Purses don't often leave me starstruck. But when The Traitors star Maura Higgins pulled out her burgundy Hermès Birkin bag ahead of our sit-down, I was admittedly giddy. I blame that on the bag's widely reported lore. It's an approximately $22,000 apology gift from Maura's former Traitors ally and fellow Love Island alum Rob Rausch, promised to her during the show's reunion. Together, Maura and Rob supplied fans with a Hall of Fame–worthy reality TV scene when the 35-year-old Ireland native learned in the show's final moments that she wouldn't be splitting the show's ~$220K prize with Rob because he, in fact, had been a traitor the whole time. She was blindsided—visibly disgusted, in fact. She called Rob a "piece of work" and questioned whether he'd ever find love after this televised weeks-long showcase of his ability to deceive.
But the betrayal—and Maura's dramatic reaction to it—has probably earned her a spot in reality TV history. Throughout the course of The Traitors' latest season, she proved herself to be one of those bespoke reality television characters you could never script. Because along with her impressive personal style and distinct Irish lilt (her pronunciation of "think" has been widely imitated), she's got the endlessly quotable quality of the Snooki and Tiffany Pollard types who've preceded her—those who seem like their sole purpose on Earth is to be in front of a camera and provide one-liners for the rest of us to reference until the end of time. |
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