FAMILY REUNION
The Traitors’ Diane and Ross reunite and reveal secret exchange in funeral scene after fans complain
Diane revealed she bodged her final goodbye to Ross at her emotional funeral
THE Traitors' mother and son pair Diane and Ross Carson were finally reunited last night on sister show Uncloaked.
Videographer Ross, 28, delivered a huge bombshell when he was banished from the round table at the end of last night's episode.
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He finally told the remaining players that he was related to Diane leaving them gobsmacked.
Immediately after the programme aired, viewers watched Ross and Diane, 63, reflect on the game and the emotional moment the former had to attend his own mum's funeral as she was murdered by slow-working poison.
During that moving episode, players learnt that one person had been poisoned by a Traitor the night before.
By the end of a long procession, in which the contestants discovered who was safe, three remaining at risk players were made to lie in coffins while the safe players placed a rose in the box of the person they thought had been killed.
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When Ross went to put a flower in his mum's coffin she had a brief parting message for him, whispering the word "bye".
Speaking to Uncloaked host Ed Gamble, Ross said: "It was a mixture of emotions because at the end of the day you are seeing your mum get put in a coffin. It's still a secret at this point.
"It is emotional, but at the same time you can't show too much emotion because the other contestants will be like 'why is Ross crying? I didn't know him and Diane were so close'."
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Diane then said: "I was waiting for him to look over.
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"And I wanted to say 'love you' but I didn't want to move my mouth twice.
"You thought I'd said 'Miles', so you didn't even think I'd said bye."
Traitors Harry Clark and Andrew Jenkins recruited Ross to the dark side on Friday with neither of the pair knowing Diane, who was “killed” in an earlier episode, was his mum.
As Harry bragged, “Diane was getting too clever, she had to go”, Ross vowed vengeance and fans likened the plot to the Bard’s tragedy.
After leaving the show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman at Scotland’s Ardross Castle, he said: “Being a Traitor is hard work, every day you’ve got to switch it on.
“The whole scenario is intense.
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“I’m glad I got to play but I was a Traitor for a whole two minutes.
“I didn’t really have a game plan because I didn’t know what to expect.
“Once the game starts there are so many things going on and so many people trying to impose their strategy, your own goes out of the window.
“Even if I did have a strategy, your strategy goes out of the window.”
Diane was a fans’ favourite as they dedicated online memes to her death by “poison” chalice as part of the murder mystery game.
We didn’t want to reveal that we were related because it would instantly sow a seed of mistrust
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But none of the other players knew Ross was the retired teacher’s son, after the pair secretly agreed not to tell.
He said: “Going into the game, the only strategy I really had was with my mum.
“We said we would never reveal that we were mother and son, that we were going to try and link up as much as possible.
“We didn’t want to reveal that we were related because it would instantly sow a seed of mistrust.
“If we had said from the get-go that we were mother and son, other people would have thought that it put us at an advantage.
“As soon as the competition mindset kicks in, it would have made us vulnerable.
“That was it, we just didn’t want to give anyone any opportunity to vote us out.”
Their plan did not pay off, though, with Ross stalling just two days before tomorrow night’s finale.
But he added: “We’re near to the end of the game now so leaving at this point feels pretty good, as I genuinely thought I wouldn’t make it past day two or three.
“I was hoping I wouldn’t be the first one to go so anything after day two, three or four felt like borrowed time.
“My mum being there at the start was comforting but also, everyone acts differently in front of their mum, don’t they?
“I act differently when I’m just with friends as opposed to how I would act if mum was there, so it felt a little bit like that.
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“I knew my mum was keeping a watchful eye, I could feel her gaze on the side of my head every so often.”
Ross’s departure leaves just two Traitors.
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