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The American version of the reality game show \u201cThe Traitors,\u201d after the release of its first season on Peacock last year, won an Emmy Award<\/a> for its casting.<\/p>\n The debut season of the whodunit-style competition<\/a>, in which contestants are eliminated by banishment or by being \u201cmurdered,\u201d featured a cast of reality stars and less famous people like nurses and sales executives. For its second season, which ended in March, the cast was reconfigured to include mostly people from reality shows like \u201cSurvivor<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBig Brother<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Bachelor<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDancing With the Stars<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Real Housewives<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBelow Deck<\/a>,\u201d \u201cShahs of Sunset<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBling Empire,\u201d \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n In the days after Season 2 premiered in January, \u201cThe Traitors\u201d became the most viewed unscripted series in the country on streaming platforms, according to Nielsen statistics<\/a>. A third season was greenlit<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n As interest in \u201cThe Traitors\u201d has intensified, former reality stars \u2014 along with other people with some degree of celebrity \u2014 have been clamoring for a chance to appear on the show set at a Scottish castle, hosted by Alan Cumming<\/a> and offering a prize of up to $250,000. (The American version, like its British, Canadian, Greek and Australian counterparts, is a spinoff of a show originally produced in the Netherlands.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI would assume that a lot of people who have managers and agents are sending out the emails to \u2018Traitors\u2019 casting and production trying to get their foot in the door,\u201d said Jemmye Carroll, 35, who, after appearing on \u201cThe Real World: New Orleans\u201d in 2010, went on to join the casts of several seasons of \u201cThe Challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m using my one resource, which is Trishelle,\u201d she continued, referring to Trishelle Cannatella, a winner of \u201cThe Traitors\u201d Season 2 and another cast member of \u201cThe Real World\u201d and \u201cThe Challenge\u201d franchises. Both women live in New Orleans and when they have run into each other around town, Ms. Carroll said, she has encouraged Ms. Cannatella to put in a good word for her with the production staff of \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI think she\u2019s the best resource because she\u2019s the reigning queen of the castle,\u201d Ms. Carroll said.<\/p>\n Rob Cesternino, who was on two seasons of \u201cSurvivor\u201d (\u201cThe Amazon\u201d in 2003 and \u201cAll-Stars\u201d in 2004), said the buzz surrounding \u201cThe Traitors\u201d has made the possibility of appearing on it alluring to many reality stars \u2014 himself included \u2014 whom he described as \u201cmoths to a flame.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would definitely go on \u2018The Traitors\u2019 if I was asked,\u201d said Mr. Cesternino, who lives outside Raleigh, N.C., and hosts a podcast that focuses on reality television, called \u201cRob Has a Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe first rule of being a reality TV star is keep doing more reality TV shows,\u201d Mr. Cesternino, 45, said. \u201c\u2018Traitors\u2019 opens up a whole avenue to reality stars,\u201d he continued, describing the show as bringing together \u201cthe multiverse of reality TV.\u201d Stars from that genre, he said, see it as a way to extend or revive their careers.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a really big selling point,\u201d Mr. Cesternino said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Danny Roberts<\/a>, 46, who appeared on \u201cThe Real World: New Orleans\u201d in 2000 and on its Paramount+ spinoff, \u201cThe Real World Homecoming: New Orleans,\u201d in 2022, has also recently been \u201chaving some strategic conversations\u201d about how to get cast on \u201cThe Traitors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Roberts, now a recruitment consultant in Grafton, Vt., compared getting a call from the show\u2019s producers to buying a winning lottery ticket, adding that he was interested not just in being on TV, but also in playing the game.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it would also be a cool piece of escapism,\u201d Mr. Roberts said, \u201cwith a fascinating psychological component to it.\u201d<\/p>\n His \u201cReal World\u201d and \u201cReal World Homecoming\u201d co-star Melissa Beck, 47, said she would love to receive an offer to join the cast, too \u2014 not least because contestants, in addition to being eligible to win a six-figure cash prize, are also paid to appear on the show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt would revive your ability to get a check, the time commitment is fantastic, the prize pot is pretty cute, I bet the appearance fee is cool,\u201d Ms. Beck, who lives on Long Island, said. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t hurt that it has an Emmy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n While many of the notable contestants on the American version of \u201cThe Traitors\u201d have appeared on reality TV, its casts have also included members who became famous for other reasons. Ryan Lochte, the gold medalist Olympic swimmer, appeared on Season 1, and Deontay Wilder, a professional boxer, was on Season 2.<\/p>\n As the show\u2019s profile has risen, some famous fans from outside the world of reality TV, like the comedian Matt Rogers<\/a>, have also made no secret of their aspirations to be noticed by producers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n