Real Housewives of Dubai? Well, this could be interested. I will totally be watching. However, Bravo fans NEVER watch the good international shows. Real Housewives of Backwater Mississippi? Sure, that they will watch. Ladies of London? Not so much. Tour Guide? Cancelled without showing the entire season. Mexican Dynasties? Nope. We can barely keep Family Karma on the air. But, hey! I’m down with Dubai.
The cast has not been announced yet but these six women are rumored to be the cast. I have NOT confirmed this with any of my sources. My main source seems to be MIA at the moment hopefully on a well-deserved vacation to somewhere. But IF this is in fact the cast, it looks like a good one!
Who Are The Real Housewives of Dubai?
Both of us who watched Ladies of London of course remember Caroline Stanbury. Caroline Stanbury is never without a storyline. She moved to Dubai with her then husband, Cem Habib and their three kids. But they have since divorced. She was planning to move to the US, but then found her a boytoy. Sergio Carrallo, 26, is a Porsche-driving former Real Madrid footballer. He has a master’s degree from an elite university and legions of female admirers of child-bearing age.
Yet he and Caroline who is 45 are going strong in Dubai and apparently plan to get married very soon. Much to the chagrin of Sergio’s father who allegedly offered him literally any amount of money he wanted to leave her. Currently, the couple is going strong and she seems to have won over Sergio’s mother, but not the father.
As for the rest of them, I really don’t have any information on them. I did stalk their IG accounts. I will link to them below for all of you.
Lesa Milan Hall https://www.instagram.
Sara Al Madani https://www.instagram.
I’ll be watching! I’ve loved all of the foreign Bravo shows.
My first thought…Caroline Stanbury? I remember her!…then I scrolled down and you did too!
Looks like an American, a Brit, and the others African/Middle Eastern.
I’ll await your first review before deciding to watch. I’ve heard a lot of things about Dubai and I’m really not sure how the Housewives Universe will fit in there.
This show will be interesting…..too much public bad behavior will piss of the gov …. And women are a lower class in UAE – god forbid you show too much skin!!! They will be spending tons….sadly Lindsey Lohan didn’t make the cut 😉
I loved Ladies of London!
I am excited for this franchise. It should be loads of luxury and beauty.
I loved it too. The gal that took over the manor of her husband’s family has a show about the manor and does a great walk thru. Mapleton manor or something like that. I loved Caroline S. too. Lots of tragedy for that cast though looking back now.
Gosh I cannot tolerate that Julie Montague, American who married the Earl of Sandwich. She is insufferable. She is the narrator on Royal Family issues. Right now the new special on CNN. She thinks she was born Quuen of England.
Housewives did 2 in Canada. First in Vancouver, which sucked. Then Toronto which rivaled NY or BH in their heyday.
Julie Montague is a national treasure.
Oh Geez, I am reluctant to get involved with another one of these out of the ordinary shows. Every time I invest in them they disappear. I actually have liked most of them BETTER than the USA version of whatever they are supposed to be.
I hope Family Karma comes back. I miss Mexican Dynasty. I loved Ladies of London and the one in Australia. They are all gone and we are stuck with the screaming mess of women we have now. No offense to my fellows sister Americans. But let”s be real……..
I like the overseas ones too
Couldn’t agree with you more- I’ll watch Dubai simply to jeer at that dreadful Caroline person!
I cant wait, I LOVE Caroline. she is pure elegance
I loved her on Ladies of London
Dubai is one of the richest cities in the world so this makes total sense LONG OVERDUE
No Melbourne on is on at the minute in Australia 🥰 So happy about Dubai TT I really hope Caroline Stanbury is involved I love her!!! She doesn’t care who likes her or who doesn’t!! She said herself before she didn’t think the filming laws would leave a real housewives franchise work over there!! I’m stalking her Instagram and she hasn’t mentioned anything yet whether she is not allowed yet or is just not taking part!!
How do you watch RHOMEL in the states?
You can stream it off of the South Hemi TV website. That’s how I watch their version of MAFS, which is so good too!
Holy shit, you are my favorite person – I am watching Melbourne now thanks to you!
Yay! Glad to help.
OMG, it worked! I thought I had tried everything to find this show…WAY better than anything in the US. Thank you so much!!!
Awesome thank you!! Love the Australian version of MAFS. Also their bachelor/bachelorette too.
How can we watch past seasons? I watched seasons 1 and 2 but haven’t found links for season 3+4.
Thanks!!!
OMG I have wondered how to watch since bravo aired a random season years ago! Thank you for this info! Now I’m
going to try to find the Cheshire one
Thank you for the info!!
Searching for all of the goodies to watch!
Andy has been making all the talk show rounds this week announcing the show and promoting his stupid book of quotes. He says the cast is set but has yet to be announced. I’ve seen this list enough to believe that it could likely be accurate.
I’ll watch. Dubai fascinates me.
I watched Ladies of London while living in London. Had met two of the Ladies of London prior to the show – so it fertilised the acorn that became the oak that I am now.
I will watch. I also hope Family Karma returns. I am currently watching RHOP and RHOSLC but also Melbourne & Cheshire.
The Melbourne producers must have checked out the views on SLC because the scenic shots are to die for – SLC raised the game on the location shots & Melbourne certainly raised their game too. It’s actually what I like about these shows – A lifestyle I don’t have in places I can only dream about.
Where are you finding Cheshire?
Loved Ladies of London!
I’ll definitely be watching. Loved Ladies of London.
As soon as I heard this I thought about Caroline Stanbury! I’ll be watching, can’t wait.
When I heard about this I immediately thought of Caroline Stanbury! Dubai housewives may be the wealthiest. All that ostentatious wealth is fascinating to watch. When Dorit does it I immediately think of maxed out credit cards. The Dubai wives? I won’t judge at all because this is expected.
I remember a few years back Bravo had Real Housewives of Melbourne and New Zealand, and I enjoyed watching. I’d watch all the housewives if they were available. There’s one in Vancouver which I looked up and a friend of the housewives had cut my hair once, but this wasn’t available to watch on Bravo.
I LOVED Ladies of London, Melbourne, and Mexican Dynasty. I miss these shows like crazy!!! Back in the day I rarely commented but loved your recaps TT and still do. I will be watching Dubai. 🙂
Melbourne is back on! the fourth episode of season 5 aired just this week. The season opens up with Janet Roach (how good is that name) on a private plane bragging about the rich man she bagged. Lydia and Gina quit though and they brought in a whole new cast to replace them. So far it’s been meh but Janet and Gamble are doing their best to carry the show.
I feel like saying that I will only watch if Family Karma comes back first. Bravo cannot continue to get us invested in (wonderful) families like those on Family Karma and then expect us to move on because THEY are bored. Nope – not gonna do it. Bring back Family Karma first!
Very exciting. I also love Caroline but would caution easily offended people from stanning her because she has a mean streak and will upset woke twitter before long. She is like an amalgamation of Bethenny and Ramona with a bit of Kelly chaos. So rich and funny though, smart too. I wonder who the rest of the cast is.
I really think this will be good. The Dubai government is a literal business that pays celebrities to come live there in order to attract foreign money. Expect them to pull out all the stops to make this as luxurious and attractive as possible; this is a big PR opportunity for them. Remember Chika’s trip on Melbourne? their hotel rooms were like palatial apartments with multiple floors. My hopes are high.
I’ll be watching – love Caroline Stanbury! I do (did) love all the shows from other countries. I stopped watching all the American housewives due to low class screaming drunken idiots. Do read every recap however! 🤭 SO miss Mexican Dynasties.
My favorite scene in Ladies of London is when Caroline asked the model Caprice to leave her home. “Now please” as Caprice stood there. Very polite and very on point. She’s refreshing. I will watch. I’ve also enjoyed all the overseas franchises.
Family Karma must come back but I wonder how that would really work for the cast as they may have truly gone their separate ways.
I know of Lesa Milan from when we both lived in Miami. All I can say is all that glitters is not gold. It will be interesting to see how she portrays her life and relationship.
Yeah, there are a lot of rumors going around about her. One, such rumor says she has been an escort for years, another is I believe they said she was on some sort of reality show several years ago? Spill it!
Lesa Milan Hall was on College Hill on BET a long time ago. She also was a Miss Universe contestant from Jamaica. I hate to say it but when I searched on her name all these things involving escorts kept popping up! Well it seems she got married and upgraded her life. Great for her! I’ll be watching for the luxury, glam and scenery!
I didn’t know how much I could say on here! Yes, you are correct about those rumors! The reality show was College Hill: South Beach. It was a show on BET years ago following college students at HBCUs. What’s even more interesting is that she thought she hit the jackpot with her husband, but his business dealings are a little shady and the lifestyle he promised is mostly borrowed. It always amazes me how these people sign up for reality shows knowing about their past, but hey the money and potential earnings are good!
Thanks and say whatever you want!
I’m all for watching Caroline Stanbury’s fabulous life with her HOT, young soccer player boyfriend. I can’t wait!
As someone born and raised in a Gulf state — I am EXCITED and READY for this!
This cast looks great. Curious to see how they appear on screen. That region is all about protecting your image and name so truthfully I see them going the RHOBH route of “dont air my dirty laundry and I won’t air yours.”
Will wait and see. But looking forward!
Some people have been making the argument that you can not talk about sex and other things of the sort in Dubai so the show maybe limited in what they can discuss. I assume that production / Bravo have already figured out how they are going to work around that.
I am surprised that despite Real Housewives not performing like they used to, they are creating another franchise. This may link back to your source saying the suits have no idea what to do creatively.
I am not setting my hopes too high, better to exceed my expectations than to have them not be met. I am excited to see Caroline though.
They can do whatever they want in the privacy of their homes, drink alcohol (though you have to have a card to purchase it and they limit the amount per month or something, I forget). There is no PDA allowed regardless of sexual orientation so that does not cramp gay people more than anyone else. Although when I lived in Libya it was very normal for men to hold hands walking the streets, that is not allowed in Dubai for really anyone. Dubai is the most open of all the Emirates, but all do have social structures. At the bottom are those from other countries who come for manual labor. They live in dire conditions in many cases and are held to strict laws.
Rich Americans/Expats with money are coddled a bit more. There is a HUGE HUGE international Expo going on now that will probably be happening when the show films. I think it might be a two year thing.
I travel solo and will not go alone to Mexico, but I would go alone to Dubai. I would just be worried about my foul mouth. LOL. I actually LOVE that women and families have separate seating in restaurants from men. And women are in general are treated well there. I would feel safe.
Where I really want to go is Libya and that is not a safe place for a woman traveling alone unless maybe you are on a tour group or something. So this could be my next best thing.
Half of the possible cast look angry in their photos. About the RHOL, next to the dark haired American, Juliet, I think, Caroline was my least favorite. I thought all she did was complain about something or someone. Maybe her young athlete keeps her in a good mood now.
A lot of people are acting like Dubai is not safe. They do have a lot of laws that we do not. But when you go to another country, you have to abide by their rules. Bravo obviously doesn’t air in Dubai. However, I’ve heard that filming restrictions are really tight there too about what you can show. The government could easily ask to see all the raw footage and that could be problematic. But, I believe that Bravo has filmed in Dubai before… I want to say it was for that crazy family that is rebuilding some palace in Florida…. Also Caroline Stanbury and one of the Million Dollar Listing women I believe filmed there for an episode.
I’m actually shocked at all the messages going around about how Dubai isn’t safe (and esp for women)
I mean I know there’s some degree of stupidity and ignorance, but this is next level.
I was in Dubai a few years ago safest I have ever felt anywhere and I would happily go back there on my own! You can drink like normal in all the hotels and bars etc you just can’t be disrespectful anywhere which in my opinion is a really good thing!!! That’s why you feel so safe there!!! I can’t wait for this!!! I’m laughing TT Andy and his book of quotes 😂