TRAITORS champion Harry Clarke has only just received his prize for winning the show – after being forced to borrow money from his dad for months.
Eager fans watched on as the the sneaky Army lance corporal scooped the prize when betraying model Mollie and taking the £95,000 winnings for himself.
The hit show’s latest series was was filmed in September last year and aired the finale last week – meaning the cash-strapped winner had been waiting four months for his prize.
But the sly winner revealed – while being interviewed on This Morning – that he had only been given his winnings last week, months after the show finished filming.
In the interview Rylan Clark explained to viewers how they often don’t realise that winnings on TV are not paid out until the show has aired.
And after being congratulated by the presenter for winning, Harry let slip that he had finally seen the money hit his bank account that day.
In the interview, he said: “I literally got the money on the way here this morning.
“I’m not going to do it but I want to take my top off and run around screaming.”
The show finished shooting in September and Harry explained how he had to keep his winning news a secret until after the finale hit screens.
Hosted by presenting veteran Claudia Winkelman, Harry claimed the prize on Friday night after a nail-biting end where he tricked model Mollie, 21, into trusting him.
But up until receiving the prize the Traitors winner said that he was broke and had been relying on lending money from his dad, even though he would soon be sent nearly £100,000.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, he said: “I haven’t got a pot to p*** in. I don’t even know when I get the money.
“I’m still borrowing money off my dad now. He has my bank account on his phone because he has to tell me to stop spending money because I’m always broke.”
Now, the winner can rest easy knowing he has more than enough to repay his dad – and can use the rest to splash on anything else that catches his eye.
Harry also admitted to wanting to treat his co-star Mollie and her partner to a holiday, in an attempt to relieve himself of the guilt from cashing in on the show’s prize and leaving her penniless.
He said: “I would love to take Mollie on holiday with our other halves. I want to work like a donkey for the year and then treat them both.
He said: “I feel she deserves it. She might still hate me now, though at the time she said, ‘This is the game’.”
Just under seven million people tuned in to see the show’s finale where fans watched on as Mollie put her faith in the soon-to-be discovered trickster – who eventually duped her into believing him before claiming the life-changing prize for himself.
Speaking on the reasons he was so determined to bag the grand-prize, Harry said his upbringing in Slough gave him the drive to win.
The 23-year-old said that a lot of locals in the area have their “lives mapped out.”
He said: “You marry young, have kids and then hate your life and are in the pub Thursday, Friday and Saturday — and I didn’t want that life.”
After admitting that he wasn’t sure where he “fit in” and out of his 12 siblings was always the one “getting told off or in trouble” he joined the army at 16 and became an engineer.
He said: “I started working part-time in a butchers at 13 to sort myself out. I had too much energy to be sat behind a desk doing a normal job so I joined the Army.
“The trade I went into has an 11 per cent pass rate.
“I don’t know where I would be without the Army. I would probably be on the side of the road somewhere, or in trouble.”
