Maya Jama Donates Entire Prize to Charity Despite Celebrity Traitors Loss
Updated 16:03 31 Oct 2026 GMTPublished 15:46 31 Oct 2026 GMT
They're still going to get the money from Maya Jama
Maya Jama has announced she's donated what she would have won on Celebrity Traitors to her chosen charity, even though she didn't make it to the end.
Sadly for the game-long Traitor she was banished at the roundtable and didn't last until the final firepit, which saw remaining Traitor King Kenny also booted off the show and Faithfuls Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian 'Bash' Croft winning the prize pot for their chosen charities.
Everyone on Celebrity Traitors went into the show with a chosen charity they'd be donating their portion of the prize pot to, and Maya Jama had selected Action for Children.
She confirmed her donation on social media today (31 October) as she called the group an 'amazing cause', and Action for Children works to help vulnerable children with issues such as poverty, abuse and finding a foster home.
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Over the course of the show the celebrities had amassed a prize pot of £83,000, which in the end was split equally between the two remaining winners.
Ranganathan's charity was the Refugee Council, with him saying: "I am playing for the Refugee Council, helping displaced people who need help, and of course it’s very close to my heart. So I’m very, very grateful for this."
Meanwhile Croft's share which amounts to £41,500 has gone towards Choose Love.
“It’s an organisation that I used to volunteer at," Bash explained.
“The money will be going to refugees and displaced people, but predominantly queer refugees and displaced people, and they are just the best organisation.”
Even if her hopes of making it to the end were scuppered by the group finally wondering why players with no heat on them were still in, Maya Jama had a darn good run of things as she was there from the very beginning and lasted until almost the final hurdle.
Action for Children has got the money even though Maya Jama didn't win Celebrity Traitors, which is nice of her to do (CARLOS JASSO / AFP via Getty Images)
Her fans have said she's been 'absolutely incredible' on the show and off it since she's making sure the charity gets some money, while others called her an 'absolute queen' for doing so.
Hailed for her 'superb act of kindness', the book is unfortunately closed on the latest series of Celebrity Traitors which proved to be hugely entertaining right from the moment Richard E Grant directly admitted to being a Traitor (just a few minutes after he'd been picked) right through to James Blunt realising he'd made a huge mistake by voting to keep the game going when it would obviously mean he was going.
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