The Traitors' Bob Harper's Surprising Last Request: "Give Me One More Outfit!"
The former The Biggest Loser trainer reveals his big regret of the game.
Fitness expert Bob Harper spent 17 seasons as a trainer and eventual host of NBC's reality weight-loss series The Biggest Loser, so he knows plenty about playing to the camera.
But Bob's six-episode stint on Season 3 of The Traitors playing as a Faithful delivered a bitter pill when he was murdered by the Traitors. Then to add insult to injury, Bob's exit from the game in the wee hours of the night wasted what could have been a fierce fashion moment.
"I was all about the fashion, more so than ever," Bob told NBC Insider. "So when I walked into the room and saw my murder note, I was like, 'No one's gonna get to really appreciate the outfit. Give me just one more outfit!'"
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Of course, when your time in the castle is done, you're done. No fabulous walks of shame, or tearful goodbyes. But Bob still had a lot to say about what he learned about himself while playing The Traitors, being a pragmatic voter, and his one regret.
Bob Harper embraced being a great Faithful
Once host Alan Cumming assigned this season's players as Traitors or Faithfuls in Episode 1, Bob said he quickly got over his initial wish to be a Traitor.
"What I forgot about myself is that I don't lie very well at all," he said, laughing. "If I start to lie, I will start to stutter. I am just not a person who could live, eat, and breathe the lies you've got to be [telling] as a Traitor."
With that realization, Bob said he embraced his role as a Faithful and hoped to make it all the way to the end.
"I was a really strong Faithful," he assessed. "My main thing was to just be myself, lean into the people that I trusted."
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Although he wasn't initially right when identifying Traitors — Bob was instrumental in incorrectly getting Wells Adams Banished — and he didn't play all of the Mission games, self-admittedly, at his A-game, he was a pragmatic voter.
"What you really didn't get to see a lot was that I was very much the voice of reason at those Round Tables," Bob said. "People looked to me because I could be rational. I'm a very pragmatic person in that way. I really tried to take it all in."
Bob as a Bambi? Was that ever on the table?
By Episode 5, Bob had gotten close with, and trusted, the "Bambi" alliance of Nikki Garcia, Chrishell Stause, and Gabby Windey. He even made a tongue-in-cheek bid to become part of their pack. However, he kind of betrayed Nikki in the Round Table by voting for her Banishment, only for her to reveal she was a Faithful.
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"If I had anything to do over in the show, that night, I would not have put Nikki's name down," he said of that vote. "I would have put Rob down. At that point, I really did believe that Rob was a Traitor, but I know that the whole house was gunning after Nikki. She's so reserved; she's like a surgeon that way, and it threw up so many red flags.
"Maybe if I would have put Rob's name down, he would not have murdered me that night because it was all Rob," he continued. "But you know, who knows? But I'm gonna make a big statement, if Rob hadn't murdered me, he would have gone home instead of Wes [Bergmann]. I would have talked to people that I was in the alliance with."
New episodes of The Traitors Season 3 premiere on Peacock on Thursdays at 9/8c, with the season finale and reunion premiering on March 6.
All episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream right now on Peacock.
