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Rob Rausch, the 27-year-old winner of The Traitors Season 4, fulfilled his promise to buy co-star Maura Higgins a Hermès Birkin bag on Watch What Happens Live, capping off a multi-platform saga involving Lisa Rinna, podcast host Jake Shane, and a live audience poll that broke the internet.
How the Birkin Promise Started
Rausch won $220,800 on The Traitors Season 4 by playing as a Traitor. He was a Traitor alongside Rinna and Candiace Dillard Bassett, and he later recruited Eric Nam to be a Traitor after both women were banished from the castle. Donna Kelce was also a secret Traitor.
The moment that set this whole story in motion happened between Rausch and Higgins. On the show, Rausch broke a “pinky promise” to Higgins that they’d win The Traitors together, after he revealed his true identity as a Traitor on the Season 4 finale, to her utter shock.
The betrayal was dramatic. The fallout was even more dramatic.
At the reunion, Higgins laid out her terms for reconciliation: she’d forgive her fellow Love Island alum if he bought her a Hermès Birkin.
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