Warning: This text accommodates spoilers about episodes 4 and 5 on season 4 of The Traitors.

Michael Rapaport is a controversial and polarizing determine, and he introduced much more controversy with him into the fortress on this week’s episodes of The Traitors when he appeared to indicate that fellow contestant Colton Underwood was finest ready to lie and deceive as a Traitor as a result of he hid being homosexual for therefore lengthy.

The incident occurred through the episode 5 Roundtable. Figuring out Colton was accusing him of being a Traitor, Michael fired again.

“No person on this room could be higher at holding a secret than you,” Michael mentioned whereas pointing throughout the desk at his foe.

The remark gave the impression to be drawing consideration to the truth that Colton starred on and dated ladies on each The Bachelorette and The Bachelor earlier than later popping out as homosexual in 2021 after the truth star mentioned he was being blackmailed by a person who had threatened to launch a photograph of him.

“There it’s,” Colton responded to Michael’s insult. “You suppose it was enjoyable for 29 years of my life?”

Michael instantly tried to distance himself from the insinuation: “Oh no, no, no, no, no — that has nothing to do with it. I believe you got here into this recreation loving the thought of being a Traitor.”

However the injury was already performed and the blowback from his fellow castmates was swift.

“You possibly can’t blame someone being compelled right into a closet for almost all of their life,” Johnny Weir commented, with Maura Higgins and Yam Yam Arocho labeling it a “very low blow,” at the same time as Michael insisted that, “It wasn’t meant to be.” (To make issues worse, Rob Rausch additionally needed to inform Michael he was repeatedly utilizing the phrase commiserating incorrectly and that “Commiseration means to really feel sorry for somebody.”)

Even Natalie Anderson, who lived via the John Rocker expertise on Survivor: San Juan del Sur, had seen and had sufficient, telling Michael, “Right this moment, the way in which you spoke to Colton, for me, it’s sufficient to write down your title down. So I believe we must always simply get collectively and vote him out of right here.”

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And that’s precisely what the group did, banishing him with 11 out of 16 votes (with Ron Funches gathering the opposite 5.)

“You don’t make me really feel good,” mentioned Colton whereas casting his vote. “I don’t need you within the fortress.”

In the meantime, Johnny made it abundantly clear he didn’t care if he was voting out a Traitor or Devoted. “I don’t give a s— what you’re,” the Olympian informed Michael. “I simply need you out of my fortress.”

The incident mirrored the same one which occurred again in 2017 on a surprising episode of Survivor: Game Changers when contestant Jeff Varner publicly outed fellow participant Zeke Smith as being transgender, claiming the truth that Zeke didn’t inform his tribemates proved he was a liar.

“There’s deception right here,” Jeff informed the tribe then. “Deception that’s on ranges that these guys don’t even perceive. There’s extra.” He then turned to Zeke: “Why haven’t you informed anybody you’re transgender?”

The contestant then tried to brush apart the speedy criticism from others by claiming, “What I’m displaying is a deception.”

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Not like Jeff on Survivor, Michael claimed he was not making an attempt to attract a connection to Colton’s popping out and his play within the recreation, however his Traitors castmates didn’t appear to imagine him.

After being banished, the ousted participant sounded considerably contrite in his closing phrases to digicam. “It sucks, however I felt backed right into a nook and I attempted to struggle my method out of it,” he defined. “Possibly I fought too arduous. I meant what I meant inside the context of the sport. It had nothing to do together with his sexuality. I actually, severely apologize if I offended Colton or anyone in the home. That completely wasn’t my intention. I’m a fan of the sport. I performed arduous. And I performed a very good recreation, besides when it went a bit too far, which sucks."

There was no person there to commiserate with him on the time.

New episodes of The Traitors drop each Thursday on Peacock.

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