Caroline Stanbury Talks the Housewives Coming for Each Other: "We're Not a Girl Band"

Caroline Stanbury: Does anyone enter that castle wanting to be Faithful? No. I wanted to be a Traitor. Of course I did. Having said that, now I've really seen how well they did and how well they're doing it. I mean, fair play, they were the best Traitors ever, I have to say.

100%. I would absolutely have taken Lisa out. There [are] no hard feelings and I think… that's Lisa. She is cold and tough and calculated —but so am I. I mean, it's okay. I'm not crying into my blanket, and I will see Lisa very soon.

I think Candiace is just as cold as Rinna and calculating, right? At the end of the day, they went in and that was their tactic, to kill the Housewives, which took the heat completely from them. Housewives killing Housewives is genius. Absolutely genius, and I think my last words were well, ‘I am a Housewife. I'm used to someone looking me in the eye and then stabbing me in the back,’ and that's really true.

Am I disappointed? Of course I'd like to be in there. Am I angry? Not really. I mean, it's a game and I'd like to think I'd be just as backstabbing and hard as those two B-*-*-*-Hes.

Well, definitely not them. I'm rooting for Johnny [Weir], Colton [Underwood], Yam Yam [Arocho], Eric. Those are my friends. Those are my guys. I had the best time. They made my time in the castle — Tara [Lipinski] — so much better. I really, really, really enjoyed myself, and I have to say I made some really good friends. Kristen. I like so many of them. I’d have been [a] terrible Traitor.

I brought loads of snacks. I actually watched TV, so I didn't read as many books as her and stuff like this. But she was incredibly sweet to pass on all of that kind of advice, but again I didn't do much better than she did. I think I lasted one more [episode].

Obviously, she was rooting for me and I think…all of our lot, that the other Housewives outside, we are rooting for each other. I think you know look, who knows what would have happened... You can't plan for these things. It is what it is. Who would have ever imagined there would be two Housewife Traitors?

I was quite vocal. You just didn't get to see it, but I do feel like I did know from Dorinda [Medley], who felt she was too loud and too friendly the first time, and she did say try, and like, scooch by a bit. But no, I didn't have a tactic because I didn't know the other people well enough that they would understand my different moods and my different characteristics, if I was changing or not, because they didn't know me so I just wanted to go in and get to know everyone as quickly as possible because you have [a] very, very short period of time to make judgments on people that changes their lives.

I was never angry at him. I absolutely ran Dorinda down to get Colton. I was using Colton as my shield.

Colton was the guy that did everything for me, and so I'm not going to be angry at him at all. I've never been angry at him or thought badly of him. He did his best. I know he did, and I think just the nerves caught up with him. Obviously, he's a football player, so, you know, his feet probably [laughs] are better for him than his hands, his building skills. And he felt terrible… I'm not going to punish him for that so it could have been anyone.

I did not want to do that challenge, and he did it for me so no, I'm not going to get upset with him. I'm having dinner with him when I see him.

I was really shocked. When I got into the castle, I did think Rinna kept keeping herself slightly away from everybody, but I thought that that was just Rinna being snotty. ‘Oh, darling, I'm — just too good for all this,’ I genuinely thought that that was what she was doing. I also knew in the back of my head, Rinna would be an epic villain because she is one all the time. That's her role and she was and she did it. You can't hate her for that.

Trust no one and don't trust the Housewives. I always said that we're not a girl band. We didn't join together. We didn't know each other. I don't know them like that. They don't owe me any loyalty as much as anybody else in the castle, so I think instead of grouping everyone together, don't think about that.

Think individually because obviously…first it was the gamers, then it was the Housewives, now it's Housewives hunting Housewives. They are mixing it up to confuse you in any which way they can, so you can't get comfortable with a strategy.

Oh, they're really proud. Sergio's here sitting beside me, but they're all really happy for me. They're sad that I'm not still in it, but…Sergio's coming to the States. We're coming for the reunion, so we're going to be in America for a month and he's always there clapping. If I'd been on there for one second, he'd still be there clapping, so I'm very lucky.

I'm going to address Rinna face-to-face. Absolutely.

I think Michael Rapaport I have a few questions for, just why does he have to be so obnoxious? I'm ready to meet them all. I liked most people.

Oh, my god. Can I tell you, I brought, I think, 18 or 20 looks? I think I wore three so, yes, I had some amazing ones coming up, but no mind. It is what it is. I'll have to go and stay in another castle and wear them there.

Oh, yes. [Laughs] I will see you, Lisa. I'll see you somewhere.