I’m trying to get through my DVR and get things down to a reasonable number of hours this morning. I had totally forgotten about RHODubai. It kind of got lost in the muddle of recordings. So I’m going to try and bang out a RHODubai recap. I’ve been up since four or five this morning so it seems like it should be nighttime for me! I’ve also been hydrating a lot due to Just Jenn helping with Instacart. I’m so grateful to have plenty of water and some gatorade. It’s really helping. I just managed to get porkchops in the oven. Now I need to buy Hazmat suit to address the situation in the kitchen. It’s disgusting.
Anyway, everyone who is actually watching Dubai LOVES IT! Chanel Ayan and pretty much all the rest of the ladies. Caroline Stanbury is the only person who is getting trounced. She is being called out for her behavior on this episode in particular.
Speaking of Caroline, we begin Caroline and Sergio going to the construction site where Caroline’s HUGE villa is being built. Sergio points out there is plenty of room for babies! Caroline is not hearing it. Sergio doesn’t know how surrogacy works. I doubt they even allow that in Dubai. Meanwhile, Brooks is looking at retail space for her spa. Nina talks to her husband Munaf about a birthday party for his business partner. It will be an all cast. Oh and her husband also wants to know what kind of Rolls Royce she wants. Oh and apparently people spend millions and millions of dollars to buy a license plate with a low number. I had never heard of this so I Googled it and it is true. Prestige is a big deal in Dubai.
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I just opened my curtains for the first time in weeks. I was shocked at how high the front hedges had grown so quickly. Then I realized it wasn’t quick at all. I really need Lawn Kid to show up today. The grass also needs cutting again and back 40 is so out of control I’m going to need to call the guy with the rider. If no one shows up today, it will be Monday before anything is done. Sorry. I’m just seeing the outside world for the first time in close to a month. Lesa is trying to work in her office with three boys. Most of the office is a play area. Where is her nanny? Her husband runs the finances for her company as well as multiple finances for his own. She is pisssed she can’t do anything financial without his approval.
Ayan Almost Married Her Hot Cousin?!
Ayan and her husband have a son ready to go off to college. She literally wants to go with him. I do see her enjoying four years in Boise, Idaho. She mentions she was supposed to marry her cousin in an arranged marriage and she was fine with it because he was hot. But then, she fell in love with Chris. Huh? She asked Chris to marry her four times. When he finally said yes it was a week before the wedding to her cousin. Her family was pissed. Everything was done and paid for. Ayan and Chris seem to really be in love. Brooks is sending her kid to school on the bus and he is getting bullied.
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Stanbury and Sara meet for lunch to chat. Caroline admits she didn’t go to Lesa’s fashion show because she isn’t doing anymore toxic situations. How is going to a fashion show Toxic? She says she just wants to be in her bubble right now. Oh Lordy, not another love bubble. Next. everyone gets ready for Nina’s husband’s party for his business partner, Bijan’s birthday extravaganza. Even extravaganza is not a big enough word for this event. It’s like Cirque de Solei on steroids and cost just under a million dollars. WOW.
The Main Event
This is going to be hard to follow because some of them are wearing masks. Lot’s them keep changing up their hair and wearing wigs. Marc emailed me this link the other day. Apparently, I have something in common with Brad Pitt! So, um… yay? Ayan and Stanbury do the housewife double kiss greeting. Sergio sits across from Stanbury which places him right next to Ayan. So she points out he has a lot of glitter in his beard. Meanwhile, Stanbury is lying to Lesa about really wanting to be at her fashion show to support her. But, Lesa is very skeptical. She thinks Stanbury just didn’t want to be around Ayan. She sure was able to show up to this over the top event thought.
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Meanwhile, Ayan and Sergio are having a nice little chat. Didn’t we just go through this on Southern Charm with Kathryn’s boyfriend daring to speak so someone she didn’t like? This never ends well for the couple. As Sergio assures Ayan that he expects her and Stanbury will be good friends eventually. Meanwhile, Lesa is stuck trying to defend herself to Stanbury. Suddenly, the expected outrage explodes. Stanbury calls Sergio a girl and says he fucking loves everybody. Crime of the century? Then, she asks some white guy to come over. She tells him “my husband has become one of them!”
Twitter thinks this comment is about skin color. Apparently, Lesa does too because she asks Stanbury twice, “what is them” and says she is dying to hear her answer. Stanbury ends her tirade with, “I hope she is going to suck your dick.” I mean, I wouldn’t mind. I too love Sergio.
Did Stanbury Get Dropped On Her Head As A Child?
Ayan had gone to the bathroom before all of this drama started so Lesa fills her in when she returns. Ayan says she is tired of being nice to this bitch, she is so evil! I guess Stanbury went somewhere for a hot minute too. When she came back, everyone was talking about how awful she is. She denies saying what she just said. Production rolls back that beautiful bean footage and plays it again. It just happened minutes ago. She does a complete one eighty and says what she said was that she thought it was nice that Sergio and Ayan were chatting. WTF?
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The she has the audacity to accuse LESA of stirring the pot? Make it make sense. Well, this sudden event of Stanbury and Ayan hugging it out doesn’t make sense either. These girls don’t need to be friends with Stanbury if she is going to be a pot stirring delusional bitch all the time. Ah, Ayan is not buying it.
Next Week THIS HAPPENS:
Phaedra can barely afford air fare to Dubai. In coach. Why the hell would she try to pretend like has anywhere near this kind of money? It’s so ridiculous.
WWHL With Dorit And Stanbury
Caroline defends laying in the bed her dog peed in. Caroline announces that they have a baby boy on ice. She says she IS going to carry it. No surrogate. But, do we really need to replicate her genes? Dorit takes Sutton’s side over the dark comments drama. SORT OF. Caroline continues to talk crap about Ayan. This is just too ridiculous to watch. I can’t believe I bothered to pull a photo. Sergio is there. His father offered him a very large sum of money not to date her. Dorit says she has been “officially diagnosed with PTSD.
Caroline Stanbury is typical, wealthy, old money, upper class British.
I love her and could just watch a show about her for days!
Can’t wait to see the wedding. Most of the Ladies of London are there.
Ayan makes for good TV.
Except for my favorite, Annabelle. 😭
That was so sad. I always identify with the broken souls. She was definitely my favorite.
Yes, absolutely Nanette. Her death was heartbreaking.
Hmmmm, I feel the opposite, can’t stand her.
She creates her alternative reality – she denied her words and actions then attacked others when called out in it. She stuck to her lies when asked about it on WWHL.
I thought Stanbury sounded drunk. In fact her friend said she needed to slow down. I didn’t get a racist vibe from the “them” comment. I thought it was more like “oh, your one of them that takes Ayan’s side”.
I didn’t get that vibe either. I thought it was about Ayan and…. Lesa? As in he was being nice to my enemies! It was Twitter who thought she was being racist. People like to throw that word around a lot lately. When we need to focus on the blatant racists all over the TV.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I sense all of these women have watched Real Housewives shows and feel the need to Jen Shah every. Single. SCENE.
Nina and her husband are so obvious. And mark my words – they do no have anywhere near the funds they pretend to have (also bragging about assets when said assets are Bitcoin…. Yeah, how’s that working out for you?)
I feel like they are all pretending to be the housewife they think we want to see, rather than being themselves. IDK – something is off with all of them
CS seems very thin skinned and vicious. She did not like her boy toy talking to the ladies and totally emasculated him in front of the women. Her love bubble is very fragile. Ayan is growing on me. Her beauty and quirkiness is interesting. The kids playing in the office is a big no and any man in Dubai would never allow that. They want Dubai to be seen as totally progressive but there are cultural limitations. It has been fun the see another world away. Thanks for the recap!
I agree. Ayan is the one I would mark as authentic. She is fabulous and doesn’t give a F what the ladies, especially CS think of her.
The others are trying too hard. CS seems to be off – she was such a force to be reckoned with on LoL. She looks different (factoring in age) she’s lost her …. Sparkle
Aside from Ayan, I feel it’s too forced and all of them are faking it.
I wasn’t going to watch Dubai but there’s nothing else on TV right now so I have it on as background noise every week. I honestly don’t understand why Sergio puts up with Caroline. He must really hate his parents. She treated him horribly at that party. As far as WWHL, Andy had on 2 of my least favorite Housewives.
Am I making this up, or did I hear right that Sergio is 27?
Yup and she’s 45. And he wants a baby. He should run as fast as he can ur maybe she’s his sugar mama.
He has money of his own and comes from money. He was a very highly paid professional football player with Manchester United for six years or so.
Caroline Stanbury’s shoes are horrendous in the WWHL pic. Sounds like Dubai has brought out the worst in her. The other ladies will edge her out as they do events etc. together.
I agree with a lot of you. I think that many of the Dubai women have watched all of the HW series and are parakeeting some American housewife. CS makes me sick. She has this huge sense of entitlement and demands loyalty from people simply because she lives and breaths on this planet.
Call me crazy, I think Caroline is already pregnant. It was so strange I got this vibe when watching her on WWHL. She had this very loose flowy-belly covering top on. Caroline was very under dressed for being in NYC. She looked like she had an adult onesie on !! They did a shot and Andy said OH Caroline what are you having vodka ?because it looked like water and Andy and Dorit were have tequila.
Dorit was unusually “less wordy” I think she didn’t want people comparing her accent to Caroline’s authentic upper London accent. I do believe Dorit about the LVP texting BS after the robbery.
Seems as if Stanbury and Sergio are attached at the hip. He’s always with her.
Is her money, family money? I seem to remember that from LOL. She’s definitely playing her part on RH.
Chanel is probably the most fun hw I’ve seen in a while. But I’m unsure if I like her, yet.
I must be the only one that really really dislikes Ayan!!
I’m loving seeing Dubai. I’ve flown through there lots but never stayed…
You aren’t alone. I don’t like Ayan either.
Sarah, how far is Dubai from the closest major Aussie Airport? You know I am always trying to plot how to get there from the US with a series of flights no longer than 9 or ten hours. 🙂
I don’t have good news for you. You can’t get here in under 10 hours. LA or Dubai to Sydney is 14-15 hours. We are a long way to anywhere, except NZ. 26 hours from Australia to Germany is my best hope.
I think we have had this conversation before. Can’t y’all just scooch The island a bit further north? I think maybe I could do 14 in first, on Quantas. LOL. I just need to see if The Clermont lounge is hiring! https://www.clermontlounge.net/
Im not Sarah but the shortest flight is from Perth, coming in at just under 11 hours 🙂
From where? Dubai? Perth is like a billion miles from Sydney and Melbourne and Cairns though!
And you can now go on a direct flight to Rome from Perth!!!
I think it’s 5 hours from Sydney to Perth. Quite acceptable for us but much quicker to go to New Zealand.
Hmm Maybe Rome to Perth? How far is that? LOL. I just need to be on Quantas. NOT the affiliate American.
I’m not sure why I am pretend planning an International trip right now when I am trying to crawl my way to Kroger a whole three miles away. I forgot that in the Great State of Georgia, your car tag expires on your birthday.
So far, I have managed to get the INCREDIBLY smelly trash out of the house and made it to the mailbox for the first time in weeks!
Kroger has a machine where you can get your new sticker if your brain works well enough. I struggled with it last year when I was saner.
My mom’s favorite saying is to always have a trip planned, gives you something to live for- But I have taken 3 trips in 3 months, so no trip planned-yet, but yes!! You need to plan a trip for sure!
I think it is easiest to do it online. You don’t have to leave the house! Kroger is a crowded chore.
TT Do what this Aussie does – its about 9 hrs from Hawaii to Sydney. I can’t stand more than that & I love Hawaii. I fly in and out through Honolulu – customs much nicer than LAX & then fly 5 hours to the mainland – either Los Angles, Las Vegas or San Francisco before another probably 5 hour flight to the East Coast. And then I reverse it on the way back.
If in the future… If there still is a future… I go one way to Sydney via this route, I wonder if the return flight would be cheaper to buy in Australia than in the US?
Also, where to stay in or around Sydney, best time of year to come, etc.
THIS IS ALL HYPOTHETICAL at the moment. I’m not great at planning and usually just end up jumping a plane to Paris because I know it pretty well at this point. From there I could just do Europe and it would be much simpler. And easier to get home in case of an emergency either with me or family back home.
I don’t think there’s a bad time to be in Sydney. Unless you hate crowds and the heat!!! Don’t go in December or January, it’s hot and that is when we get our long summer school break. February is really hot too. I love March, April, May, October but winter is nice too (June to August). Always check it’s not school holidays. I love The Rocks area, it’s the heritage part of Sydney around the harbour. My husband and I stayed at the Four Seasons, got a great deal during covid because there were virtually no tourists. Spectacular view of the harbour including the bridge and the opera house.
The Perth to Rome flight is 15-16 hours. I wish they would do one to Munich. When I go next week I fly from Canberra to Brisbane (1.5 – 2 hours), wait there 7 hours then about 8 hours to Singapore then 12 to Munich. I leave 6am Australian time Monday and arrive 6 am German time Tuesday (plus the 8 hours Sydney is ahead). Ugh
I loathe ayan!!!
That party was INSANE! I think some of them are overacting but I still love this show so far. The backdrop is stunning
They all look/act alike except for CS to me. The only other one that stands out to me is the stick thin former model with a chip on her shoulder who also reminds me of a praying mantis for some strange reason. Lol. I am glad to see that women are able to have more freedom there than what I thought previously.
I won’t watch this because of Stansbury. Her snobiness is not chic. It’s outdated and obnoxious. And that stupid Gift Library. I was not surprised it went belly up.
The only time I liked her on LoL was when she was in that unicorn onesie dry humping Juliette’s husband. Because that pissed of the social climbing twit, Juliet. One of my least favorite people on any reality show.
I am loving RHODubai and surprisingly hating Caroline who I adored, even her snarkiness, on LOL. But she is just embarrassing now. She comes off as insecure with her overt constant criticism and negativity. IMO she is having an identity and/or mid-life crisis. The first thing she always says about her man is that he is 20 yrs younger, not that he is great, smart or gets her or even exceptionally hot. She is working her hardest to seem younger, even sacrificing her style. She dresses like a teenager now. Was that a tacky crop top and holey jeans when she went to the hotel with boring, trying too hard to Nina? Has she been raiding her daughter’s closet? And when she met the one for drinks in again tacky jeans and the same top I have from 20 yrs ago. To say that if she doesn’t give him a baby, he will leave when she clearly doesn’t want one herself is crazy. They are in two different stations in life but losing a young hot guy is tied to her youthful delusions. Their dynamic is parent-child. I sincerely hope they would get a surrogate if they have a child. She can explain how science works to the guy. Caroline has loss enough dignity already, her pregnant while in a spa getting her botox and juvaderm to look younger would be only another indignity at this point. On the other hand, Lesa and her hubby are the real deal Holyfield. I have people in Dubai and he’s “The Man” in finance. Her clothing business makes Caroline’s Gift Library look like the vanity, give a wife something to do, project it was. Lesa is beautiful, very smart, and fabulous while being down to earth. . Brooks is suspect but Ayan is everything! And everything I want in a HoHousewife. Her clothes are next level ( are you watching Dorit), her antics are hilarious , she is open and honest with her shade and her vulnerability , and a loyal friend. Makes me think if Iman and Grace Jones had a baby. Lesa kooks like a prettier, softer version of Meghan Thee Stallion (is that correct name?). BTW, not being able to tell the black woman apart because they change wigs or whatever sounds a little lame at this point, no shade intended.
Loved your comments until the end. Either you are brand new here, or didn’t click the link in my post regarding Brad Pitt, because I can’t remember faces at all without a struggle and rely on hair. Even the hair barely helps me on RHOOC where they all look exactly the same except for Vicki.
This season of Southern Charm will be challenging!
Other than Leva, Venita, Paige, and Patricia, all of the girls are starting to look alike, especially the new ones. And Kathryn, with her bleached blond hair … YUK! Her red was so much prettier.
Everyone likes to talk about how Twitter is full of trolls, and it is. But you control who you read on your Twitterfeed. And there are a lot of nice people there like you guys.
HOWEVER, I also enjoy trending topics and finding out what is going on in the world. So I just read that Caroline Stanbury who just started her family vacay with Sergio and the kids was robbed at their first destination. I stupidly read the comments and the trolls were brutal. Also the trolls have very poor reading comprehension skills. She was lambasted for saying she was going on vacation on social media. They also thought it was her house in Dubai when it was her first stop on a two month trip, the first day! And the robbers were still in the house! She very clearly stated all that and also mentioned how safe Dubai is. There is virtually no crime there because the penalties are SEVERE. When I lived in Libya the penalty for stealing was the cut off one of your hands!
I just can’t believe how horrible people were to her.
Cut off the eating hand so you have to wipe and eat with one hand!
When you were in Libya, did you ever go into a MODERN bathroom and see a tall decanter of water next to the toilet? Symbolic, I hope! We stopped by a friend’s parents’ house once and THERE IT WAS! I had to tell my other friend what it was for. Then we couldn’t stop laughing. Good thing the parents were not home. Good thing there were silly photos of everyone on the walls between so we had an excuse to laugh.
TT, I don’t know you struggle with remembering faces. Sorry, no shade was intended.
No worries. It’s a weird thing. People here kind of get used to it. LOL. I can be a lot. Welcome to the family!
It seems as if some people are talking about Phaedra doing some “matchmaking” for a fee if you will in Dubai.
I love Stansbury as she DGAF about anyone and anything….luckily she was not hurt when robbed in Mykanos.
I think she’s my spirit animal as I don’t care either about what people say about me or think of me…no excuses!!
…Ayan is heinous. Her clothing is heinous. Her attitude is heinous. Her dowry was $1000? Lol
It’s quite obvious why CS is your “spirit animal.” SMDH.
Regarding identifying faces, I only recently figured out how to tell apart Meredith and that other one on Salt Lake. It took a long time. The way they keep changing their hair from long to short, it’s confusing! I do this with every new show.
Does Stanbury even like her young fiance? She puts him down so much in all their scenes. I believe he loves her and he’s completely infatuated. She likes the idea of a young man in her life.
Remember her ex Cem? He was a man, mature and sexy. The new guy kind of has that tan complexion with the facial hair. She literally upgraded to a younger model. What’s Cem up to? I’d rather watch him than the shitshow scenes of Stanbury pretending to be a young woman in her early 30s rather than the mid-40s person she is. She dresses like a mall rat from the 90s! Those cropped tops are a solid no! Although I recently went to a local event and all the teenage girls were wearing crop tops and I just felt old because its all downhill here.
BTW, I just learned to tell Nina apart from the orher one. The other one covers up everything and the Nina one is married to that rich guy and she likes cocktail dresses. I’m super impressed I figured this out.
I can’t even picture who Nina is. Since I have been sick with God knows what for a hundred years it seems, I can’t remember a thing. I was just trying to remember which bank my lock box is at. There are only two options. I am clueless. I haven’t been there for a while and was thinking today I haven’t changed out my rings since sometime before the pandemic. My brain is shot. I think I am getting early onset Alzheimer’s or something. Not even kidding.
Caroline is still close to Cem. She had Cem, his parents, her parents, Sergio, his parents, her former SIL Sophie, her ex, and her other brother and sister’s spouses for the holidays at her home. Cem actually DJ’d for Christmas and New Years at her home.
I love this show for the scenery.