Maura Higgins Receives Her Burgundy Hermès Birkin from Rob Rausch After His “Traitors” Betrayal: ‘You’re Forgiven’
Maura Higgins Receives Her Burgundy Hermès Birkin from Rob Rausch After His “Traitors” Betrayal: ‘You’re Forgiven’
Kimberlee SpeakmanThu, March 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM UTC
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Maura Higgins and Rob Rausch on 'Watch What Happens Live'Credit: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen/Youtube -
The Traitors winner Rob Rausch gifted runner-up Maura Higgins a Hermès Birkin bag on the March 5 episode of Watch What Happens Live!
Rausch promised to buy Higgins the bag during The Traitors finale as an apology after revealing that he was a traitor
After Rausch gifted her the item, Higgins told him, "You're forgiven"
The Traitors runner-up Maura Higgins finally got her long-awaited Birkin bag, courtesy of winner Rob Rausch.
Rausch, 27, unveiled the luxury bag — which he had promised to buy Higgins, 35, as an apology after denying her the cash prize by revealing that he was a "traitor" during the show finale — on the March 5 episode of Watch What Happens Live!.
After host Andy Cohen, 57, polled the audience on whether they would forgive someone if that person bought them a Birkin bag, Rausch got up from his seat, put on some gloves, and retrieved the Birkin bag that he purchased for Higgins.
Maura Higgins and Rob RauschCredit: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen/Youtube
“Is there any chance you don’t like the bag [Rausch] brings you?,” Cohen jokingly asked Higgins, to which she replied, “No, he knows what bag I want… he knows every detail.”
Rausch brought over the iconic orange Hermès box and opened it for Higgins as he said, “I didn’t really know a lot about Birkins [bags]. No one has touched this bag. Only the owner is supposed to touch it first.”
“Is that the bag?,” Cohen asked after the Love Island alum finished retrieving it from the box. Higgins could be seen covering her face with her hands in happiness before Rausch finally handed it over to her to hold for the first time.
Rob Rausch (L) and Maura Higgins depart "Watch What Happens Live!"Credit: TheStewartofNY/GC Images
Higgins then showed off the burgundy-colored Birkin bag before getting up and hugging Rausch.
“All is forgiven,” Cohen could be heard saying as the pair hugged. Higgins echoed the sentiment, telling her Traitors costar, “You’re forgiven," as Rausch nodded and said, “Thank you.”
“Do you love it?,” Rausch asked Higgins, who confirmed, “I love her...She’s beautiful.”
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The Irish TV star also noted that their Traitors costar Lisa Rinna, 62, played a major role in helping to secure the bag, as Hermès bags can only be purchased by someone who has a relationship with the brand.
Maura Higgins and Rob RauschCredit: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen/Youtube
Rausch noted that Rinna, who was his fellow “traitor” on the show, “majorly” helped him procure the item. Higgins chimed in, “So Lisa, thank you very much for this.”
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Rausch previously exclusively told PEOPLE about Rinna’s help in obtaining the Birkin bag, which Higgins had requested in “burgundy with gold accent, size 30.
Rob Rausch and Maura Higgins on 'The Traitors'Credit: Euan Cherry/PEACOCK
"As soon as I told her about it, she was like, 'I will help you," he said.
"She's a very well-connected woman, and she did it. She gave me all her resources, and originally, I was going to get it from a guy in Paris. I was going to actually have to go to Paris, which I was going to do. But now we got someone in New York City…," he added.
The reality star scooped $220,800 in prize money when he won the Traitors, and while he told PEOPLE that the check has yet to clear, he said he “luckily” had “enough pennies to scrap together for Maura's Birkin."
As for the rest of the money, he plans to use it to plan for his and his family's "future."
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