'The Traitors Canada' Season 2: 'Farming For Love' star Kirkland says the Faithfuls are 'doomed' after spat
"I was there to play a game and I was playing hard. I don't know if everybody was doing the same," Kirkland said
Things at the manor got fiery on CTV's The Traitors Canada Season 2, specifically between Farming For Love star Kirkland, Tranna from Big Brother Célébrités and Canada's Drag Race alum Melinda. It was clear going into this week's roundtable that Tranna was leading the charge on suspicions of Kirkland being a Traitor, but his banishment proved that her instinct was misguided when he was revealed to the group as a Faithful.
"I was there to play a game and I was playing hard," Kirkland told Yahoo Canada. "I don't know if everybody was doing the same. That kind of took me out."
Reflecting on why Tranna had it out for him, Kirkland is still confused about why she was so adamant that he was a Traitor, particularly after they were close at the start of the show.
"It was really strange," Kirkland said. "I don't know if it was that conversation that Tranna had with Neda on Episode 3, where she said she's afraid of being murdered, something maybe there switched, because I still can't figure [it] out"
"She says that people were bringing my name up and everything, but she was leading that charge, along with Melinda. So I was like, you're making this up out of thin air. ... She just maybe used me to put herself more in the spotlight, or I don't know, just had really bad confirmation bias going on."
In terms of Melinda seemingly teaming up with Tranna on the "Kirkland is a Traitor" bandwagon, Kirkland revealed that despite being in the car together at the start of the show, Melinda never spoke to him.
"I just don't know if Melinda was there to play the game or she was after a viral moment, because she came to the roundtables with these prepared speeches," Kirkland said. "It wasn't in the last episode's edit, but obviously a lot went [down] there that I voted for her, but she never spoke to me and it was really disappointing, because I was taken out by someone who, we drove in together."
"Melinda didn't speak to me the whole time we were there, she'd run out of the room and things like that. I just couldn't figure it out. And then Tranna, they were just off in the corner talking about me all day long. ... But no one was saying another name that day. ... No one wanted to put a name out because they saw Tranna, Melinda coming for someone so hard, so that scared them."
Why Henoc was a threat to the Traitors
Before we got to Kirkland being banished from the manor, former linebacker for the Toronto Argonauts, Henoc, was murdered by the Traitors.
"I'm being told that I was a little bit too nice, which I don't know if that was my downfall, but I want to believe that part of it had to do with the fact that I was able to rally most of the group against Mary Jo on Episode 3," Henoc said. "That's pretty ... threatening to a Traitor. I didn't need two or three days in order to rally the troops."
Reflecting on what it feels like when you're a Faithful at the roundtable and you find out you've banished one of your own, like what happened to Kirkland, Henoc shared that it just makes players think about all the conversations they've had in the manor.
"You say, 'Oh my goodness, I completely had that wrong,' and then you try to replay every conversation you've had with everyone at the table," Henoc said. "You only have capacity for so much to keep in your in your head, but that's what happens."
"Then it becomes, the longer you stay, the more you start to doubt everything that everybody tells you."
The most deceptive Traitors
Looking at how well the Traitors have been playing the game, both Kirkland and Henoc believe that, while Kyra, Michael John and Neda are still in the game, some have been better Traitors than others.
"I had a suspicion with Neda, I had an inkling early on with Michael John, but not once did I ever think that Kyra was going to be a Traitor," Henoc said. "I think she should be in Hollywood. She should literally pick up and just go and and try her luck, I think she'll do really well."
"But my mindset, if I were to still be alive, was to kind of bring a little bit more attention to the people that were more quiet."
"I had watched Big Brother so for me, Neda was someone that I 100 per cent had my eye on," Kirkland said in a separate interview. "I would float her name out, but I don't know who's watched Big Brother in there, and so no one was latching on."
"I was a little bit blind to Kyra because anything she was coming for me for, I assumed it just related back to Rabecca. And then Michael John, there were some moments. ... I spent that last day, unfortunately, in a car with him to and from the mission. You don't see it on the edit, but we're in that car for a long time so we talked about a lot of things. And when he speaks about me at the end, giving me praises, all this, I just didn't know he was a Traitor. So I opened up to the wrong person at the end there, he saw me as a sitting duck that had me isolated all day long."
Kirkland on the remaining Faithfuls: 'They're doomed'
In terms of the future for the Faithfuls, and their likelihood to make it to the end of the competition, Kirkland thinks "they're doomed."
"They have to start playing," Kirkland. "They were scared of being murdered. ... So everyone, the Faithfuls, were playing for the Traitors at this point."
"It's a game about instinct and trust. So if you're playing a game that's quite deceitful and lying, you're really only helping the Traitors, and you're helping yourself maybe get further, but you're not playing a winning Faithful game, because by the end, the Traitors have such an upper hand, because no one trusts you, either."
Henoc's advice for the Faithfuls in the game, look out for the quiet players.
"Pay attention to those who are extremely quiet. Let the quiet speak,'" he said. "And pay attention to that more than the people that are extremely loud and talk a lot."
