Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio is reveling in Dan Gheesling’s downfall on season 2 of Peacock’s The Traitors.
“Dan coming out of retirement just to be sent right back in,” Bananas, 41, joked by means of X on Thursday, February 1, after Dan, 40, was once banished by way of the trustworthy on that night time’s episode.
Bananas has regularly criticized Dan by means of social media ever because the Large Brother alum acted because the catalyst in the back of Bananas’ homicide in episode 2. Whilst Bananas was once the 1st contestant despatched house this season, Dan become the 1st traitor to be known on Thursday.
Largely due to Bachelor Country’s Peter Weber, the trustworthy controlled to catch Dan in his tracks and banish him from the contest. The episode ended with Dan’s fellow traitors, Phaedra Parks and Parvati Shallow, making an attempt to recruit Peter, 32, as their latest companion.
Bananas known as out Dan’s try to save himself by way of accusing different contestants of being traitors in every other Thursday tweet, writing, “I take solace in the fact that I never had a chance to play 😆 Turns out I wasn’t Dan’s biggest threat, his insecurities were.” He added: “Dude got outplayed by a Bachelor, [Carsten ‘Bergie’ Bergersen], then ate up by a housewife. That wasn’t a banishment it was a MURDER 💀 #TheTraitorsUS.”
Bananas reputedly hinted that he knew Dan’s destiny following his personal removal final month. According to a January 12 tweet that learn, “I’m shooketh & EXTREMELY disappointed that #TheTraitors killed @johnnybananas FIRST?!? Bad choice for us viewers but @DanGheesling is a MASTER at these kind of games,” Bananas wrote, “We’ll see ðŸ¤.”
Final month, the Space of Villains celebrity solely instructed Us Weekly that he didn’t first of all suspect Dan was once the traitor in the back of his early go out. “Part of me was thinking it could have been Marcus [Jordan] and Larsa [Pippen],” he printed in a joint interview with the couple. “Because I proposed that idea to you guys in the car, I was like, ‘What if it’s one of you and then you murdered the other one?’ So I was thinking, ‘Oh, maybe I was onto something and they killed me.’”
The Problem alum famous that he “was questioning everyone,” together with host Alan Cumming. “I was like, Alan probably f–king murdered me for stealing his gold bar.’ So I didn’t know at the time,” he joked. “They murdered me right away and they were asking me in my exit interviews, ‘Do you have any idea who did this?’ And I’m like, ‘I have not a clue.'”
Bananas in the end doesn’t assume Dan and the traitors despatched him house as a result of they idea he was once a risk however reasonably as a result of he was once “a competition to the camera time and the entertainment value.” He defined: “Because they brought none of that to the screen, anyone that did, they wanted to get rid of.”
New episodes of The Traitors move on Peacock Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.