Mercedeh “MJ” Javid built her name across nine seasons of Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset before a heartbreaking, deadlocked finale vote on Season 2 of The Traitors became the moment most viewers now associate with her. She reached the game’s final three as a confirmed Faithful, only to be voted out one step short of the win by a castmate she considered a friend.
Long before that vote, Javid was already one of the more grounded, career-focused personalities in the Shahs of Sunset cast.
Tehran to Beverly Hills
Javid was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1972, and her family immigrated to the United States around the 1979 revolution, settling in Beverly Hills, California. Her father, Shams Javid, worked in real estate development and remained close to her throughout his life until his death in February 2018; her relationship with her mother, Vida Javid, has been more openly strained across her years on television. Javid graduated Beverly Hills High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from California State University, Northridge, in 2002.
An Original Cast Member of Shahs of Sunset
Javid worked as a real estate agent for years, first alongside her father and later at Keller Williams Realty in Los Angeles alongside castmate Reza Farahan, before Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset premiered in March 2012 with Javid as an original cast member alongside Farahan, Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi, Sammy Younai, Asa Soltan Rahmati, and Mike Shouhed. The show ran for nine seasons through August 2021, and Javid remained a main cast member for the entire run, appearing in 98 episodes. Her storylines over the years included a 1994 bank fraud conviction she revealed on the Season 2 reunion, and, later, her courtship, wedding, and difficult childbirth experience with husband Tommy Feight. In March 2023, she joined Mauricio Umansky’s brokerage, The Agency, working out of its Calabasas office and continuing to build a real estate career that predates and outlasts her reality-TV fame.
The Finale That Defined Her Traitors Run
Javid entered The Traitors as a Faithful and quietly built one of the season’s most successful runs, reaching the final three alongside CT Tamburello and Trishelle Cannatella after the trio unanimously banished the game’s last Traitor, Kate Chastain. With all three players confirmed Faithfuls, the group faced one more vote before splitting the prize. It ended in a three-way deadlock: Tamburello voted for Javid, Javid voted for Cannatella, and Cannatella voted for Tamburello. In the tiebreaker, Cannatella switched her vote from Tamburello to Javid, banishing Javid just short of the win and leaving Tamburello and Cannatella to split the reported $208,100 prize.
Javid has been open about how much that ending stung. At the season’s reunion special, she called her former allies “grifters” and revealed she had blocked both of them on Instagram. About six months later, she told reporters she was ready to forgive Cannatella, saying, “I am gonna unblock her. I really am… I’m going to hop on, unblock and I might even hit a follow,” but she did not extend the same forgiveness to Tamburello.
Divorce and a New Bravo Show
Javid filed for divorce from Tommy Feight in late 2025, after roughly seven years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences following a separation dated to mid-October that year. The couple married on April 21, 2018, at the Jeremy Hotel in Los Angeles, and welcomed son Shams Francis Feight, named for Javid’s late father and Feight’s late mother, on April 17, 2019, after Javid underwent IVF and experienced serious complications that put her in the ICU during labor; she’s said publicly since that she can never carry another child. She and Feight reached a mediated custody agreement over Shams in December 2025, and Javid has described the co-parenting relationship since as amicable, saying she’s focused on her career, her son, and herself rather than dating.
Javid reunited with Shahs of Sunset castmates Reza Farahan and GG Gharachedaghi on the new Bravo series The Valley: Persian Style, which premiered January 8, 2026, and was renewed for a second season that May. Around the show’s launch, Javid began publicly using “Mercedeh,” the Persian pronunciation on her birth certificate, rather than the anglicized “Mercedes,” saying she wanted to model pride in her heritage for her son.
Life Now
Between the divorce, the custody agreement, and a fresh chapter on The Valley: Persian Style, Javid has spent the past year rebuilding her public life around her son and her real estate career rather than her reality-TV past. Her Traitors Season 2 run remains one of the more talked-about near-misses in the show’s history, covered alongside the rest of that cast in OpenThreadNews’ Traitors Season 2 cast guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does MJ Javid now go by Mercedeh?
Around the January 2026 premiere of The Valley: Persian Style, she began using “Mercedeh,” the Persian pronunciation from her birth certificate, to better reflect her heritage for her son.
How far did MJ Javid get on The Traitors?
She reached the final three as a confirmed Faithful before a deadlocked tiebreaker vote led Trishelle Cannatella to eliminate her one step short of splitting the win.
Is MJ Javid still married to Tommy Feight?
No. She filed for divorce in late 2025 after about seven years of marriage and reached a custody agreement over their son, Shams, in December 2025.
Has MJ Javid forgiven her Traitors castmates?
She has said she’s forgiven Trishelle Cannatella but not CT Tamburello for how the finale vote played out.
