Season 4 of The Traitors only just kicked off, but there have already been several shocking eliminations. This post contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Traitors season 4. Survivor fans were particularly surprised when legendary player Rob Cesternino became the second murder victim of the season when Traitors Candiace Dillard Bassett, Lisa Rinna and Rob Rausch targeted him in episode 3. Former Traitor Bob the Drag Queen, however, thinks Cesternino, 47, had it coming, given that he immediately started yapping about a murder in plain sight to anyone who would listen. "Watching that back, how do you feel like that decision played out for you?" Bob, 39, quipped during the Friday, January 9, debut episode of his and "Boston Rob" Mariano's official Traitors recap podcast. 'Traitors' Fans Have Mixed Feelings About Season 4 After 2 Major Murders "So, what you're saying is that it's a bad idea to tell the Traitors when a murder in plain sight is gonna be happening? That's not good?" Cesternino said with a laugh after Bob and Rob, 50, played a clip of him asking Candiace, 39, whether she'd started the suspicious conga line. (She had.) "Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, yeah, that's a bad idea to tell the Traitors, 'I know what you're up to,' and then being like, 'Weren't you the one?'" Bob replied. Cesternino, who competed on Survivor: The Amazon in 2003 and Survivor: All-Stars in 2004, admitted that he might have made a mistake by showing his hand so early. Rob Cesternino. Euan Cherry/PEACOCK "Hmm, yeah, hindsight is 20/20 on that," he joked before praising the Real Housewives of Potomac alum for her skills. "I think Candiace is an incredible player. And I felt very good about her, but in my own journaling after, I really started to think about, like, 'You know what? Candiace could be a Traitor.'" Bob, who was the first Traitor to be banished in season 3, asked Cesternino how he knew that a murder in plain sight was happening that night in the castle. Bob the Drag Queen Defends Targeting Housewives on 'The Traitors' "I just started to get an inkling of, like, 'Oh, I wonder if this could just be one of those nights,'" he explained. Despite his conversation with Candiace, Cesternino thought he was safe until the moment he saw the letter saying he'd been murdered. "I didn't think I got recruited!" he recalled. "I was very disappointed. I was very confident when I was getting ready for breakfast that morning, because I felt like, 'I know the Traitors murdered in plain sight and nobody did anything to me.' I didn't drink out of a cup, nobody touched my face, nobody said a weird thing to me, so I really felt very confident." While he didn't get to play the game for as long as he wanted to, Cesternino said he has no regrets about his time in the castle. Which Players Were Banished or Murdered During Season 4 of 'The Traitors'? "I had the best time when I was there," he told Bob and Rob. "It was such a dream come true to get the chance to go and play. I don't have any regrets. And honestly, I don't know necessarily what I could have done differently." As for who he's rooting for, he pointed to Big Brother's Tiffany Mitchell and RuPaul's Drag Race alum Monét X Change as two contestants he's rooting for this season - but conga lines are off the table forever. "I don't care if you guys are in the conga line, or Alan [Cumming] is in the conga line. Never again!" Cesternino joked. "I'm not doing the conga line, I'm not doing the limbo, forget it." New episodes of The Traitors air Thursdays on Peacock.
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