Since entering The Traitors' castle on day one, Maia Gouveia has already become one of the series' most memorable contestants - but her life off-screen is just as endearing. Having entered alongside her sister Armani, Maia, 25, proved that she wasn't afraid of turning on her sibling just days into the show when she admitted that she was "60%" sure that her sister was a Traitor.
In a dramatic turn of events, Armani was quickly banished from the castle when her fellow contestants correctly identified her as being a Traitor. But despite successfully figuring out the identity of one of the three original Traitors, it clearly didn’t make it any easier for Maia. As she watched her sister uncover her true identity, the mum-of-one was left in floods of tears as she admitted: “Even though I know she's a Traitor, that's still my sister; she is everything to me, so it felt weird to betray her.”.
Away from the castle, Maia is a self-confessed “full-time mum” to her daughter Ava, who is two years old. Prior to entering the castle, the TV personality opened up for her reasons for applying for the reality show and admitted that the cost of raising a child was a factor in her decision.“Second one was the money. My daughter is going to nursery soon and that's expensive. It's like having a mortgage, so that was also a motivator,” she explained.
Maia, from Essex, has amassed more than 26,000 followers on Instagram where she gives fans a peek inside her life as a mum. In one particularly sweet post, The Traitors star reflected on becoming a mum in her twenties. “She makes me the best version of myself, how could I not be happy?,” she wrote.
