those poor people through,\u201d the true Cumming says throughout a go to to Vanity Fair<\/em>\u2019s workplace. \u201cSometimes we do a mission, I obviously know what they are. [Producers] talked me through. But when we actually come to do it, I think, \u2018Oh, my God. Did I<\/em> make these people do that?\u2019 The last one in this season is so insane and terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n Cumming\u2019s campy, tartan-covered host, whose frequent crooning of the phrase \u201cmurrrrder<\/em>\u201d has turn into the present\u2019s unofficial tagline, helped make The Traitors<\/em> appointment viewing<\/a>, and a two-time Emmy winner. Last yr, Cumming personally gained Emmys each for internet hosting and producing the sequence, upsetting Drag Race<\/em><\/a> and breaking RuPaul<\/strong>\u2019s eight-year profitable streak as host.<\/p>\n The present returns to its sprawling Scottish citadel with its requisite melting pot of actuality stars\u2014hailing from The Bachelor,<\/em> Bravo, Survivor<\/em>, Big Brother<\/em>, and, this season, even a queer British royal. New twists abound, together with the late arrivals of previously-unannounced solid members Wes Bergmann<\/strong> of The Challenge<\/em> (and, extra not too long ago, House of Villains<\/em>), in addition to Big Brother<\/em>\u2019s Derrick Levasseur<\/strong>, who enter as Faithfuls. Meanwhile, Rob Mariano<\/strong> of Survivor<\/em> and Deal or No Deal Island<\/em> takes his place as a Traitor among the many beforehand tapped Bob The Drag Queen<\/strong> from Drag Race<\/em>, Survivor<\/em>\u2019s Carolyn Wiger<\/strong>, and Big Brother<\/em>\u2019s Danielle Reyes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Traitors<\/em>\u2019 core premise stays: A bunch of Faithfuls workforce as much as banish the treacherous, murdering Traitors amongst them in pursuit of a $250,000 money prize. By the top of the primary three episodes, the Real Housewives<\/em> faction has been focused, with Dorinda Medley<\/strong> of New York City and Chanel Ayan<\/strong> of Dubai as first homicide victims. Meanwhile, Bachelor in Paradise<\/em> host Wells Adams<\/strong> and Survivor<\/em>\u2019s Tony Vlachos<\/strong>, each Faithfuls, have been banished on the roundtable, leaving the Traitors untouched by elimination.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s so many psychological layers to this that just keep revealing themselves,\u201d says the 59-year-old Cumming. \u201cIt\u2019s maddening. It\u2019s almost like they\u2019re drugged. They take a Traitor\u2019s potion. And then there\u2019s me, just encouraging it all, and cajoling them. Also laughing at them as well\u2014like, a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n The Tony-winning Scot, greatest recognized for his performances in Broadway\u2019s Cabaret<\/em>, TV\u2019s The Good Wife<\/em>, and the cult-classic movie Romy and Michele\u2019s High School Reunion<\/em>, has taken to being \u201cStern Daddy\u201d with the contestants. \u201cI\u2019m always telling them to be quiet,\u201d Cumming tells VF<\/em>. \u201cI make it all, \u2018This is the roundtable. This is hallowed ground<\/em>,\u2019 things like that, just to get them to shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n