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Traitors’ Rob Rausch Reveals Where He Stands With Leah Kateb
Rob Rausch is sharing an update on where he stands with ex Leah Kateb two years after they won over fans on Love Island USA.
During a Wednesday, March 4, appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, the Traitors season 4 winner, 27, was quizzed about whether there’s a chance of a friendship with Leah, 26, with whom he was coupled up on Love Island USA season 6.
“I haven’t talked to Leah, like, since pretty much after the show, right after the show,” he said.
“It’s been a long time. I wish them the best, but probably not,” he added.
They got a text — and found love in the Love Island USA villa. The beloved British dating show made its way across the pond in 2019, following a crop of American bombshells searching for The One in a luxury tropical villa. In season 1, eventual winners Elizabeth Weber and Zac Mirabelli had a connection […]
Rob and Leah were instant favorites on Love Island USA season 6, but Rob ended things with Leah when Andrea Carmona entered the villa. He was ultimately eliminated from the show after 30 days.
While he didn’t find love on Love Island, Rob recently revealed that he has found love with a mystery woman, whose identity he is keeping private for now.
Rob shared during the Traitors season 4 reunion that he had been dating someone for “almost two months” and “[it’s] very fresh.”
Viewers also wondered if there was something between Rob and Maura Higgins, who was runner-up on the latest season of The Traitors.
Maura Higgins, Rob Rausch on “The Traitors” season 4 Courtesy Euan Cherry/PEACOCK
“I’m not gonna ruin it for the viewers, but no, nothing ever happened between me and Rob,” Maura, 35, told Us Weekly in an exclusive cover interview recently. “I genuinely look at Rob like a brother. Literally nothing ever happened.”
“People online are saying I’m ‘d***matized.’ Believe me, you would know if I was d***matized. If they think that’s me flirting, then they do not know me and they have never watched me on Love Island,” she added.
Rob told Us, “We did not [hook up], and we will not. We are just friends. I’m touching the chair [in a viral scene from The Traitors season 4], not her leg!”
Rob took home the $220,800 grand prize during the Traitors season 4 finale but consoled Maura by offering to buy her a Birkin bag, which he gifted her on Watch What Happens Live.
“He told me he’s going to get me a gift, which is going to be a Birkin handbag. So when he gets that, then he’s fully forgiven,” Maura previously told Us. “For me, a girl that has not watched Traitors, not one episode of Traitors, I got to the finale, and yeah, I didn’t win, but I got to wear all my outfits. And if I get that Birkin handbag from Rob, then for me, I have won. That’s all I need.”