Dorinda Medleyit’s time Traitors it may have been short, but it left a lasting impression.
“If you’re going to get ‘killed’ early on, I did a good job of it, because I really enjoyed the rage, I have to say,” Medley said during an appearance on Monday, January 20, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Medley, 60, was eliminated in only the second episode Traitors season 3which started on January 9, much to the presenter’s surprise Jimmy Fallon and her fans.
“I went to Rise the other day, which is a gay bar on Ninth Avenue (in Manhattan), and the amount of tributes I got because I was (‘killed’) … they really thought I died!” the The Real Housewives of New York joked the alum. “People said, ‘Oh, my God!’ like I was Jesus Christ resurrected. It was wonderful. I said, ‘I didn’t really die in Scotland.'”
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Although Medley didn’t last long this season, she still had to work really hard to keep fans from knowing her fate for six months, noting that Traitors it was recorded last June.
“You’re really into thinking. You are so afraid to say a word,” she said. “And then for six months until it aired, people were doing this to me: ‘I can’t wait to see you on Traitors! I’m sure you’ll be great!’ … It was a relief when my ‘kill’ finally happened.”
Medley shared it for preparation Traitorsshe read The art of war — not once, but twice.
“I was preparing like I was really going to war,” Medley said. “I read The art of war twice… twice. And took notes. Not Cliff Notes. I actually read it. I studied philosophers like Nietzsche. When I went into my room, I had duct tape and every day I put up all these posters with all my strategies.”
Medley also complained that her early exit meant she she could not show all the clothes she planned to wear at the fashion show. “I had the best outfit,” she said, adding that after the elimination, she “slid off” to New York City with 15 suitcases.
Medley gushed beforehand Glamour about the look she planned to wear Traitors in an interview published on January 13.
“I had the best outfit ever,” she said. “I threw out all my old Vivienne Westwood. I had all my Prada tartans, I had a lot of Libertina. Endless amounts of Burberry. I couldn’t get any of it out. And the shoe situation was out of control.”
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