Celebrity Traitors winner Sebastian Croft gives half his prize to a refugee charity that accused Israel of 'genocide'
The Choose Love pop-up store on Regent Street; actor Sebastian Croft has acted as the refugee charity's ambassador since volunteering with it aged 15.Claudia Winkleman with Faithfuls Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft. James Blunt handed the pair their win by voting for a further banishment after the Traitors had already been eliminated.
Choose Love, the charity receiving actor Sebastian Croft's £41,500 share of the £83,000 prize, states on its website that Palestinians "are still experiencing a genocide" and previously signed an open letter demanding the UK ban arms sales to Israel. Tory MP Jack Rankin condemned the donation, saying licence fee money was being "shovelled in directions opposite to the national interest." Croft, 24, said he had volunteered with Choose Love since he was 15 and serves as its ambassador, directing the funds specifically toward queer refugees.
Co-winner Romesh Ranganathan, 48, pledged his equal £41,500 share to the Refugee Council, of which he became a patron in September.
Choose Love also funded legal costs for charity Asylum Aid's failed High Court challenge against the Tory Rwanda deportation scheme.
Sadiq Khan publicly backed both winners' charity choices on X, calling Choose Love and the Refugee Council organisations doing "incredible work."
