The Traitors Season 3 Winners Reveal How They Spent Their Prize Money (Exclusive)

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The Faithfuls stayed faithful to one another by splitting the Traitors season 3 prize pot among the last four players standing.

As a result, winners Dolores Catania, Dylan Efron, Ivar Mountbatten and Gabby Windey each walked away with their share of $204,300 in the March 6 finale.

“You’ve got to live with yourself,” Mountbatten, 61, tells PEOPLE of why he chose not to banish at the fire pit. “The money in this great scheme of things, it’s not huge. In 20 years’ time, you’re going to have your memories, and would you really want to know that you diddled somebody over for a few thousand extra quid? It’s how you get there rather than the money.”

Efron, 33, says he did some “quick math” and realized that banishing another player didn’t make sense. “If we would’ve got rid of Dolores, let’s say, and finished with the three of us, that’s $17,000 extra each —  after taxes, $10,000,” the travel influencer explains. “So I’d rather be friends with everybody.”

The triathlete ended up using his cut of the money in a very practical way. “I moved out of my one-bedroom little studio and now I’ve got a guest room and a dishwasher,” Efron says. “I’m still learning how to use it!”

Mountbatten’s share went to his 28-year-old daughter Ella, one of the three children he welcomed with his ex-wife Penny. “The eldest and the youngest both went to university, so I paid for their school fees. The middle one is a paramedic, so she’s gone on a different course,” the royal family member says. “She wants to get a camper van and travel around a bit, and I feel that she was a bit short-changed, so, I said I’d do that.”

Part of Catania’s winnings will also go towards one of her children: her son Frankie, who got engaged to Nicole Perricho last month.

“I was going to buy myself something, and that’s not happening because my son got engaged, so now I have to put that towards that,” the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 54, tells PEOPLE.

Catania will also donate part of her prize money to Halfway Home animal rescue, and a shelter in Patterson, N.J.

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“The fact that I won is my gift,” she says. “I’m a f—ing winner. Get out of my way, I won The Traitors! Don’t f— with me.”

After returning from filming in Scotland, Catania, Traitors’ first winner from a Bravo show, headed directly from the airport to her mom’s house for a plate of spaghetti and meatballs. “My mother had it waiting for me fresh,” Catania says.

Mountbatten enjoyed reuniting with his husband James and their dog after filming, while Efron looked forward to taking a dip in the ocean. “I was so excited to get sunshine because we were indoors a lot, it was raining a lot,” the Down to Earth with Zac Efron star and producer says. “So I went immediately into the Pacific Ocean, jumped in, got sunshine and started a routine. I was back in the gym and I was happy as I could be.”

But Efron misses the friendships he formed in the castle. “It’s so fun to live a life like that where we’re all in this crazy experience together,” he says. “Now we’re back in the real world and it’s always a little sad to say goodbye to the people that we were just with. This was the experience of a lifetime for me.”

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The Traitors season 3 is streaming now on Peacock.

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