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The Traitors’ bosses branded ‘cruel’ after Ross is forced to attend mum Diane’s ‘funeral’
She exclusively told The Sun why she thought her son had given the game away
THE Traitors fans have lashed out at BBC show bosses after Ross was forced to attend his mum Diane's "funeral."
The duo have kept their family link under wraps to everyone - aside from fans who were in on their plot all along.
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Yet after it was eventually revealed on Wednesday's episode that Diane, 63, had drunk fizzy rose from the poisoned chalice - in one of the most eagerly-anticipated episodes of a TV show ever - her fate was sealed.
Despite the former schoolteacher arriving at breakfast to the surprise of the trio of Traitors, The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman, 52, told how the murdered star would die a slow death.
She admitted the identity of the victim would be kept under wraps until a grand funeral service - which many had already reckoned was fit for fan-favourite Diane.
Yet with video director Ross, 28, forced to watch his mum clamber into a coffin, something didn't sit right with viewers.
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This only accelerated as he threw a black rose into the coffin before the lid was firmly shut when her "death" came to light.
One took to X to write: "How cruel that they got Ross to attend Diane’s funeral when he will actually have to do that one day."
Another posted: "Not only have I had to watch my favourite faithful go but I’ve had to watch poor Ross see his own Mother be buried at a funeral."
A third then put: "The fact that Ross is having to watch his own mother's funeral."
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One then mused: "But IMAGINE if Diane’s murder and state funeral send off subsequently resulted in her son Ross becoming a traitor?
"Then he avenges his dead mother by taking them down from the inside until he wins the show.
"Shakespeare couldn’t write this."
Another joked: "Truly mental to make Ross go to a mock funeral for his own mother. Insane, I love it."
Shortly after her on-screen passing Diane opened up on her time on the show.
Diane, from Lancashire, exclusively told The Sun: “It just feels amazing that I got this far.
"I really thought I was going out after a three-way tie at the round table earlier on in the game.
“I did a lot better than I expected.”
Talking about sharing her BBC TV experience with her son, she added: "I would have loved to have more fun with Ross, telling stories about my son and him telling stories about his mum.
“I think when Ross said he had deliberately got rid of Sonja was probably my biggest surprise.
“He was getting rid of her because she came from Lytham in Lancashire and that might blow our secret — he’d already started the secret incorrectly because he was supposed to tell everybody he came from Blackpool, but he immediately told everybody he came from Lytham!
“That threw my plan because I was going to tell people I was from Lytham, so I said that I came from Ireland.
“So, when he said that about Sonja, I remember my jaw dropping.”
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Previously, viewers were convinced that Claudia's outfit offered a clue to Diane's fate.
Meanwhile, axed Traitor Ash recently suggested Diane has a second connection to the cast - as well as Ross - in an exclusive chat with The Sun.
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