The Traitors’ Mollie on betrayal, backlash and that shocking ending: ‘People have this fantasy that I fancy Harry – it’s not true’

Oh, Mollie.” This was the top trending phrase on Twitter/X in the UK last Friday night, as 6.9 million of us tuned in to watch the finale of The Traitors, and saw contestant Mollie Pearce being betrayed by her best friend on the BBC smash-hit show. For four weeks, we had watched Harry Clark conceal his role as a Traitor with alarming ease, ruthlessly picking off his victims – Traitors and Faithfuls alike – one by one.

Mollie (along with most of the contestants) never doubted him until the very end, when it seemed like she might have cottoned on to his Traitorish ways. But in an agonising, last-minute U-turn, she stuck by her bestie, refusing to banish him from the Scottish castle. Cue Harry winning the whole £95,000 jackpot. And Mollie bursting into tears. More than a week later, the country has still not moved on. But Mollie has.

“Honestly, I’m. So I’m not going to beat myself up about it.”