Britney Haynes came into Season 3 of The Traitors with a reality-competition résumé built almost entirely on outlasting people who underestimated her, and her run there became one of the more specific, personal storylines of the entire season.
Her Big Brother history didn’t just precede her into the castle. It became directly relevant to one of the season’s biggest votes.
Big Brother’s America’s Favorite Houseguest
Haynes won America’s Favorite Houseguest honors during Big Brother Season 12 and returned as a coach for Season 14, cementing a reputation among that show’s fanbase as one of its sharper strategic minds, the kind of background that made her an obvious pull for a Traitors season stacked with competition-show royalty rather than pure celebrity names.
An Old Big Brother Rivalry Resurfaces
Haynes discovered early on that fellow castmate Danielle Reyes, her former castmate from Big Brother: Reindeer Games, whom she’d previously had a hand in eliminating, was also playing this season. Rather than letting old tension fester, Haynes worked quickly to mend fences with Reyes, and the two built what became a season-long alliance once Haynes was recruited into the game as a Traitor partway through.
Betraying Her Own Alliance
That alliance didn’t survive the endgame. In a twist that multiple outlets specifically framed as an echo of their earlier Big Brother history, Haynes ultimately voted to banish Reyes, turning on her own Traitor teammate in a move that mirrored the exact dynamic that had originally connected the two women years earlier. It’s a rare case of a player’s entire prior reality-TV history becoming directly, explicitly relevant to a specific vote inside a completely different show.
Runner-Up Finish
That move helped carry Haynes all the way to the finale as one of the last remaining Traitors, where she was ultimately identified and banished by the surviving Faithfuls, including Dylan Efron, Dolores Catania, Gabby Windey, and Lord Ivar Mountbatten, in the vote that ended the season. That banishment made Haynes the season’s runner-up, the highest finish of anyone playing as a Traitor. She’s been candid in exit interviews about her mindset in the game, flatly telling interviewers she would not have split the prize money with the Faithfuls had their positions been reversed.