Lawyer Walter Damen already referred to him in his interview last week: Dirk Draulans, biologist and co-candidate in the VTM program ‘De Verraders’. Hannelore also quickly mentions his name in this conversation. It must be that Draulans left a strong impression. “Dirk would no doubt have a very interesting theory as to why so many candidates suspected me from day one,” Hannelore says. “How one person puts forward a traitor and how that name spreads among the others like wildfire.” (For those who haven’t seen ‘The Traitors’: there are eighteen participants, of whom fifteen allies and three traitors. They ‘kill’ at night and thus try to reduce the group of allies. At a round table, the group also votes every day who they want to be banned. The traitors win the game if they can take out enough allies or vice versa. The viewer knows who is who.)