FORMER Love Islander Maura Higgins was given a £17,000 Birkin bag by the man who betrayed her on the final of The Traitors US.
Maura, 35, was fooled when American snake wrangler and TV personality Rob Rausch nabbed all the £165,000 prize money.
But he made it up to her by giving her a burgundy Hermès Togo Birkin 30 bag on Bravo TV show Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Maura said: “See this is my win.
“I knew I’d have my moment.
“You’re forgiven.
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“I love her.
“She’s beautiful.”
She also poked fun at herself for not guessing Rob was a Traitor by wearing a T-shirt with “I’m dumb?” printed on it.
Maura was later pictured leaving the Bravo TV studios in New York wearing a white outfit with huge fur collar and cuffs.
She also spoke to Elle USA, about the moment she was betrayed in the final.
She said: “The crazy thing about it is, I always have something to say.
“And in that moment — I don’t think I’ll ever forget it — I was genuinely speechless.
“I couldn’t speak.
“It was so crazy.
“Even my mum, she was, like, ‘You always have something to say’.
“And I was like, ‘But I genuinely believed he was a Faithful.
“Honestly, winning best-dressed of the castle, being runner-up on a show that I have never watched, and I’m getting a free Birkin, for me, that’s a win.
“I don’t need anything else.
“I genuinely don’t.
“That is a win.”
However, her movie career is off to an underwhelming start — her debut film, The Spin, took just £12,000 in its opening weekend in the UK and Ireland.