{"id":2233397,"date":"2026-01-13T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2233397"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:48:13","slug":"exclusive-the-traitors-season-4s-rob-cesternino-on-frustration-with-donna-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/exclusive-the-traitors-season-4s-rob-cesternino-on-frustration-with-donna-kelce\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | &#8216;The Traitors&#8217; Season 4&#8217;s Rob Cesternino on frustration with Donna Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2F118837008.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rob Cesternino didn\u2019t know he and Donna Kelce had \u201cBad Blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/entertainment\/survivor-49-winner-savannah-louie-reacts-to-mean-girl-accusations\/\">\u201cSurvivor\u201d <\/a>alum, 47, was the second person murdered on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/10\/inside-the-us-version-of-hit-the-traitors-you-cant-trust-anyone\/\">\u201cThe Traitors\u201d<\/a> Season 4 after Donna Kelce, who was the Secret Traitor, put him on the shortlist to be killed \u2014 much to his surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a good relationship with Donna,\u201d Cesternino told The Post in an exclusive interview. \u201cThat\u2019s why it was so frustrating to see. Donna, you put me on your short list of people to murder. Like, why? Donna, what happened? I thought we had a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rob Cesternino in his interview with The Post. <span class=\"credit\">Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Donna Kelce on \u201cThe Traitors\u201d Season 4. <span class=\"credit\">Euan Cherry\/PEACOCK<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI like Donna a lot. She was in my car to come to the castle on the first night, and I think she might have been a little bit over her head, bless her heart,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/robhasawebsite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the \u201cRob Has a Podcast\u201d host <\/a>continued. \u201cDonna is in her 70s, and I felt like that she was somebody who I wanted to help as much as I could in the challenges, because I thought that she was somebody who I thought was overlooked. I didn\u2019t think that people really wanted to connect with her too much, and maybe it\u2019s because they had suspicions about her<em> <\/em>being a Traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cesternino added, \u201cBut I was very friendly with Donna, and so it was a little bit of a surprise that she put me on her list.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>Lisa Rinna, Colton Underwood, Donna Kelce, Eric Nam, Mon\u00e9t X Change at the roundtable.  <span class=\"credit\">Euan Cherry\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Donna Kelce as the Secret Traitor. <span class=\"credit\">Euan Cherry\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After three straight seasons of \u201cgamers\u201d as Traitors, producers decided to switch things up and put \u201cReal Housewives\u201d alums, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/09\/17\/entertainment\/candiace-dillard-bassett-gushes-over-traitors-co-star-donna-kelce\/\">Candiace Dillard Bassett <\/a>and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/21\/entertainment\/lisa-rinna-threatened-to-kill-husband-harry-hamlin-during-postpartum\/\">Lisa Rinna<\/a>, and \u201cLove Island\u201d star Rob Rausch in the turret, dooiming Cesternino\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n<p>But Cesternino never wanted to be a Traitor in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that people might think that I would be a Traitor. And I really wanted to be a Faithful,\u201d he shared. \u201cAnd I told Alan [Cumming], \u2018Please make me a Faithful. I want to come in and be able to be myself and not have to carry the baggage of being a Traitor.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>Rob Cesternino on \u201cThe Traitors\u201d Season 4. <span class=\"credit\">Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd I thought that if I did so, could play a really fun game of taking it to the Traitors in a way where I thought I would be able to logic out who the Traitors might be,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I thought that that would be a really, really fun way to come into the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cesternino also revealed who he thought the Traitors were at the time of his murder.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/29\/dorinda-medley-buys-nyc-condo-as-she-teases-rhony-return\/\">\u201cDorinda [Medley] <\/a>was somebody who I thought was very likely to have been a Traitor, because I thought it made so much sense for her to get brought back,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd the thing that really sold it for me was when she got the casket in her grave and she was in my boat, I was like, \u2018Oh, my God, Dorinda, I can\u2019t believe they did this to you!\u2019 And she was like, \u2018Ah, c\u2019est la vie.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Dorinda, they\u2019re going to try to murder you again!\u2019 She\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, whatever happens, happens.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018What?\u2019 Dorinda is zen now? Since when?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Stephen Colletti, Mon\u00e9t X Change, Maura Higgins, Yamil \u201cYam Yam\u201d Arocho, Ron Funches, Dorinda Medley, Rob Cesternino, Tiffany Mitchell, Eric Nam, Donna Kelce, Caroline Stanbury on \u201cThe Traitors\u201d Season 4. <span class=\"credit\">Euan Cherry\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd then I also thought that Yam Yam [Arocho] was a Traitor,\u201d he added of the \u201cSurvivor 44\u201d winner. \u201cBecause I thought that they would have made a gamer one of the Traitors. I didn\u2019t think it was Tiffany [Mitchell], and obviously it wasn\u2019t <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/entertainment\/big-brother-controversies\/\">Ian [Terry],<\/a> and I didn\u2019t really feel like it was Natalie [Anderson] And so by process of elimination, I thought it was Yam Yam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New episodes of \u201cThe Traitors\u201d drop Thursdays on Peacock.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Cesternino didn\u2019t know he and Donna Kelce had \u201cBad Blood.\u201d The \u201cSurvivor\u201d alum, 47, was the second person murdered on \u201cThe Traitors\u201d Season 4 after Donna Kelce, who was the Secret Traitor, put him on the shortlist to be killed \u2014 much to his surprise. \u201cI had a good relationship with Donna,\u201d Cesternino told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2233398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[328305,21741,25404,28097,24758,24122,22205,206198,21913],"class_list":["post-2233397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donna-kelce","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-reality-show","tag-reality-stars","tag-reality-tv","tag-television","tag-the-traitors","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Exclusive-The-Traitors-Season-4s-Rob-Cesternino-on-frustration.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233399,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233397\/revisions\/2233399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}