After being murdered on The Traitors, Jeremy Collins weighed in on that shocking banishment twist — and what it means for Rob “Boston Rob” Mariano moving forward.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Jeremy, 46, reacted to Boston Rob’s decision to banish fellow Traitor Bob the Drag Queen.
“I think Wes [Bergmann] sussed it out real quick and now he’s just passing that around. So I think Rob is skating on the ice again,” Jeremy noted. “Rob, you should have worked with me and this wouldn’t be happening right now. Because I would have been like, ‘He’s not a Traitor. He’s good. Leave him alone.”
Jeremy suggested that Boston Rob “watch out now” because he has “people coming for” him, adding, “Derrick [Levasseur] actually would tell me, ‘Listen, I’m not a Traitor but one of those other two that came in are Traitor — Wes or Boston Rob. He’s telling people so Rob is now in trouble. He has to watch out now.”
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The newest episode, which premiered on Thursday, January 17, kicked off with a murder in plain sight when the Traitors — Bob the Drag Queen, Danielle Reyes, Carolyn Wiger and Boston Rob — wrote three names down to be on the shortlist. Jeremy, Nikki Bella and Ciara Miller were the final choices, but it was the Survivor alum who didn’t make it.
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“I forgive everybody. I’m a gamer so there’s no hard feelings on anything,” Jeremy told Us about being murdered in the fourth episode. “I do like that Carolyn was crying though. I had her back. We had a really good sit-down and I was like, ‘Carolyn, you shouldn’t worry about anybody else. You are a beautiful soul. Don’t let anyone stop your shine.’ I just think it was bad gameplay because I had all three of their backs.”
Jeremy does have one regret. After Jeremy, Nikki, 40, and Ciara, 28, were put in coffins before the Traitors chose who to murder, they were given the chance to plead their case. Jeremy surprised his fellow contestants when he said he would help the Traitors if he was kept around — despite his status as a Faithful.
“It was a twist that I wasn’t prepared for. I didn’t think I was going to be in there right away. I go in and then I’m like, ‘OK, one of these other two are Traitors.’ So I’m running that through my mind, and then [host Alan Cumming] tells us the rules of what’s going to happen,” he recalled. “A lot of stuff is going on. I said that I would help the Traitors if they save me.”
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Jeremy continued: “As soon as I say it, I’m like, ‘Damn, I shouldn’t have said that. Now if they do save me now I have to go and fix it with 20 other people right now.’ It was a lot going on. Then as soon as I was out of the coffin, I thought how I should have said, ‘I don’t talk much, but I did name one person that if I’m gone tomorrow, that person is the Traitor.’”
Jeremy later realized he should have stuck to not speaking too much at the beginning of the season.
“I do a lot of listening and watching. I wish I did that a little bit more,” he said before sharing a story about how his game plan shifted. “That’s how we work in Survivor. We get alliances and I usually don’t do that in my survival game. I would go to each one individually and talk to them [but not in groups]. I think I just talked too much, that’s all.”
But when it comes to Boston Rob, 48, Jeremy doesn’t think he would have had any success even if he tried a different approach, adding, “I played with Rob before on Survivor and I wanted to work with him on The Traitors. … But he never wanted to work with me, ever. So coming into this, I was like, ‘Let’s work together.’ And that’s who he is. He doesn’t want to work with me. So he doesn’t play well and he doesn’t share his toys.”
Jeremy still had a great time watching Boston Rob turn on Bob the Drag Queen, 38, even though the Traitors were on the same team.
“I thought it was great television. If they kept me — if Bob kept me — I would’ve been on Bob’s side,” Jeremy told Us. “I would’ve fought for Bob. I just think I was gone too soon, and I think it was a bad decision. If I waited one more [challenge] and that happened, it would’ve blown open the game and I would’ve been off and running.”
New episodes of The Traitors will be released on Peacock Thursdays until March 6.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi