What’s With The Salmon On ‘Traitors’? Maura Higgins Explains

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Season 4 of The Traitors has one true main character, and it’s the salmon. In every episode of the Peacock reality show’s latest season, audiences can expect conversations about betrayal, loyalty, and strangely, smoked fish. Each breakfast scene — where the Faithfuls and the viewers learn who the Traitors murdered the night before — has been overshadowed by questions about salmon, and Maura Higgins has thoughts on why.

“I can't believe they're airing all this about the salmon,” she tells Elite Daily. So far in Season 4, Higgins herself has been one of the breakfast staple’s most vocal fans. (Along that same vein, she hasn’t shied away from showing her disappointment when she misses the salmon window.) “They’re even showing me say, ‘No salmon — ‘course there's not.’ And I'm fuming about it.”

Looking back, Higgins knows why the smoked salmon became ...