Why Jake and Leanne 'won't have received any of £94,600 prize fund yet' despite winning The Traitors eight months ago
Jake and Leanne won this year’s season of The Traitors after one of the most dramatic final few episodes in the show.
Whether it be Charlotte becoming a late game Traitor and throwing Freddie and Minah under the bus, the introduction of the Seer role, or the last minute banishment of Francesca and Alexander, it has been an unforgettable season.
Jake and Leanne bagged a whopping £94,600 by making it to the end of the final roundtable unscathed and kicking out Traitor Charlotte, before banishing fellow Faithfuls Alexander and Francesca.
Despite this though, they likely won’t have seen a penny of it just yet.
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Even though they'll be receiving £47,300 each, due to filming starting in May of 2024, they likely won almost eight months ago - meaning they probably won't have been paid until the final broadcast.
This revelation was made last year by season two winner Harry Clark.
Harry won after fooling everyone by playing an absolute blinder of a game, with him even fooling his best friend on the show, Mollie Pearce, who was a Faithful the entire time.
Though Molly stormed out of the final roundtable on discovering she had been deceived by her Traitor friend, Harry would’ve been reassured by the £95,000 he won off the show.
Despite this, Harry revealed after the show aired that he hadn’t actually received the money yet, four months after filming took place.
He said in an interview with The Daily Star of winning: "I’d won, but then I had to go back to work and I couldn’t tell anyone so I sort of just wanted to forget about it.
"Now it’s like reliving it and being able to tell everyone that I’ve actually won The Traitors series two. I felt like I was lying even more.
"I had a month where I had to lie to people and build connections on a lie and then I get home and then I’ve got to carry on lying for four months again, just even about being on the show - let alone winning it.
"So it’s been a relief, last night was a massive relief because it’s like, 'Oh okay, I don’t need to lie for a bit now so I can chill out'."
He finally revealed that he had yet to actually receive the money: "It’s mad, isn’t it? I can’t really believe it. I can’t even explain it because, well one: I haven’t got the money yet, so that’s probably why.
"And two: I just can’t believe it. Like I still can’t believe it."
This is likely due to the producers preferring to conceal who has even appeared on the show between filming and release, let alone who won.
This is further confirmed by this season's Freddie, who revealed on last night’s Uncloaked that, rather than tell people he was on a show, he was forced to tell his uni friends that he had gotten an MI5 internship.
Topics: The Traitors, Money, TV and Film, TV, BBC
Michael Slavin