Tully Smyth has been a fixture on Australian reality TV for over a decade ever since her breakout moment on Big Brother in 2013.
And now, she’s added Faithful on The Traitors Australia to her resume. So far, the writer and content creator has maintained a cool exterior on the show without raising any suspicion that she could be a Traitor.
However, away from the manor, Tully is claiming that her experience on the show wasn’t always a good one. In a post captioned “I said what I said,” Tully shared a clip of a challenge on The Traitors Australia.
In the challenge from episode 3, the team carried a heavy raft up a mountain, but many of the louder men’s voices dominated the scene. In the challenge, one contestant at a time would stop carrying the raft and be tied to a pole. At the first pole, Australian Survivor’s Henry Nicholson decided that it should be the “ladies first” who would leave the challenge and therefore lose their chance at getting a Shield.
“This mission is targeting people with a lot of strength,” Housewives star Krissy Marsh said in a confessional. “The Survivors and the men are more than likely going to get a Shield.”
In the episode, Tully could be heard saying that the entire group should agree on who gets the Shield, rather than the men — however, her (rather valid) concerns were ignored. After the episode, Tully wrote that this moment was her “top 5 horror movies,” before she listed “sexism” and “trying to get a word in” as examples.
The post received plenty of comments agreeing with Tully. Recent eliminee, Cosima De Vito, wrote on the video: “Amen to all 5. What a messed-up day.”
Tully’s ex-partner, Tahlia Farrant, agreed that “this whole challenge was such a hard watch.”
In the same post, Tully took aim at the group’s decision to not allow MAFS star, Cam Merchant, to return to the game, bringing with him a $10k bonus for the prize fund. Tully described Henry and co’s choice to refuse him and the money as “abandoning $10k for no reason.”
Cam commented on the post “If I only knew what was really going on,” which Tully soundtracked to Katy Perry’s ‘The One That Got Away’ — a pointed reference to Cam being snubbed by his co-stars.
The Traitors Australia viewers agree with Tully’s ‘sexism’ claims
Further into Tully’s comments, plenty of Traitors viewers agreed with her stance. “Every Traitors show, the first ‘endurance’ challenge, the sexism from the men rears its head towards the women,” read one comment.
Other viewers vented that “this challenge made me so mad” and the way the men treated the women had “set us back 100 years!”
This isn’t the first time the franchise has faced sexism allegations. In a challenge on The Traitors US season three, contestants had to sacrifice players in order to increase the prize pot, so several of the Housewives initially volunteered themselves. The male contestants quickly embraced the idea that women should be sacrificed, prompting online discussion accusing the men of treating women as more expendable in Traitors.
On the latest US season, Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause publicly accused Wes Bergmann of displaying sexist behaviour during the game, which Wes disputed.
Summer House’s Ciara Miller later spoke about the gender biases she felt women encountered on Traitors. “I kind of think that people are always going to underestimate the girls… [watching] the inherent misogyny that females have to face… ” Ciara told Decider.
“The women really had to fight for their voices to be heard.”
The Traitors Australia 2026 airs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30pm on Network 10 and 10Play.
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