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Traitors Winner Rob Rausch Hasn’t Received $220,800 Prize Money Yet
Peacock, show Rob Rausch the money!
The Traitors season 4 winner said during a Tuesday, March 10, appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show that he has yet to receive his $220,800 grand prize after bluffing and “murdering” his way to victory.
“They still haven’t paid me,” Rausch, 27, confirmed to host Kelly Clarkson when she brought up the show’s six-figure prize pot.
Although Rausch has yet to see the money in his bank account, that didn’t stop him from making good on his promise to buy runner-up Maura Higgins a Birkin bag after he deceived her in the season 4 finale.
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Rausch revealed himself as a Traitor in the final episode of Traitors season 4 after he and Higgins — a Faithful — agreed to end the game. Per the rules of the game show, if the last celebrities standing are Faithfuls, they split the prize money, but if any Traitors are left when the game ends, the Traitors take all the money.
Rausch presented Higgins, 35, with a red Birkin bag on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen earlier this month, much to her delight. “This is my win. I knew I’d have my moment,” she said.
Rausch confirmed that fellow Traitor Lisa Rinna helped him purchase the bag, which she detailed in a recent TikTok video.
“Let’s talk about the Birkin bag!” Rinna, 62, said in her Sunday, March 8, social media post. “I’m so excited about the bag. I’m so excited that we got to come full circle. You can see how happy Maura is.”
“It was so fun helping Rob. My friends Isaac Boots and Jeffery helped with that connection because they had the connection in New York, so we were able to make that happen quickly,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum explained, noting that they would have otherwise had to have sourced the bag from Paris. “It would have taken a bit longer.”
“It all worked out so magically and then for Rob to give it to Maura on Watch What Happens Live. Just tickled me,” she said. “All of it has brought me so much joy.”
Elsewhere on Tuesday’s Kelly Clarkson Show, Rausch gave an update on what’s next for him after Clarkson encouraged him to go into acting following his deceptively good performance on The Traitors.
“Before Traitors, I would have said, ‘Hell no, I’m not doing that.’ But maybe I could do it,” he said. “At this point, all I can think about is getting home to my family. Spring is coming up. It’s my favorite time of the year. It’s about to get real green in Alabama.”