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| Sherry Kuehl Now: Where Is The Traitors: New Blood Contestant Today? |
Sherry Kuehl’s time on NBC’s The Traitors: New Blood ended when a single comment at the roundtable turned into a theory she could not escape. The 65-year-old writer had spent much of the season avoiding the spotlight, only to find herself accused of being a Traitor after Abby Lee questioned something Sherry had said about the women in the game. The vote went against her, and the irony was almost painfully neat: Sherry was a Faithful all along. Away from the castle and its increasingly suspicious residents, however, she has continued building a busy career as a writer, podcaster and social-media creator.
Sherry Kuehl’s The Traitors: New Blood appearance was hardly a masterclass in staying completely invisible, but that was partly what made her game interesting. As the oldest contestant in the first season, she initially avoided the sort of attention that can make someone an obvious target. She kept her head down, watched the other players and did not appear interested in creating unnecessary chaos. Sensible, really. Unfortunately, sensible does not always survive a roundtable.
Earlier in the season, Sherry’s quiet approach had already made her vulnerable. During the third episode, her lack of involvement was enough for some players to consider her as a possible elimination, although the suspicion did not stick. She later challenged Jay Vinnedge when he claimed to have information about a Traitor, arguing that there was little point stirring up the entire group without convincing evidence. It was one of those moments that sounds perfectly reasonable outside a reality-TV game, which is probably why reality-TV games tend to punish reasonable behaviour.
Her bigger problem arrived after the Death Parade mission. At the roundtable, Abby Lee told the group that Sherry had previously suggested that if all three Traitors were women, the group would not simply keep eliminating women. Abby interpreted the remark as something a Traitor might know rather than a Faithful might speculate about. Since the Faithful did not know how many Traitors were actually in the game, the comment suddenly looked suspicious.
Once that idea entered the room, Sherry struggled to get it back out. The theory gathered momentum and the majority eventually voted for her. There was no last-minute escape, dramatic reprieve or clever reversal. Sherry was eliminated and then confirmed what the group had failed to believe: she was a Faithful. In other words, she had managed to survive several episodes only to be undone by a sentence that sounded more revealing than she intended.
So, where is Sherry Kuehl now? She remains firmly involved in writing and media work, with much of her current public identity built around “Snarky in the Suburbs”, the persona she uses across social media. Originally from Waco, Texas, Sherry has made her home in Leawood, Kansas, where she continues to turn everyday family life, relationships and the peculiar situations people somehow find themselves in into material.
Her TikTok and Instagram presence has given that voice a much larger audience, while her podcast, also titled Snarky in the Suburbs, extends the same style into longer conversations. The show is available through Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube, covering life advice, personal experiences, gossip and the assorted characters who wander through Sherry’s world. She has a knack for finding comedy in family situations that might otherwise produce a long sigh and a closed bedroom door.
Some of her short-form sketches include “My Sister-in-Law Is a Brat,” “I Had to Sign a Legal Document Before I Saw My Grandbaby,” and “Monster-in-Law Alert.” The subjects are familiar enough to be instantly recognisable, particularly if you have ever attended a family gathering and wondered whether everyone involved secretly needed a referee. Sherry’s approach is to turn those awkward domestic moments into entertainment rather than pretending family life is permanently polished.
Her career, though, was established long before reality television and social media. Sherry has worked in broadcast and print journalism, with experience that includes CNN and Public Television, and she is an award-winning journalist. That background helps explain why she has been able to turn observations about ordinary life into a recognisable voice rather than simply posting random family anecdotes online and hoping the algorithm takes pity.
She also continues to write for the Kansas City Star, contributing pieces based on her own experiences and the social situations she finds worth examining. Her publishing career includes five books: Snarky in the Suburbs Back to School, Snarky in the Suburbs Trouble in Texas, Empty, Four Seasons of Snarky and Killer Dance Mom. In May 2026, she was also featured in The Curated Texan, giving further attention to the personality and writing style she has developed over the years.
Sherry’s family has played a significant role in the direction of her career too. Her daughter, Bella Kuehl, was the person who encouraged her to apply for The Traitors: New Blood. Bella apparently believed her mother had an advantage because she was capable of lying when necessary. That sounds like exactly the sort of encouragement a mother needs before entering a game where lying is practically a job description.
Sherry has also drawn on her daughter’s life for fictional and semi-fictional writing, including material inspired by Bella’s 2025 wedding. Family events clearly provide an endless supply of material for someone whose professional identity is built around observing the funny, strange and occasionally exhausting side of relationships.
Her husband, Kliff Kuehl, was president of Kansas City PBS before retiring in 2026. The couple have since been able to spend more time together, while Sherry continues juggling her writing, podcasting and social-media work. Her career now sits somewhere between journalism, personal storytelling and comedy, which seems fitting for someone who can turn a family disagreement into a book title and a reality-show accusation into another story to tell later.
The funny thing about Sherry’s Traitors experience is that it almost feels perfectly suited to her wider career. She spent years observing people and turning their behaviour into stories, then entered a game built entirely around observing people and deciding whether they were lying. Yet when the suspicion landed on her, the same talent for reading situations apparently could not save her.
Being good at writing about complicated people is clearly different from surviving a room full of them. Personally, Sherry’s post-show career is far more interesting than whether she managed to win a reality competition. She already had a distinctive voice, a journalism background, books, a podcast and a sizeable social-media audience before the castle entered the picture.
The Traitors simply gave her another wonderfully absurd chapter to write about. If you followed her season, did the Faithful get Sherry completely wrong, or did you also suspect her at the roundtable? Let us know what you think.