There was no fooling Tamra Judge over who amongst them was a Faithful or a Traitor in The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Tamra, who played as a Faithful in Season 2 of the Emmy Award-winning competition series The Traitors, saw right through Heather Dubrow’s games when the Housewives gathered for their own roundtable meet in the August 29, 2024, episode of RHOC. Heather told Bravo’s The Daily Dish that she was “so mad” to learn she was chosen as the sole Traitor of their fun.
“I did not want to be picked; it felt like a lose-lose to me,” Heather told The Daily Dish. “I’d seen the show, and I’m like, ‘Alright, so I have to mess things up, but not too much that they know it’s me.’”
All about Tamra’s time on The Traitors
For The Traitors, Tamra headed for the Scottish Highlands where she and a handful of Bravolebrities — including Larsa Pippen (The Real Housewives of Miami), Shereé Whitfield (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Phaedra Parks (The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Married to Medicine), and Kate Chastain (Below Deck) — competed against other reality TV stars for a jackpot prize of up to $250,000.
While staying in the lavish castle, players are tasked with sorting who among them is an innocent "Faithful" or one of three "Traitors" looking to take the prize money for themselves in the whodunnit-style game. Unfortunately, Tamra was “murdered” only five episodes in by order of The Traitors.
A teary-eyed Tamra took the elimination on the chin, as seen the episode now available to watch on Peacock.
“That’s OK, I had the experience,” she told producers at the time. “I got to be in this amazing castle. I got to see a little bit of Scotland, and it’s time to go home and be with my kids and my husband.”
She said that because the competition series was “so cutthroat,” it was “way worse” than anything she’d experienced on Housewives. Her only hope in leaving was that none of her fellow Bravolebrities were Traitors.
But, SPOILER ALERT, Phaedra was one of the three to send her packing. Tamra's "murder" was arguably a result of Phaedra sacrificing her to throw the other players off her own Traitorous scent.
Tamra later said on the Two Ts In A Pod podcast, which she hosts alongside ex-Wife Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), that she suspected Big Brother’s Dan Gheesling of giving her the axe.
