Why Arie Luyendyk Jr. Still Refuses to Talk to Cirie Fields After Her 'Traitors' Win

Arie Luyendyk Jr.

Season 2 of The Traitors may be airing on Peacock now, but there's apparently still plenty of beef from Season 1 that hasn't been resolved. Clearly all those banishments and murders are not easily forgotten.

On Thursday morning, in the lead-up to Episode 4 of The Traitors Season 2, Season 1 finalist and former Bachelor, Arie Luyendyk Jr. took to Instagram for a Traitors-related Q&A. One follower asked, "Have you & cerrie [sic] spoken since the end of your season?" referencing Arie's falling out with Survivor alum Cirie Fields after Season 1.

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In his reply Arie wrote (typos his!), "that's a no. she won it in a dirty way in my opinion but she's [sic] has to live with that and that's all ill really say. if i would have won in the end then I would have left the game with a clear conscience. a lot was left on the cutting room floor during endgame."

For those of you with short memories, both Cirie and Arie were Traitors during the first season, with Cirie being named a Traitor in the premiere and Arie being recruited later on. Upon reaching the finale, the four remaining players, Arie and Cirie, along with two Faithfuls Quentin Jiles and Andie Vanacore, were given the option to either end the game or banish another player. Per the rules, if there were any Traitors left in the mix, they would take home the prize pot and leave the remaining Faithfuls with nothing.

With four players left, Arie, Andie and Quentin voted to end the game (which would have resulted in Arie and Cirie splitting the prize money), while Cirie voted to banish once more. At this point, Arie, who is well off, opted to confess to being a Traitor and quit the game rather than potentially vote out one of the other three contestants, who he viewed as needing the money more (despite having basically voted to keep the money for himself moments before).

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With Arie gone, the three remaining players, Cirie, Andie and Quentin all voted to end the game rather than banish again. Because Cirie was a Traitor, she won the entire prize pot, leaving Andie and Quentin with nothing. At the reunion, filmed after the show aired, Arie, Andie and Quentin remained salty about Cirie duping them, and apparently, a year later, still are.

In his Instagram post, Arie tagged all three of his fellow finalists, with Quentin reposting the story with the caption, "My guy continues to speak the truth about what yall did not see! And I thank you."

For some reason, both Arie and Quentin feel that Cirie betrayed them in a "dirty" way despite the name of the game being The Traitors and Cirie executing the premise of the game perfectly. Are Arie and Quentin just sore losers or is there something else that went down in Scotland that the audience didn't get to see? That remains to be seen.

At the time of this writing, neither Andie nor Cirie have weighed in on Arie's story.

Meanwhile, Season 2 is just beginning to turn up the heat, so it's only a matter of time before we learn who on that cast left the Traitors castle with bad blood.

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