Francesca Rowan-Plowden was thwarted in the closing moments of the third series of the hit BBC show and walked away without a chunk of the cash prize.
The mum of four from Battle had been granted the never-before-seen power of the “seer”, meaning she could find out secretly if a player was a faithful or traitor.
This power would ultimately be her downfall.
Francesca, 44, chose to ask Charlotte Berman to reveal her true identity as “an affirmation of a faithful” so that she could “take a sigh of relief that I know one person is 100 per cent faithful and it’s the person I always though it was”.
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In fact, Charlotte was revealed to be a traitor, providing Francesca with a very useful piece of knowledge that sat heavy on the interior designer’s shoulders.
Both came out of the meeting with different stories, leaving fellow finalists Alexander, Jake and Leanne confused as to who to believe.
Charlotte turned on her friend saying that Francesca was actually a traitor and was lying, while Francesca desperately tried to persuade the others she was telling the truth that Charlotte was a traitor.
At the round table business director Charlotte, who had been pretending to be Welsh before being made a traitor later in the series, was the first to be banished after she aroused suspicion from her fellow competitors.
But she successfully planted the seed of doubt about Francesca and she too was banished by winners Leanne Quigley and Jake Brown after they also banished former British diplomat Alexander Dragonetti.
In a change from previous years, contestants no longer revealed if they were faithfuls or traitors during the finale, so players did not know if there was a deceitful contestant still in their group.
An average audience of 7.4 million watched the former soldier and project manager triumph as faithfuls and receive a prize pot of £94,600.
The game involves the faithfuls attempting to banish the traitors, who murder during the night, and if left at the end undetected can take the whole prize of up to £120,000.
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