Lisa Rinna made an audience cameo of her own at the Dancing With the Stars Season 35 premiere this week, sitting alongside Rob Rausch as her former Traitors co-star Maura Higgins made her ballroom debut. The moment doubled as a full-circle callback to one of the season's most talked-about accessory stories: the burgundy Hermès Birkin bag Rausch bought Higgins earlier this year, with Rinna's help, as an apology for betraying her on The Traitors.
Higgins, competing with professional partner Mark Ballas, performed a Traitors-themed Foxtrot to Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet" on the second night of the show's two-night premiere. As Ballas emerged from a coffin during the routine, he was seen holding Higgins' burgundy Birkin, with her voting details, "Text MAURA 21523," pinned directly to the bag, before tossing it into the audience. Cameras then caught the Birkin in the hands of Rausch, seated next to Rinna, sending the moment instantly viral on social media as fans connected the prop to the trio's real-life history.
Maura's dance referencing The Traitors and the Birkin bag. Lisa Rinna & Rob Rausch rooting her on from the front. She ate this entire dance down! #DWTS pic.twitter.com/8Zbjhyq51w
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