‘Traitors’ Winner Rob Rausch on If He’d Come Back and His Necessary Maura Betrayal: “I Was Dreading It”

If there’s one thing the season four cast of The Traitors can agree on, it’s that Rob Rausch played a good game. Well, his former Traitors, who he voted off, might not agree, but even they’d have their moments of praise.

The Love Island alum came into the game knowing virtually no one. But very quickly, the 27-year-old Alabama native, whose non-reality television profession is quite literally snake wrangling, had the entire castle endeared to him. There were many moments throughout the season that contestants would get in their confessional and swear up and down that there’s no way Rausch could be a Traitor. There was no one louder on that subject than fellow Love Islander Maura Higgins, the only person Rausch knew before the show.

Starting the game with Housewives mainstays Lisa Rinna and Candiace Dillard Bassett as his fellow Traitors — Donna Kelce was later…