Two Essex men named among new Traitors contestants

Two men from Essex have been named among the contestants for the new series of The Traitors.

Adam and Jack will join 20 others at Ardross Castle near Inverness as the show returns on New Year's Day.

The fourth regular series follows last year's hugely successful celebrity spin-off.

Personal trainer Jack, 29, said he had "tactics for everything", while 34-year-old builder Adam warned people would be "unable to tell if I'm lying".

Jack said he was a massive fan of the show and signed up because he wanted to do something outside of his comfort zone.

He hoped to benefit from people's "preconceived ideas" of someone from Essex.

"If I live it up and ham it up a bit, no-one will anticipate me to be the one with all the tactics," he said.

"I already have a whole section in my tactics book called 'brutal tactics', which are ones I'll only employ if I feel that things are slipping, but I've got these tactics that I know will work."

If he won the game, he said the money would go towards a deposit for a property, which he said would be "life-changing".

Adam described himself as a "very outspoken, dramatic sort of person" and applied for the show as he liked to "out-think people".

"I've got the sort of brain that thinks of something 100 times before anyone else has," he said.

"I have to win. My boy beat me on FIFA the other day and I was not happy!"

If he won the show, he would take his family to Florida for a "holiday of a lifetime".

Claudia Winkleman will return to host the series, which launches on BBC One and iPlayer at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.

Winkleman said: "All I will say is there's something new, and what happens in this series is truly extraordinary, with moments that made me gasp."

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