Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | January 27, 2026
Spoilers here, but Ron Funches was "banished" from Traitors in the most recent episode. It's a shame, too, because Ron Funches was the best reason to watch Traitors. Not because he was the most dramatic or outlandish person in the cast, but because he was the most sane person in the cast. And for that, he was eaten alive by much of the rest of the cast, some of whom inexplicably decided early on that Funches was a "traitor" and not as a player in a game, but as a real-life traitor.
Some of these people completely lost sight of the fact that they were playing a game and essentially alienated Funches until his isolation in the game no longer served their purpose and then voted him out. At that point, Funches had already resigned to his fate and asked them to vote him out so that he could finally prove that he was a faithful, but not before he went around the table and said some nice things about some of the cast members. Honestly, by that point, I don't think anyone actually still thought he was a Traitor, but he was an easy target for some of the alliances, and I think maybe some other folks by that point just wanted to put the poor guy out of his misery. Ron Funches clearly did not enjoy himself in the castle and said as much at a recent stand-up appearance.
He had a particularly difficult relationship with one player, Dorinda Medley, a Real Housewive who had what seemed like an irrational dislike of Funches for reasons that weren't quite evident from the edit. On Mina Kimes' podcast, however, Funches alluded to what viewers may have missed.
While trying to be respectful of the edit, Funches nevertheless said that there was more to it than we saw. "She started to come at me for things that were non-gameplay related," he said. "Things that weren't even on camera. Things that happened during our in-between times, between missions or eating lunch or whatever."
"And she would bring those up in the roundtable," he continued. "And she would bring up very personal things about me, or try to frame me as as a person as someone who was untrustworthy. Not as a Traitor, but as a human. And [the producers] kept trying to tell her, 'Please stop doing this because we cannot air it.' ... Her issues with me were with me as a human. I think she's shown prior issues with people who look similar to me. I don't want to define who she is or what she is. All I know is that I clocked her immediately. I've been through enough in my life ... I know who I see when I see them, so if other people can't see it, that's not my responsibility."
He also added, with respect to the Housewives as a whole: "I come from a world where you have to work really hard and sometimes you have to be really kind and talented ... so I had never met any of those people [Housewives] before."
He finished with one last dig, saying that he treated people on the show the same regardless of gameplay. "My views about those people are the same inside and outside the game, whether they were traitors or not, whether they even voted me out or not. I don't care. I just care about how you treated me as a human being, so I will always love Rob (Rausch, from Love Island), but I will never have respect for that woman (Dorinda Medley)."
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