Faraaz Noor from The Traitors has revealed he was ‘in tears’ after receiving the offer from reported billionaire Umar Kamani to pay for him and his family to go to Hajj.
The 22-year-old Middlesbrough native lost out on the BBC show prize pot, having told his fellow cast members at their dinner party that he would spend the money on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
‘For me, being Muslim, Hajj is one of the pillars of Islam,’ he said in the Scottish castle. ‘Completing that pilgrimage in Saudi, going to Mecca. If I was to win the money, I’d love to be able to treat the family and all of us go as one.’
Shortly after the show’s finale aired, Pretty Little Thing co-founder Umar said on X: ‘I would love to send Faraaz from Traitors and his family to Hajj.’
Speaking at the Radio Times Covers Party 2026, Faraaz said: ‘I came back and I was talking to my mum and I was like, I just can’t… to Umar, I’m so grateful, Alhamdulillah, I was literally crying my eyes out honestly.
‘I couldn’t believe it.’
Inside the castle, Faraaz said: ‘Without them [his family] I wouldn’t be anything, so I just really want to treat them,’ he said, cheekily adding, ‘If there’s any leftover, I wouldn’t mind another motor as well.’
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Faraaz lost out to the traitorous two Rachel and Stephen, who banished and murdered their way to a 50/50 split of the £95,750 prize pot in Friday’s series four finale.
Umar, whose father Mahmud Kamani owns the online fast-fashion retailer Boohoo, was said to be worth £797 million ($1 billion), as of May 2024, according to The Sun.
It comes after Faraaz said in a post-match interview for the BBC show that his dream of taking his family on the pilgrimage was still alive.
He told the BBC: ‘Inshallah, one day I’ll be able to hopefully take them to Hajj or even complete Umrah. I’m looking forward to that.’
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Faraaz had been hailed a late-in-the-game dark horse to potentially win the show, after he became the Faithful’s last hope for weeding out Rachel’s impeccably good game.
But in the finale episode, the comms director managed to sway him back to thinking she was one of the good guys – even when she gave the game away and said ‘if I was a Faithful’ during a roundtable debrief in the bar.
If Faraaz had stuck to his guns and gone for Rachel in the final round of firepit banishments, he might have been able to slip through.
He told Metro: ‘When I saw my name on Rachel’s slate, I knew I was done and I was absolutely seething – there was steam coming from my ears. You probably didn’t see it, but I was gutted.
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‘I was toying between the two, and I knew if I voted Rachel, that was me protecting myself. I realised that should have been the right thing to do, but I was like, “I know it’s Stephen!”
‘I was seething about that — at least for that short moment.’
Metro contacted Faraaz’s representatives for further comment.
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A previous version of this article was published on January 27.
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