Victor Vollbrechthausen is a 26-year-old former Tufts University swimmer who works in financial technology, and one of 22 civilian contestants on NBC’s The Traitors: New Blood. He set school records as a freestyle swimmer at Tufts before moving into business development in fintech after graduating in 2022.
Vollbrechthausen’s cast materials list New York, New York, as his hometown for the show, though his high school and college athletic records place his upbringing in Westfield, New Jersey. He has described himself, in his own cast interview, as the group’s “biggest flirt” and says he plans to enter the game by building a small, trusted group of allies rather than arriving with a fixed strategy.
Vollbrechthausen entered the game as a Faithful. Shane Beatty pardoned him in Episode 8, overturning the banishment, and he remains in the game as a Faithful.
Quick Facts
| Full name | Victor Vollbrechthausen |
| Date of birth | Not publicly confirmed |
| Age | 26, per Traitors cast material |
| Birthplace | Not publicly confirmed |
| Hometown (per cast materials) | New York, New York |
| Raised in | Westfield, New Jersey |
| High school | The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, New Jersey |
| College | Tufts University, B.S. Computer Science, 2018 to 2022 |
| Sport | Swimming, freestyle events, Tufts men’s swimming and diving |
| Professional field | Financial technology and payments; senior sales engineer, Fits (formerly FitBank), São Paulo |
| Current residence | Not conclusively established |
| Traitors role | Contestant, The Traitors: New Blood; Faithful, pardoned in Episode 8, still in the game |
Early Life and Education
Public information about Vollbrechthausen’s childhood and family background is limited. His Tufts roster biography names his parents as Lucila and Alejandro and notes he has one sibling, Alejandro Ricardo. His athletic and cast records point to a New Jersey upbringing, with Westfield listed as his hometown in his Tufts roster information, while his official Traitors cast materials list New York, New York.
He attended The Pingry School, located in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, before enrolling at Tufts University in 2018, where he studied computer science, graduating in 2022. At Pingry he swam, played water polo and ran track, and was named the school’s Somerset County Student Athlete of the Year in 2018. Public sources do not document a specific reason he chose Tufts or computer science.
Tufts Swimming Career
Vollbrechthausen swam for Tufts University’s men’s swimming and diving program, primarily in freestyle events, from 2018 to 2022. At the 2022 NESCAC championship meet, he set a Tufts school record in the 200-yard freestyle, with a time of 1:39.03. He was also part of Tufts’ 800-yard freestyle relay team that set a school record in 2022 at 6:38.76, alongside teammate Eric Lundgren and two other swimmers, and swam on a 200-yard freestyle relay that NESCAC’s official championship coverage clocked at 1:21.13. That 200-yard freestyle record has since been broken; Ron Lyubman lowered it to 1:37.62 at the 2026 NESCAC Championships.
He was also named a 2021-22 NCAA Division III All-American, second team, as part of Tufts’ 200-yard freestyle relay, per the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America. That is a relay honour, not an individual one, and it sits alongside the pair of Tufts school records he set during his senior season.
Beyond swimming, his college activities reportedly included involvement with Team Impact and Green Dot, and membership in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. No reliable source indicates he continued competitive swimming after graduating in 2022.
Career After College
He started at Vector Marketing as a sales representative in the summer of 2018, then joined the Brazilian payments company FitBank as a product manager in New York in December 2022, working on moving its payment platform from Brazil into Central America. In January 2025 he moved to São Paulo as a senior sales engineer. FitBank has since rebranded as Fits, which is how the company appears on his LinkedIn profile. His cast materials bill him more generally as a business executive based in New York.
The employer question is settled: FitBank and Fits are the same company, before and after a rebrand. His current base is not conclusively established, with São Paulo on his LinkedIn profile against a New York billing in his cast materials and on his Instagram bio.
Personality and Public Profile
Vollbrechthausen’s self-declared cast superlative is “Biggest Flirt,” a label used consistently across his official cast materials. Pre-season coverage does not provide the full context for why he chose it, so it should be read as a self-described personality hook rather than a claim about his dating life or relationship history.
His clearest documented strategic statement comes from his own cast interview: “I think everybody’s kind of kidding themselves if you show up with a special strategy.” He has said his approach will depend on the people he meets, and that he wants to build a small group of four or five allies who get along and will vouch for him, rather than relying on a rigid plan or heavy deception.
Victor Vollbrechthausen on The Traitors: New Blood
Vollbrechthausen is one of 22 civilian contestants on The Traitors: New Blood, part of a season NBC and Peacock have said drew more than 80,000 applicants overall. Some cast coverage describes him as hoping to be selected as a Traitor, reportedly preferring the control that role offers over the risk of being secretly eliminated by other Traitors, though the specific quotes behind that framing, including a widely circulated line about “gaslighting” himself into expecting the role, have not been independently confirmed in the sources reviewed for this profile.
What is better documented is his stated approach to the social side of the game: build relationships quickly, avoid an overly complicated scheme, and lean on a small, trusted group rather than elaborate deception. Vollbrechthausen entered the game as a Faithful. For the full cast list, see The Traitors: New Blood Cast, and once the season airs, results will be tracked on The Traitors: New Blood Episodes.
How His Background Could Translate to The Traitors
Vollbrechthausen’s college swimming required both individual accountability and the ability to contribute to a team result, particularly as part of relay events, and his work in business development depends on building relationships and reading what different people want from a situation. Those are plausible transferable skills for a social game built on alliances and trust.
That said, none of this means he is automatically skilled at deception or lie detection. Competitive swimming and business development are not the same discipline as social manipulation, and this section should be read as editorial analysis rather than a claim Vollbrechthausen has made himself.
Personal Life
No reliable public source documents Vollbrechthausen’s relationship status, a partner, or children. His self-declared “biggest flirt” superlative is a cast-material personality label, not a confirmed statement about his dating life, and it should not be read as one.
Outside the show, he cycles and runs, completed a triathlon in Augusta, Maine, in August 2026, speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and has two dogs, Kiwi and Ken.
Where Victor Vollbrechthausen Stands Now
Vollbrechthausen’s path runs from a New Jersey childhood and a Pingry School education, through a Tufts swimming career that produced real, if more modest than some coverage suggests, school records, into a post-college career in financial technology and payments. The Traitors: New Blood is a new and very different stage for him, one built on social trust rather than lap times or sales targets, but the instincts he has described bringing into it, adaptability, quick relationship-building and a preference for a small trusted circle, track with how he has described navigating both the pool and the office. He posts triathlon content on Instagram as @victorvoll. After Episode 9, he remains in the game as a Faithful. The Traitors targeted Morgan Cook with the poisoned chalice, and he secretly holds the shield he found during the Episode 9 mission.
Victor’s Gameplay
Vollbrechthausen entered the game as a Faithful, and his aggressive pursuit of a shield in the opening mission made him an early Round Table target (Patriot Ledger). The heat intensified in episode 3, when Arisa Thomas held his hands and asked him point-blank whether he was a Traitor, a moment other players mapped onto a crypt clue about two players battling ‘in plain sight’ to become a Traitor’ (Entertainment Weekly; Reality Realm). He survived that Round Table with five votes, the second-highest total, as Arisa was banished and revealed as a Faithful. In episode 4 he landed on the murder shortlist during the Death Parade mission but survived the night. Shane Beatty pardoned him in Episode 8, overturning the banishment, and he remains in the game as a Faithful. In Episode 9, the Traitors targeted Morgan Cook with the poisoned chalice, and he found a shield in a chest of teddy bears during the haunted-cabin mission and kept it secret, not even telling Alan Cumming when asked. He clashed with Joe Vanella during the episode, telling him, “I’m the only one that’s been right,” and the episode ended on a cliffhanger as the players took their seats at the Round Table, with the showdown held over to Episode 10 on November 12. Read the Episode 9 recap for the full story.
| Episode | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 1, “A New Dawn Is Rising” | Won a shield | One of three shield winners (with Abby Lee, Madeline Kostopulos); aggressive pursuit drew early suspicion |
| 2, “I’m a Sweaty Boy” | Survived first Round Table | Voted for Kriste Lewis; Madeline banished; took votes over the shield issue |
| 3, “The Traitors Are Watching” | Became the suspicion flashpoint | Arisa’s handholding “truth test” plus the crypt clue about a traitor recruitment “in plain sight” put him under the microscope |
| 4, “The Death Parade” | Survived second Round Table and murder shortlist | Received five votes (second-highest) as Arisa was banished 13-5-1; was on the 10-person murder shortlist but survived; Logan Smith murdered instead |
| 5, “Wake of the Living Dead” | Survived; remained an active Faithful | Confirmed safe at the wake; voted for Michael Foote at the Round Table; noticed Joe Vanella clinging to his fruit during the poisoned-apple murder attempt and Tomica Adams offering apples around the kitchen in the immediate aftermath |
| 6 (aired Oct 15) | Survived; received 3 banishment votes | “FruitGate” theory gained traction: he correctly identified the murder method as the cursed apple and implicated Joe Vanella and Tomica Adams, but the room dismissed the theory and banished Michael Foote 8-3-3-1; Victor received 3 banishment votes (from Michael Foote, Jay Vinnedge, Tomica Adams) |
| 7 (aired Oct 22) | Ejected from mission; received most Round Table votes (5) | Shane Beatty’s black heart ejected him from the scarecrow mission, making him ineligible for the Pardon; he confronted Tomica Adams over her Katie/Kriste slip; his banishment was overturned by Shane Beatty’s Pardon in Episode 8 |
| 8, “A Bad Apple Spoils the Whole Bunch” | Pardoned; voted out first Traitor | Shane Beatty’s Pardon overturned his Episode 7 banishment; voted for Tomica in the 10-2 banishment; received 2 votes (Jay Vinnedge, Tomica Adams) |
| 9, “Playing Chess” | Survived; found a shield and kept it secret | The Traitors targeted Morgan Cook with the poisoned chalice; he found a shield in a chest of teddy bears during the haunted-cabin mission and did not tell anyone, including when Alan Cumming asked; clashed with Joe Vanella during the episode, and the Round Table ended on a cliffhanger with no vote |
Episode 5, ‘Wake of the Living Dead,’ aired Thursday, October 8 on NBC. Victor noticed Joe Vanella clinging to his fruit during the poisoned-apple murder attempt and later saw Tomica Adams offering apples around the kitchen. He was confirmed safe at the wake and voted for Michael Foote at the Round Table.
Episode 6 aired Thursday, October 15 on NBC. At the Round Table, Victor’s “FruitGate” theory gained real traction: he correctly identified that the murder method was the cursed apple and implicated Joe Vanella and Tomica Adams, but the room dismissed the theory and banished Michael Foote 8-3-3-1 instead. Victor also received 3 banishment votes in Episode 6, from Michael Foote, Jay Vinnedge and Tomica Adams, and he remained an active Faithful heading into Episode 7, which aired October 22.
Episode 7 aired Thursday, October 22 on NBC. In the scarecrow mission, Shane Beatty found a black heart and ejected Victor from the mission, which made him ineligible for the new Power of the Pardon. The Traitors chose not to murder Victor and murdered Mark Zgoda instead, judging that a Victor murder would draw too much attention to them.
At the Round Table, Victor pressed his FruitGate case again and confronted Tomica Adams. He said she had earlier named Katie Fites as her suspect to him, then claimed at the table that she had said Kriste Lewis. Victor said: “You said Katie. Why are you lying about that?” Tomica later told viewers she misspoke. Victor received the most votes, with 5, but he was not banished. Alan Cumming froze the exit because the secret Pardon holder may overturn the verdict, and his role reveal was also held. His fate will be resolved in Episode 8 on October 29.
In Episode 8, Shane Beatty revealed himself as the Power of the Pardon holder and pardoned Victor, overturning his Episode 7 banishment, despite having voted for Victor himself and knocked him out of the mission with a black heart. Shane said, as quoted by the AV Club: ‘As a New Yorker… I can tell when someone is lying in my face, and he convinced me.’ Victor then led the case against Tomica Adams at the second Round Table, pressing Joe Vanella to name another suspect, and voted for Tomica in the 10-2 banishment that revealed her as a Traitor, the first Traitor banished all season. He received only two votes at the Episode 8 table, from Jay Vinnedge and Tomica Adams. He remains in the game as a Faithful, now allied with Shane.
Morgan Cook’s exit interviews, published on November 6, showed how central Victor had become to the endgame. She told Entertainment Weekly she had called his FruitGate theory crazy and expected him to hold it over her ‘for the rest of my life,’ and told Parade that keeping Victor was not good for Joe and getting rid of him was not good, adding that if she were Joe she would ‘just want to kill him and try to claim I was framed [rather] than have to deal with him coming at me as hard as he came at Tomica.’
Asked by Decider who the Traitors should recruit if Joe is banished, Cook said the obvious answer was Victor, but it would be a risk bringing him in: ‘Could you trust him not to turn on you?’ Tomica Adams, the Traitor Victor exposed, told Parade on October 30 that she regretted not murdering him: ‘I should have killed Victor about three times,’ adding that the Pardon was ‘Affirmative. 100%, easily’ the reason she was eliminated, and calling him ‘the irritating presence of Victor’ who followed her from room to room on her last day.
FAQs
Who is Victor Vollbrechthausen?
Victor Vollbrechthausen is a 26-year-old former Tufts University swimmer who works in financial technology and is a contestant on The Traitors: New Blood.
How old is Victor Vollbrechthausen?
26, per his official Traitors cast material. His exact birth date has not been publicly confirmed.
Where is Victor Vollbrechthausen from?
His Traitors cast materials list New York, New York, as his hometown. His high school and college athletic records point to a Westfield, New Jersey, upbringing.
Where does Victor Vollbrechthausen live?
Not conclusively established. Sources disagree on his current base; see the Career After College section for detail.
Where did Victor Vollbrechthausen go to college?
Tufts University, graduating in 2022 with a degree in computer science.
Did Victor Vollbrechthausen swim at Tufts?
Yes. He swam freestyle events for Tufts and set school records in the 200-yard freestyle and the 800-yard freestyle relay during his senior season.
What did Victor Vollbrechthausen study?
Computer science, according to his professional profile.
What does Victor Vollbrechthausen do for work?
He is a senior sales engineer at Fits, the Brazilian payments company formerly known as FitBank, based in São Paulo. He joined the company as a product manager in New York in December 2022.
Is Victor Vollbrechthausen married?
Not publicly known. No reliable source documents his relationship status.
Who is Victor Vollbrechthausen on The Traitors?
One of the season’s 22 civilian contestants. His self-declared cast superlative is “Biggest Flirt.”
Does Victor Vollbrechthausen want to be a Traitor?
Some cast coverage describes that as his preference, though the specific reasoning and quotes behind it are not independently confirmed. His actual role was revealed in the premiere: he is a Faithful.
Is Victor Vollbrechthausen still on The Traitors?
Yes. He remains a Faithful after Episode 9, when the Traitors targeted Morgan Cook with the poisoned chalice. He secretly holds the shield he found during the Episode 9 mission.
