{"id":504113,"date":"2026-03-04T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:25:07","slug":"traitors-star-maura-higgins-on-dwts-hopes-acting-and-robs-birkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504113\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Traitors\u2019 Star Maura Higgins on \u2018DWTS\u2019 Hopes, Acting and Rob\u2019s Birkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDon\u2019t worry, Traitors fans, Maura Higgins<\/a> is definitely getting that Birkin bag winner<\/a> Rob Rausch<\/a> promised her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s saying it\u2019s in the works. I don\u2019t want to say I\u2019m trusting him again,\u201d Higgins laughs during an early morning Zoom with The Hollywood Reporter. The 35-year-old Irish reality star jokingly calls back to the iconic line to Rausch in the finale: \u201cYou pinky promised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair were the final two players of the hit Peacock reality series, with Higgins betting it all that her closest confidant in the castle Rausch was also a Faithful. Unfortunately, for the Love Island alum, her closest friend also happened to be the season\u2019s most savvy Traitor, revealing during the finale that he had tricked Higgins and won the game solo. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the show\u2019s reunion special, a deal was made for Rausch to make it up to Higgins by buying her a Birkin, and it\u2019s looking like the Love Island U.S. contestant is following through on his promise. \u201cLisa Rinna<\/a> is helping him because obviously you can\u2019t just walk in and buy a Birkin. But Lisa, the queen she is, she\u2019s got contacts,\u201d Higgins says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want my handbag and then he\u2019s fully forgiven. I\u2019m happy. he\u2019s happy,\u201d she continues. \u201cHe won the prize money. I won best dressed and a free Birkin Handbag. That\u2019s a win. For me, that\u2019s better than winning the show. I\u2019m deadly serious when I say that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHiggins\u2019 realization that she wasn\u2019t winning the show like she thought was a devastating moment, but admittedly good television and meme fodder. \u201cI can\u2019t go on my phone without seeing my face like this,\u201d she says, recreating her shocked face when Rausch revealed himself as a Traitor. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI went through all the emotions at that fire pit, and then I forgave him. I said, \u2018Fair play.\u2019 And then I went off to Fiji and filmed my (Love Island) Aftersun,\u201d she says, laughing. <\/p>\n

\n\tHiggins admits that going into the game, she had hoped for herself something similar to Rausch\u2019s trajectory. \u201dI begged Alan [to be a Traitor<\/a>], but you know what? I guess afterwards, maybe he knew I was lying because I tried to tell him I\u2019m a really good liar, but maybe it was obvious that I was lying,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reality star adds, \u201cMy mammy always said, \u2018You\u2019re not a good liar. Your face gives away everything.\u2019 But then, when I saw myself on the screen lying to Eric [Nam], I was like, hold on. I was quite good there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHiggins is plenty busy with her Love Island work, however, she does have a few post-Traitors. She\u2019s not interested in anymore game shows, sorry, Traitors, don\u2019t count on her for an all-star season, but she does have her eye on that Mirrorball Trophy. \u201cMaybe [I\u2019d do] Dancing With the Stars,\u201d she says when asked what she\u2019d consider next.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019d be a challenge for me. I\u2019ve never danced. I\u2019d done a bit of Irish dancing when I was younger. It\u2019d be a huge challenge, but I know I\u2019d throw myself into it and all the looks and glitter,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

\n\tHiggins says she and her fellow season four Faith Mark Ballas, a multi-season winner of the hit ABC dancing competition show, would dance in the castle. \u201cWe had a lot of fun,\u201d she laments. \u201cHe\u2019s just an incredible dancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOther than Dancing With the Stars, Higgins says there\u2019s \u201cseveral conversations\u201d happening at the moment she wishes she could share more on. \u201c[There\u2019s] a lot of exciting conversations with designers. Obviously, I really love fashion, so there\u2019s a lot happening around that, which I literally could scream about,\u201d she says excitedly.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThen [I\u2019m]also having exciting conversations with producers and execs in the scripted world, which could be very different for me,\u201d Higgins continues, sharing how grateful she is to be in this position. \u201cThere\u2019s stuff happening that I could have only ever dreamt of, things that are on my vision board that I probably never thought would become a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t worry, Traitors fans, Maura Higgins is definitely getting that Birkin bag winner Rob Rausch promised her. \u201cHe\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,590,229600,229601,229602,58096],"class_list":{"0":"post-504113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lisa-rinna","11":"tag-love-island-uk","12":"tag-maura-higgins","13":"tag-rob-rausch","14":"tag-the-traitors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}