Emily Bashforth
Published January 11, 2026 7:05pm
Updated January 11, 2026 7:05pm
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The Traitors star Amanda has opened up about a nasty accident (Picture: BBC/Instagram)
The Traitors contestant Amanda Collier has revealed she was involved in a bike crash that caused the ‘most pain of [her] life’.
Faithful Amanda, who was banished from the Scottish Highlands castle this week after being wrongfully suspected of traitorous behaviour, crashed into a wall at speed while cycling.
The terrifying incident occurred in 2022 when the former Metropolitan Police detective was on holiday with her wife, Caroline, in France.
Amanda, from Brighton, said the couple were ‘having a lovely time on a camper van holiday in the Loire Valley countryside’ when they decided on a bike ride for their final day.
‘Out of the blue, Caroline accidentally clipped my wheel,’ the 57-year-old recalled to The Sun on Sunday.
‘The freak accident sent me headfirst into this flint wall. Even though I was wearing a helmet, I realised I had to turn my body, or I would break my neck.
The keen cyclist was involved in a crash in 2022 (Picture: Instagram)
‘It all happened in a split second, but my shoulder smashed into the hard rock, and I couldn’t breathe, and I had badly winded myself.’
She described the whole thing as ‘just awful’.
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Unable to move and with her collarbone protruding at an awkward angle, Amanda was saved by the goodwill of a French jogger, who directed an ambulance to reach the pair, since they were unfamiliar with their surroundings.
Rushed to a local hospital, Amanda was ‘pumped full of morphine’ and X-rayed, which showed she needed an operation.
Deciding it best to have surgery for her shattered collarbone back in the UK, she and Caroline still had a 15-hour journey home to tackle, which caused ‘torture’ with every bump in the road.
‘At one point, I asked my wife to pull over at the side of the road and leave me, as I thought I couldn’t go on,’ she shared.
She and her wife, Caroline, were holidaying in France when Amanda shattered her collarbone (Picture: Instagram)
‘But she was so strong and knew we couldn’t stop and ploughed on.’
Amanda, who retired from policing in 2020, later had a metal sheet inserted into her bones, which led to a two-month recovery period, during which she ‘couldn’t stop crying’.
‘I felt very helpless, which was frustrating, as I am so independent normally; it was just horrendous, as I felt so vulnerable.’
Thankfully, while she might get ‘the odd twinge from time to time,’ Amanda hasn’t suffered any major lasting damage from the accident.
It also taught her a valuable lesson.
‘I’ll never take my physical health for granted again,’ she declared.
The former Met detective was rushed to hospital in an ambulance, but waited to return home for her surgery (Picture: Instagram)
So far, Amanda has been a huge player in The Traitors’ fourth season, having managed to ruffle feathers without even being there.
Shortly before her exit, having masqueraded as a charity worker, Amanda confessed to Traitor and close friend Rachel that she was, in fact, an ex-detective determined to expose Traitors in the game by piecing the evidence together.
Rachel was stunned by her admission but kept quiet to the other players, as did Amanda, even when she had to fight for her place in a nail-biting tie-breaker of a roundtable, having received the same number of votes as Reece.
Ultimately, an emotional Reece was saved (only to be murdered in what the Traitors called a ‘mercy killing’ the next night), and Amanda revealed to the group that she was never a Traitor to begin with.
But her banishment was really only the catalyst for some of the programme’s most shocking drama ever, as Secret Traitor Fiona decided to stir the pot, accusing Rachel of lying about Amanda confiding in her.
The scenes were explosive, to say the least, leaving third Traitor Stephen as somewhat of a piggy in the middle between the two women, who were absolutely out for blood in both the Traitors’ Turret and at the subsequent roundtable.
Amanda was banished from The Traitors after a nail-biting roundtable (Picture: BBC)
She was stunned to learn Rachel was a Traitor, having confided in her with her big secret (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry/PA Wire)
Alas, Fiona’s master plan backfired, and she was voted out, leaving original Traitors Rachel and Stephen to fight another day.
Following her departure, Amanda was informed of the Traitors’ identities, visibly shaken to learn that pal Rachel (who sobbed as she was banished) had been working against her the whole time.
Speaking on Uncloaked with Ed Gamble, Amanda – who famously suspected Jade of being a Traitor, voting for her each time – said she then felt ‘really stupid’ for trusting Rachel with her big secret.
‘She was my best friend in the castle. But she’s just brilliant.
‘Every day I was thinking, “Why have I not been murdered? I would murder me.”
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‘Watching it, it just looks ridiculous,’ she added. ‘I deserved to be banished. I had all this information in my head, and I just wanted to help. But I got called an influencer.’
The last episode ended in true Traitors style – with a cliffhanger, of course – and viewers will have to return next week to find out if Rachel and Stephen can survive the suspicions of crime author Harriet and hairstylist Jessie.
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