Forget the Paudfather – say hello to the Coddfather. BBC’s Celebrity Traitors has witnessed an explosive performance by Co Wexford actor Ruth Codd. Not since Paudie “Paudfather” Moloney on The Traitors Ireland – okay, that was just a few weeks ago – has a contestant captured the imagination, and all thanks to her steel-trap mind that allowed her to sniff out the doubletalk by traitor Jonathan Ross, the veteran broadcaster and talk show host.
“I was ready and determined to always voice my opinion. I knew it was probably going to get me murdered,” says The Fall of the House of Usher star in an interview published after Ross and his fellow Traitors murdered her – a hit job that followed Ross correctly discerning that Codd had him rumbled as a figurative snake in the grass.
Codd, who grew up on a farm near Ferrycarrig, is well aware that she is a relative newcomer to showbusiness – she was a make-up artist and barber before losing her job during the Covid pan
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