The Traitors returned for its third series on Wednesday night with a new group of contestants competing at Ardross Castle, though some have already left the game on the show

The first contestant to be ‘murdered’ on the new series of the Traitors’ new series has broken her silence after fans were left fuming by her exit.

The BBC show returned for its third series on Wednesday night and a twist just minutes into the episode saw three contestants forced to leave the game early. The remaining 22 contestants later arrived at Ardross Castle in Scotland.

Call centre manager Minah, 29, retired opera singer Linda, 70, and financial investigator Armani, 27, were then chosen by host Claudia Winkleman, 52, to be the Traitors. For their first ‘murder,’ the trio chose to eliminate communication scientist Yin, 34. Armani said: “She’s just got too much brains and I just see it being a big pain in the a*** down the line.”

Following her departure, Yin appeared on companion show the Traitors: Uncloaked. She said: “I never thought I’d be referred to as a pain in the a***. That phrase did not cross my mind.” When asked about hearing the reason for her elimination, she said: “It is [bittersweet]. Very devastating still but I think the funny thing is … I honestly don’t think I came across as that smart having now seen the episode. I think if anything I looked confused […] And that was deliberate.”

She later said: “I’m not a good analyst of my own articulation and how I hold myself. […] So I must have missed out on signals I was sending through even how I put sentences together, the words I was using, for example, must have given away that intellectual side of it.”

The Traitors returned for its new series this week and Yin became the first contestant to be ‘murdered’ ( 
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Asked her reaction to finding out the identities of the Traitors when she watched the episode, Yin shared on the spin-off show: “I was absolutely shocked. It actually proves that murdering me wasn’t the best move because I had no idea.”

Yin went on to suggest that fashion choices among the contestants can speak volumes. She said: “This is a show about communication. Through the portraits themselves that are in the breakfast room and how you dress for day one especially, you communicate more through those two things, I believe, than through what you say or do, in that first day, right, where there’s so much chaos and noise.”

She continued: “How you’ve chosen to package yourself, the colours and what you’re wearing, in terms of is it a dress [or] a suit? is it slouchy? Is it sharp edged? It gives a lot away.”

Discussing having brought various options for herself, she said: “I wanted to be able to weaponise and communicate through the clothing that I was wearing and accessories. […] That was all deliberate because you can communicate so much more through that, than through the actions and words I would say, or at least as much, right? That’s why I had the arsenal prepared – it was to have as much flexibility of communication.”