Mollie Pearce, a Traitors finalist, has explained where she and winner Harry Clark stood following THAT final.
With a peak of 6.9 million viewers tuning in on Friday night to watch how the last roundtable would develop, the country was on edge.
But, eventually, there was only one winner: Mollie, a 21-year-old disabled model from Bristol, came second as a Faithful, while Traitor Harry, 22, received £95,150.
Fans yelled at their televisions when Mollie opted to send Faithful account manager Jaz to the showdown instead of British Army engineer Harry, leaving her empty-handed and him quids in.
Mollie yelled and walked out of the studio as it was discovered she had been duped by a close friend on the famous BBC game show, despite earlier telling him she would ‘never talk to him again’ if it was proved he was a traitor.
Reflecting on the moment of betrayal during Friday’s final, she said: “Obviously, it stung at the moment, as you can see by my reaction.
‘I think it was more the guilt of Jaz as well because, obviously, I’d taken Jaz’s experience and he left at the last minute, which wasn’t very nice, so it was more the guilt of that.’
She added: ‘I was upset, but it was a game and I think people forget that is what we have to do. And when you go in there, that money’s never yours anyway. I never thought I was going to get to the final, I never thought I was going to have the money.
‘You know that you’re going to have people that betray you in there, you can’t hold a grudge, you sign yourself up for that game and you have to accept the outcome.’
She said that she and Harry are doing ‘well’ today, which will delight viewers who were previously concerned about Mollie’s decision in the final.
‘There’s no beef at all with me and Harry, we are the same as we were. And I’m happy for him as well.
‘Watching it back, you can see what a good game he played, he had me totally fooled, and I think he had a lot of people fooled in there.
‘I know, obviously, it focused a lot on our friendship, but there were a lot of other people that were convinced by Harry. It just happened to be me at the end with him.’
Mollie claimed that she and Harry visited each other shortly after the final, which aired in September last year, to ‘nip it in the bud’.
When she recalled the reunion, she giggled about ‘calling him a name’ before exchanging a huge hug.
‘I think in that moment you’ve got to just laugh about it, to be honest, I just said to him, “Fair play”.’
Mollie described Claudia Winkleman’s game as ‘crazy’ but claimed she ‘had the finest time’ and does not want the outcome to ‘take away from that.’
Mollie first picked Harry in the final exile vote, but immediately erased his name off her whiteboard after asking him, ‘It’s not you?’ And, of course, he affirmed that he was not a traitor.
She stated that she considered the suspicions presented about Harry by Faithful Jaz and Traitor Andrew, but was influenced by her feelings at the time.
‘I’m quite an emotional person and I think the friendship just took over for me and I just couldn’t do that to him without fully being convinced he was a Traitor, I just would have found that really, really hard,’ she added.
‘Because if he stood up there and said, “I’m a Faithful”, I would have felt so guilty, I think I couldn’t win.
‘I couldn’t have won because I would have felt guilty whatever I did.’
Meanwhile, following his major triumph, Harry stated that he and Mollie got along so well because they similar interests.
‘We’re both young and obviously we were both missing our partners, so we would just talk about them all the time and what we would do with the money and where we wanted to go and the things we wanted to do and the things we wanted to see,’ he said.
‘And now, with her partner and my partner, our friendship’s gotten even better because now we’re supporting each other since this whole thing began, this whole craziness, we’ve always been there for each other.’
When asked if he had considered sharing any of the mega prize fund with Mollie, he said he ‘doesn’t even want to think about the money’ but rather give it to his dad and then ‘put it in a bank where I keep adding to it and leave it.’
‘And then next year go somewhere nice and travelling or something like that, and then hopefully do it with Mollie and her fella, that’d be amazing.’
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Source My Celebrity Life.