Phaedra Parks is not that impressed with Alan Cumming’s new Traitors.
“It’s the third episode and [the faithfuls] figured out two Traitors already, so I’m not sure if they are overplaying their hand because they’re coming in hot quite a bit,” Parks, 51, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, January 15, when partnering with Silk. “To be a great Traitor, you really need to just blend in and make people like you personally. [Have them] really enjoy spending time with you versus being overly dramatic because I think that makes people sort of wonder, ‘Why are you so dramatic?’”
During season 2 of The Traitors, Parks teamed up with fellow Traitors Dan Gheesling and Parvati Shallow to “murder” the faithful cast members in a mafia-style game.
Cumming, who continues to host the show, originally chose RuPaul’s Drag Race star Bob the Drag Queen, Survivor’s Carolyn Wiger and Big Brother’s Danielle Reyes as Traitors for season 3.
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A cast member who has grabbed the attention of Parks this season is one of her fellow Bravolebrities.
“The person that will least likely be detected is the young lady, Ciara [Miller] from Summer House,” Parks explained. “She’s coming in right under the radar. She’s not sweating like Tom Sandoval. I thought Tom was one to watch, but he’s definitely a little strange. I love Tom, but I mean, he seems to sweat quite a bit, and I think that makes you quite suspicious.”
To this day, Parks has no regrets about how she played her game. She had a “wonderful time” playing and continues to believe that nobody should underestimate the Bravo stars competing.
“I think Housewives are always underestimated because people just consider us glamorous and drinking champagne and hanging out,” she said. “But being a Housewife definitely calls for a definite skill set of fighting a battle that you might not win, but it’s got to be one with strategy.”
Away from any castles, Parks — who shares sons Ayden, 14, and Dylan, 11, with ex-husband Apollo Nida — is back home in Atlanta where she is preparing to star in the new season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Before then, she’s teaming up with America’s No. 1 plant-based beverage brand, Silk, to host the first-ever Silk & cereal pop-up in New York City to prove that Silk Vanilla Almond milk makes the best cereal companion.
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“As a mom to two young men — now a teenager and a preteen — cereal is a huge part of our meals,” Parks said. “Breakfast fuels for the day, but also I love cereal sometimes as an evening snack. It’s great because it’s got 50 percent more calcium than dairy milk, so it’s more nutritious and delicious. Who can beat that?”
The Traitors is streaming now on Peacock. A premiere date for season 16 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta has yet to be announced.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
