&x27;The Traitors&x27;: Mark Ballas Reveals Plan to Undermine Rob Rausch&x27;s Dagger Nicole WeaverMon, February 23, 2026 at 2:04 AM UTC 0 (Euan Cherry/PEACOCK) Spoiler warning for The TraitorsSeason 4 Episode 10! Rob Rausch has dominated season 4 of The Traitors as an original traitor. He successfully outlasted his fellow traitors, earned a dagger from a mission, and recruited a new traitor. Rob's dagger allows him to vote twice at banishment. Mark Ballas revealed after episode 10 aired that the faithfuls had a plan that would've made the dagger irrelevant.
'The Traitors': Mark Ballas Reveals Plan to Undermine Rob Rausch's Dagger
Nicole WeaverMon, February 23, 2026 at 2:04 AM UTC
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(Euan Cherry/PEACOCK)
Spoiler warning for The TraitorsSeason 4 Episode 10!
Rob Rausch has dominated season 4 of The Traitors as an original traitor. He successfully outlasted his fellow traitors, earned a dagger from a mission, and recruited a new traitor. Rob's dagger allows him to vote twice at banishment. Mark Ballas revealed after episode 10 aired that the faithfuls had a plan that would've made the dagger irrelevant.
Mark Ballas Reveals Plan to Tie Votes Between Natalie Anderson and Rob Rausch
The Dancing With the Stars dancer posted a video of himself walking down a street on Instagram on February 22. "Currently walking down the street thinking about how we had the numbers if we had followed through on 'The Plan,'" read the text over the video. "Tara, Nat, Johnny, Me vote Rob = 4[.] Rob 'has 2 votes[.]' Maura & Eric vote Nat = 4. Makes it a tie. We all vote again only for Rob or Nat but the dagger has been flushed so now it's 4 votes Rob 3 votes Nat...DAMN."
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Mark, 39, captioned the video with, "PSA this is a joke & meant to be funny. Be nice to each other." The episode showed Tara Lipinski and Natalie Anderson suspecting Rob of being a traitor. However, Johnny Weir and Maura Higgins weren't on board with voting Rob. There was a suspicion that Natalie, a winner of Survivor, was tricking them. She was banished and revealed to be a faithful.
Rob recruited Eric Nam as a traitor, and he avoided suspicion this episode. Mark's video might be a sign that the faithfuls could be onto Rob at the finale. Tara, 43, backed out of the plan to target Rob at the roundtable when it seemed like Johnny, 41, wasn't going to vote with them.
"I truthfully don't want to play this game anymore," she said at the roundtable. "I feel like a fool. I have made mistakes. But seriously I am OK with being murdered tonight."
The traitors get to murder one more faithful. The finale will be released on Peacock on February 26.
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Published: February 23, 2026 at 01:09AM on Source: PRIME TIME
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