And on we go with the RHODubai recap. We are still at Raffles. But first, we have to get to my girl Chanel Ayan. I watch this show for the scenes of Dubai and AYAN and her over the top fashions for any event. As it turns out her son is a model too and has been since childhood. He is gorgeous.
Meanwhile, back at Raffles, Stanbury and her boy toy are meeting with both of their parents prior to the wedding. Caroline basically says her mother is a British bitch. I mean, does that surprise anyone? Her mother asks Sergio if his parents “speak good English.” Blah, blah, blah, Caroline is rich and Sergio is not. This whole conversation is awkward.
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LESA STILL HAS THE GOAT! LESA STILL HAS THE GOAT! I am not the most animal person but that goat is adorable. And since Lawn Kid ghosted me, I could really use a goat! Also, I think that Lawn Kid is abusive to baby mama and told her she could not work for me. I may try to call her at some point. I also found out that my good neighbors who were also helping him have stopped. Her kids are cute, too. But, I’d rather have that goat! Brooks is pissed about Sarah giving her parenting advice. I ONE THOUSAND percent agree with everything Brooks said to her. However, you should never EVER give unsolicited parenting advice. Sarah was wrong. Full stop.
Nina’s Kids Are Adorable
They are all trying to wash dishes. Which is cute. And, it reminds me of this one time when I as living in Tripoli as an elementary school child. The ex-pats were all pretty close and one day this couple with kids around my age came over. The visiting girls thought it would be fun to clean the kitchen. We were all very young and at that age where we wanted to play grown up. So we washed some dishes, put them away and kind of pretend cleaned. As it turns out, that whole family had cholera or something recently and mama lost her goddamn mind. Because she didn’t know what dishes they had touched and had to wash every dish in the house. They were a bit older than me but somehow that was my fault. WE THOUGHT WE WERE HELPING! It’s funny NOW.
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Meanwhile, back at Raffles… I just went to see how much a room costs and the website is annoying. So I can’t tell. Caroline is having an engagement party in the desert where everyone wears white. This will be important later. Covid is sort of ruining things. Stanbury is very bossy toward her boytoy. Why is she telling him where he can stand? Caroline has managed to borrow a $770,000 diamond necklace. I’m not buying it. It looks like something someone would put on a dog as a collar. A million tiny diamonds do not cost that much.
The White Engagement Party
Stanbury is such a bitch. She is so mean to Sergio. Nina is really worried about her dad who is in the hospital back in the US with Covid. I cannot explain how BEAUTIFUL the desert is. I used to play in it all the time. Once, I was digging around just outside my house and found an artifact that went into a museum in Libya! I miss the desert so much. It’s 102 degrees when they arrive to the white party. Ayan picked a dress in an early scene to wear. IT IS NOT A BRIDAL GOWN. Stanbury, on the other hand has a dress where my mama would say, “Your twat is hanging out. ” And she is wearing cowboy boots???
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Did she not known Ayan would come with a LOOK? Stanbury will never look better than Ayan in any scene. Sergio, the man child wants really good photos? I see you, Sergio. Stanbury thinks Ayan is in a “wedding dress” she also claims she is wearing a veil. SHE IS NOT. She just looks better than you with your twat hanging out at your age. Deal with it. Stanbury says “You don’t go to a woman’s wedding in a wedding dress. Um, bitch, this is a WHITE PARTY to celebrate your engagement. IT IS NOT A WEDDING. Jesus. Sergio has no thoughts of his own.
Age Appropriate?
Look, I am old. Wear whatever you want but really? This is the engagement party for you when you are pushing fifty? Boots and a mini dress with a train? I mean you do you boo. But you can’t come for Ayan just because she did it better. Drama happens over the who parenting issue. Everyone has a different opinion. It’s all a bit of miscommunication. Also, if that was real cockroach in the desert, they brought it with them. Scorpions are much more likely. Oddly, the bride to be is hardly in this scene at all. Brooks and Sarah get into it. Sarah needs to back off this topic.
Stanbury is such a bitch. I used to like her on LoL but age has not improved her. She will always think think of herself as a hot 25 year old. She’s a beautiful woman but she really does need to admit she’s getting older like the rest of us. Sara is really overstepping with the child rearing advice. She’s annoying as hell. Love Ayan! She would make a potato sack look glamorous. This show is the bomb! Hoping it’s renewed. Not at all trashy like the Real Housewives shows have become.
What did she expect insisting everyone wear all white?!?
I happen to agree with Sara … Caroline B has her help do everything for the boy- even cut his food for him. Her son seems like an accessory. BUT Sara shouldn’t have said it out loud.
I can’t with Brooks. That was an outsized reaction. What a monster. And episode 1 where she had the kid on her lap and was saying “never leave grow up and marry me”? Desperate much?
That was a “guilty” reaction. The help literally does everything for that boy. It’s really sad to watch.
This is pretty normal for expats living overseas. Hired help is SUPER CHEAP so almost every one (not my parents) did it. I do agree with you however that she is a totally hands off mother and that is not good. Where is the husband/father? I think her kid is WAY WAY too young for boarding school. My brother only went in HS because the American school only went through grade nine. HE LOVED IT, The company paid for it, and he had field trips like FLYING TO LONDON to see Hair on their version of Broadway.
He also bought Sweet tarts and bubble gum for me at Christmas. Any kind of American candy was a HUGE deal in Tripoli. He was at a fancy school. And when he was courting a girl (or whatever it is called these days) the school chef would make picnic baskets for them to eat in the Alps. At one point in my life, I was trying to teach internationally and that school was at the recruiting conference I went too. They had no interest in me. Mostly because my speciality is remedial reading. Those kids are highly educated.
I think a lot of women who were incredibly beautiful in their youth got so used to be spoiled and appreciated, that they can’t comprehend that as they have gotten older their looks have changed. Not to say they aren’t still attractive, but different type of attractiveness and not to the level of their youth. They still expect to be fawned over the same as when they were young.
Great point! Also, the means I’ll never know the soul-crushing realization that I’m not a hot 25 year old since I never was a hot 25 year old :-):-):-)
I like this show too. But I heard the ratings are abysmal. Stanbury is very different on this show than LOL. I like seeing scenes of Dubai!
I’m surprised. I thought it would do well.
OK, I watched it! I didn’t think Chanel (?) was wearing a wedding dress. But I agree Stanbury’s outfit was “trying to hard to be relevant and youthful”! Loved seeing the desert!
Egad! The elitist attitude (or maybe just tone deafness) of Caroline’s parents when talking to Sergio’s parents. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Not going to comment on the round robin drama on the “she criticized my parenting” outrage. Ei Yi Yi, ladies it’s ok to say “I wasn’t there, and wonder if there was a misunderstanding”🙈🙉🙊 . Oh wait, then the HW shows would only be 15 minutes long 🤷🏽♀️ 😅.
Slightly OT, I really dislike WWHL tacked onto by DVR taping. I need my DVR space AND I think (wonder) if it inflates Andy’s ratings 🤔🤨. Curious.
Thanks TT for recapping and sharing your oversees experiences. Hope you are on the mend.
I DESPISE ANDY FUCKING COHEN RACTCHET LITTLE SHOW tacking his show on to th houswives..
OMG. You literally make me laugh out loud. He has been called out a Lot lately for his shady questions, and he was like “Who Me?!” Yes, You Andy!
I loathe Caroline stanbury. Her ‘vanity’ company in London went bust owing money all over the place and to her employees. Did she feel bad? No, she spent her time cackling over her architect’s plans for her house in Dubai- her husband gave her a blank cheque to encourage her to move there with their kids. She was also shagging around – including one very famous parent from her kids school – allegedly David Beckham.
OOOOOOHHHHHH. Interesting. Thanks.
Ayan served! Her outfit was incredible. It was such a fabulous desert look. I’m happy we got to see the desert. Dubai is so beautiful.
Hilarious how Stanbury and her baby husband freak out. In what world is Ayan’s look a wedding outfit? They’re all so weird. The marriage isn’t going to last.
This show is so fun to watch. I love seeing how rich people live.
Now which one of them is the felon? Lol.
This show is great and the only Bravo ‘must see’ for me at this point. Thank you TT for sharing stories from what sounds like a fascinating childhood. Hope yoi feel better every day. I am also grateful you mentioned how insanely ridiculous Stanbury continues to look. I say something every week in disbelief of the sheer level of tackiness she has now. It drives me crazy. She is soooo mid- life crisis and no sense of self-awareness. I used to feel bad for Sergio but not so much anymore. His Oedipus complex aside, he’s a Yes man to a spoiled, jealous mean entitled woman who is not as pretty as she is well-kept. She cannot touch Ayan on fashion or anything at this point, and competing with her is embarrassing. Ayan is couture, Stanbury is off-the-rack. The desert scene is amazing, another endorsement deal for the 50 yr old influencer. Lolol. Ayan had on a beaded bodysuit, how is that a wedding dress at a Burning Man themed engagement party?!?!, ugh. Sara’s text showed who she really is, not so Zen if you don’t follow her. How she doesn’t understand what she should do is apologize and learn a kesson meams she isn’t so evolved and ego is tainting her “selflessness”. Brooks’ anger at (forgettable) Nina was misplaced. That was for Sara whose one of her many faces drops each week, metaphorically and literally. Love Lesa, her boys and especially Miss Goat, too cute.
P.S. Ayan is an established model, etc, I am sure designers are offering her clothes. She is a walking runway and never disappoints!!
Chanel Ayan is bringing me the most joy from any housewife at the moment and this show is THEE BEST. I know many of you all have problems with Dubai and their stance on women but the country is BEAUTIFUL…..JUST BEAUTIFUL. Dubai is actually the 7th housewife on this show and she doesn’t disappoint. As far as “advicegate”……Sarah was UBERwrong for that break the cycle advice or whatever she said to Brooks. She was criticizing how Brooks is rearing her child and also criticizing how her mother reared her in one judgmental and tone-deaf conversation. Tragic. HOWINSOEVER, Brooks needs to say what she needs to say to SARAH, leave everybody else out of it and keep it moving. The more she carries on and on about it, the more she seems like Sarah may have said something that struck a nerve. Also, she comes off as the stereotypical “angry Black woman” which is a trope that’s always hanging around ready to be used even if it’s not said that way. BTW…..I think Sarah could actually be on to something about Brooks parenting, but it’s not about her showing a lack of affection. FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN (and knowing we don’t know 10% of what really goes on in the ladies’ lives), it appears as if she wants him to go to boarding school for her own reasons and not necessarily because it’s best for him. She obviously didn’t listen or care when Stansbury (in a rare moment of authenticity), talked about boarding school a couple of times and said it made her cold and is the reason she isn’t close to her parents. Anyway, I enjoyed the episode, and I enjoy these ladies.
Brooks was on WWHL recently and said she was NOT sending her son to boarding school anymore. Also, some children love it, my dear friend did as did my cousin’s children. Every other episode we have seen Brooks with her son, she has beeen a doting mother even having a kind and sensitive conversation with him about being bullied in school so it’s really unfair to speak on her or anyone’s mothering. Something doesn’t have to strike a nerve for someone to find it reprehensible.
I actually thought Caroline Stansbury’s mother looked better than Caroline. I never liked Caroline and feel she’s showing us on Dubai who she always has been even on LOL. I too love Ayan. She is television gold.
Thanks for the recap TT. I love this show.
Stanbury set the dress code and is upset when Ayan understands the assignment!! Why is she saying wedding? It’s a party for someone who didn’t want to get married in the first place and you told everyone to wear white!
Sarah is a new Age “enlightened” one spreading unsolicited words of “wisdom” to all. I wish she would stop.
I love the show. Lesa and her family are so cute.
I agree Leesa’s boys are super cute, but I shouted NOE at the TV when Andy, on WWHL, suggested her husband is in the running for hottest husband! No, No, No, No, No, Never,Ever, Ever, Ever when there are the likes of Mauricia and Sergio!
Miss Goat looks like she is wearing black lipstick! I am in love with her adorable kissy lips.
As for the parenting squabble, I am 100% on Brook’s side. It is not out of line for a parent to correct table manners. This was the first time her friends from Boston were spending time with her son and no doubt she wanted him to make a good impression-which eating with fingers at the table does not do. Also asking her housekeeper to assist him to bed while she was entertaining was also OK in my book. Was she supposed to leave her guests to fend for themselves?
Sara has some “amnesia” regarding what exactly she said. She would have been asked to leave my home if she presumed to tell me I needed to be more affectionate with my child. She has no idea how the day went. Was he difficult all day? Sometimes when you are a mother-a single mother at that-you have not one ounce of patience left at the end of a long day. That long text is classic gaslighting in my book. Trying to twist facts around to make herself the innocent, misunderstood victim. Grrrr
Sara needs to rein in her overinflated ego.
I like this show I loved seeing the desert. Tonight the episode really gave me a clear picture of each women’s personality. Ayan is a rock star. Miss Goat is truly adorable
I wanted to hear from the LOL guests. Maybe we’ll get to later on.
If it was over 100°F at the party, why was no one perspiring? And I saw at least 1 man in a jacket. Was there outdoor air conditioning or something?
I know how stupid it sounds but it is a dry heat. And there is usually a breeze if it is anything like Libyan weather. I don’t ever remember being hot in Libya as a kid, and my mama was go outside and don’t come back til the street lights come on kind of mama. At least that is my recollection. I used to go everywhere on my bike alone. At least that is my recollection, my brother says that would never have happened. But he was in Switzerland or off to London to see Hair on a field trip or out with his boys when he was there. He wanted nothing to do with me and when he had friends over he would go to his room with them and close the door, and I remember putting a note under his door once that said, “You’re ugly.” I guess I was a bitch from a very young age. 🙂 He was actually the best big brother ever. I just wanted all of him when he was home. He’s ten years older than me, and our interactions are still kind of similar.
I knew Dubai would never work. I hoped it would but no one watched LOL either and I LOVED that show.
That’s interesting about the dry heat. I remember walking in Las Vegas one summer and it was really hot. But I did walk a couple of miles and was ok.
I really liked LOL, too. I liked seeing London as I’m enjoying seeing Dubai.