The Traitors star Dan has revealed he’s a bit of a diva (Picture: BBC / Studio Lambert)
The Traitors fans have been left shocked to discover a secret side to one of the contestants.
The beloved BBC gameshow is coming to an end in just a few days, as we’ll find out whether Ultimate Traitor Minah Shannon and her new recruit Charlotte Berman are taking home the full prizepot.
After a series of blistering betrayals, manipulation and lies, only a handful of Faithful remain, and those that do have so far proven to be wrong with their suspicions.
One of the few who did ponder over whether Minah was actually on the dark side was Dan Bird, before he was outcast from the group and banished in a dramatic roundtable moment.
The 33-year-old bank risk manager from Liverpool had been keeping us all entertained with his eyerolls and one-liners, and had fans convinced he might make it all the way to the end.
The bank risk manager was a Faithful on the gameshow (Picture: BBC / Studio Lambert)
He became the king of eyerolls (Picture: BBC)
But unfortunately, his time on Claudia Winkleman’s gameshow came to an end.
Now that he’s on the outside, Dan is still keeping fans very entertained, with a rather different side to himself.
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The Faithful has racked up 16,000 followers on TikTok, where he posts incredibly joyful dancing videos.
One clip is him bopping to RaeLynn’s Shake Your Boots, while another is actually from 2021, which Dan recreated just days ago.
Dan has shown a very different side of himself on TikTok (Picture: BBC)
Fans don’t quite know what to think, and neither do his co-stars, it seems, as banished Traitor Armani Gouveia wrote: ‘Not how I expected to see you coming up on my FYP.’
‘We know this DIVA,’ one fan, Katie, commented on one of Dan’s clips.
‘okayyyyy he’s got the movessss,’ Chloe said, while Denisa wrote: ‘What an icon.’
‘Loving this vibe diva!’ Grace added, with Tara saying: ‘I was not expecting this lol.’
We are so here for it (Picture: TikTok)
He’s been labelled a ‘diva’ (Picture: TikTok)
Dan has stunned fans with his dance clips (Picture: BBC)
‘This feels like a fever dream,’ Lukas meanwhile said, while account @LilDevil wrote: ‘yasss slayer Diva Dan.’
Sharing his clips on Reddit, user @VinegaryMildew said: ‘Where was this fun Diva Dan? It’s like a completely different person!’
@verysadfrosty replied: ‘The game brings out the most intense versions of them, or at least some of them. Anyhow, I love how all the other contestants post loads of traitors content on their tiktoks, meanwhile Dan has like 4 random dance clips, lol.’
‘I love that he’s just doing his own thing, doing what makes him happy 🙂 I wish we’d seen his passion for dancing on the show!’ @ScreenHype said.
The contestant was banished in a dramatic roundtable (Picture: BBC)
Dan has been also been praised for ‘changing lives’ with a book about his experiences living with autism (Picture: BBC)
As well as his iconic dancing videos, Dan has been praised for ‘changing lives’ with a book about his experiences living with autism, which was published before his appearance on The Traitors.
‘There’s almost no chance you’ll see this, but I just wanted to say that you’ve genuinely changed my life,’ lxmonsunshine posted on Reddit.
‘School is absolute hell, but reading your book helped me in ways I can’t even explain. Knowing there are people like you, who’ve lived through what you have, is just incredible.
‘When I saw you on the lineup, I literally had to double take- like “book guy??? BOOK GUY!!”. I confess I did cry a bit when you got voted out.
‘I know this probably doesn’t mean much, but you’ve truly saved one girl’s life. Thank you,’ she added.
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Go Neuro Way: An Autistic Person’s Adventure Travelling The World shares his travels across five continents and offers advice to ‘other autistic people, carers of neurodiverse individuals and anyone who enjoys travelling as much as he does’.
After being diagnosed with autism aged 27, he said ‘so many of the challenges he’d experienced in life made sense’, and he’s now adapted his travelling based on needs and challenges he faces, and ‘found ways to harness his autistic strengths to make his overseas explorations more wholesome, memorable and personalised’.
After his brutal banishment, Dan told Metro about his approach to the game, saying: ‘Autistic people aren’t devoid of empathy, but I just went into the game knowing it was a game and knowing that I just didn’t want to be too emotional myself.’
‘As soon as I got an idea in my head, I just ran with it,’ he said. ‘And that’s a massive strength in some ways in life because, from my experience, my autism means that I’m incredibly determined and focused on our top goal, and I don’t really let anything divert me.
‘But in a game like this, you have to be more flexible than that, and there were certain times when I had suspicions of people and I just wouldn’t let up and I wouldn’t see alternative viewpoints.’
The Traitors continues on Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
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