Traitors star got a burner phone to deal with fame – then police turned up

Spoiler warning: This article contains details of the new series of The Traitors.

Adjusting to post-Traitors fame can be difficult to manage, but one star of the show admitted the police were called after she tried to buy a burner phone to help manage her social media.

After the show began airing Fiona Hughes, 62, from Swansea, said she opened an Instagram account with the help of her son - but was advised to get a burner phone to manage it.

"I haven't got a clue with anything like that, but somebody told me not to have it on my own mobile phone, to get a burner phone," she admitted.

"I did say to them, but I thought it was only drug addicts and gun dealers that had burner phones and they said to me 'no, you need one for your social media'."

"So I went into town, into a shop, and I asked for a burner phone.

"The man went into the back of the shop. I was just looking around, and two police officers turned up then and said to me, 'have you asked for a burner phone'."

"And I said, 'yes, the man's gone out the back to get it'. And they said, 'Can I ask you why you want a burner phone'."

"I said, I need it for social media," she told Traitors Uncloaked on Friday after her dramatic banishment.

"And they said, 'so why have you asked for a burner phone, why don't you ask for a pay as you go phone'."

Chuckling as she retold the story, Fiona said: "Now do I look like the type?"

"Well you didn't look like a Traitor Fiona," replied former traitor Amanda Lovett.

While Fiona's time in the castle was short lived, the 62-year-old left jaws on the floor after her very public run in with fellow traitor, Rachel, when she called her out as a Traitor.

Friday's episode opened with a tense confrontation in the turret between the pair, something which the local government officer said she didn't anticipate.

"I wasn't nervous going into the turret. I wanted to have a bit of a joke with Rachel, but Rachel was so intense when I went in," Fiona said.

"So the only thing I could do in the turret was to say 'well, come on then, bring the game on', because there was only ever going to be two outcomes – I was going to go, or she was going to go – and either way, it was going to happen.

"So it was out of my hands, and I was quite happy to go along with the flow," she added.

After the banishment of fellow Welsh contestant Hugo on Wednesday, the secret traitor - whose identity was previously unknown to everyone, including fellow traitors and even the viewers - was revealed as Fiona.

She joined the other two traitors, Stephen and Rachel, but admitted their existing alliance made her own position more vulnerable, and she didn't trust Rachel.