From the moment Linda risked whiplash by turning her head so quickly when Claudia said the word “traitors”, she became the darling of series three.
The retired opera singer channelled her GCSE drama skills to hide her true traitor identity – and even earned herself a central London billboard, external.
“Oh my god, who the hell is not going to come back?” she asked unconvincingly one breakfast as they waited to see who had been murdered.
Linda’s fiery side began to emerge during the narrowboat challenge, in which the contestants jabbed at each other for their poor rowing skills.
At the roundtable that followed, Linda told Anna witheringly: “You don’t need to be a sailor to know how to tie a rope, sorry.”
But all good things must come to an end, and, by episode seven, the rest of the pack had caught up with faithful Jake, who suspected Linda “from day one”.
