Here’s what the Season 2 winner says she plans to do with her $72,000 winnings
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“I keep saying this, it hasn’t sunk in at all. Maybe once the cheque clears,” said Kalantar in a Zoom interview from Toronto on Dec. 3, the morning after she was crowned the winner of the CTV reality show.
“It’s for my mom’s retirement,” said Kalantar about her hair stylist mom Mahnaz. “She’s a single mom. She came to Canada and raised us by herself, so she deserves that.”
Shot last summer in Montreal, The Traitors is a murder mystery-like game in which the “Faithfuls,” in order to avoid being murdered, must figure out who are the three “Traitors.” In this case, Kalantar was the last Traitor standing.
Kalantar’s win on The Traitors was a third time lucky situation, as she was previously a house guest on two seasons of Big Brother Canada.
“I did Big Brother Canada season two, and then it went back for season five,” said Kalantar. “Season two, I played pretty well. Season Five, I was awful. So I learned from my mistakes this time around.”
What she learned heading into The Traitors was that “alliances matter a lot.”
That strategy, combined with a very determined approach to keeping her cards close to her vest, were keys to capturing The Traitors title.
“It was Botox,” said Kalantar, laughing. “My facial expressions give everything away about me and that actually really hindered me on Big Brother. Like, if something shocked me or someone was saying something I didn’t like, you could really see it on my face. This time I’m like, let me just get some Botox. Let’s just hide everything.”