“The Real Housewives of Dubai” Season 2 is here the ladies are officially here to say that pickleball is out and padel is in. Lisa Milan and Chanel Ayan have met up to play a game of padel and the model has no idea what sport she’s playing.
She moves like a very uncoordinated giraffe but at least her outfit and hair look good.
After the game, Lesa tells Chanel that she wants to have a brunch. They talk about going to a Beyoncé event where they were not only V.I.P. guests but V.V.V.I.P. at the Atlantis Royal.
“Money could not buy you this ticket. Only the selected few people got invited,” Lesa tells the cameras. “Ahem, me.”
She and Chanel brag about partying up with Jay Z and Kendall Jenner. Enter Caroline Brooks’ confessional where she says, “Just because you’re like in the nosebleed section with Kendall Jenner, doesn’t mean you had the best tickets in the house, honey. I was so close to Beyoncé that as the wind blew, I could smell her freaking conditioner. You couldn’t get closer than me.”
Caroline Stanbury says in a confessional, “The VVIPs were another block away. I sat on the stage.” This is the “RHODubai” version of a pissing contest.
Caroline Stanbury still doesn’t want to have a baby
Caroline and her son husband Sergio Carallo are still in the process of building their house. They go visit with the hopes that it’s almost complete but get a “womp womp” when they see that there’s still much to do.
She reveals that she underwent IVF and they currently have a male embryo but she’s not in any hurry to have a baby. She is almost 50 after all and wants to retire her uterus. Unfortunately, Sergio wants to be a daddy. However, it’s not going to happen when they’re living at Caroline’s friend’s house while their house is being renovated.
Tiki tiki is going to have to wait, Sergio.
Sara Al Madani is trying to heal
Sara Al Madani has been through some sh*t and she’s using a spiritual healer to get over her exes. One has been abusive and another cheated on her. She wants to get better for the sake of her son.
“I see a lot of changes. I’m calmer,” she tells the healer. “The only area I have in my reservation is when it comes to relationships. I want to settle down and have a family but I had two bad marriages.”
“My son craves having a father figure in his life but this time around, it has to be the right man,” Sara tells the cameras. “I cannot afford mistakes.”
The healer tells her to visualize all the negative emotions and release them. Sara screams into a pillow while he beats on a drum and waves a stick.
He tells her, “Good job.” She says, “I feel nothing but light. I feel good.”
Caroline Stanbury and Chanel Ayan meet up for lunch
Stanbury and Chanel have never gotten along during “RHODubai” Season 1 so it’s surprising that they’re meeting up. Chanel has brought a pineapple as a gift to represent how Stanbury is prickly on the outside and sweet on the inside. As a British woman, Stanbury takes it as a compliment.
Chanel brags that she partied with Beyoncé’s mom during the private concert and Stanbury gives her the win.
They bond over their kids going off to college soon and worry about how they’d fend for themselves in America.
Chanel tells Stanbury that she’s been upset lately. She says that since she opened up about her female genital mutilation story last season, she got attacked by her native people.
She reveals in a confessional that she never intended to talk about her trauma but Sara convinced her to. Then, Sara went to the media and used her story to blame her for acting like a victim.
“It made me go back into a cocoon. Like, shut the f*ck up,” Chanel says to Stanbury, who tells her to do the opposite. “I would go loud.” Stanbury is shocked Sara would go that route and takes Chanel’s side in this.
Taleen Marie has entered the building
There’s a new “RHODubai” lady in the cast and it’s Taleen Marie. She’s Brooks’ friend of over 10 years and explains that when she moved to Dubai with her husband from Los Angeles, she knew no one. Brooks became her first friend and they became besties as fellow Americans.
Over coffee, Brooks tells Taleen that when Stanbury met her briefly, she mentioned how she fell over with her legs up in the air. Apparently, the British party differently from the Americans.
“She was like, ‘Oh, is that how she has fun?'” Brooks says. “I don’t like that. I don’t like that she said that,” Taleen says.
Brooks has gotten close with Stanbury but thinks it was absolutely judgy and will stick up for Taleen over the Brit. “I’m going to have Taleen’s back no matter what,” she tells the cameras.
When a good brunch goes bad
The “Real Housewives” love to throw a brunch and they never go well but Lesa shoots her shot. She and Stanbury kind of reach a truce despite a contentious Season 1 so things seem hopeful.
Then Chanel throws out that she and Brooks had VVIP tickets to Beyoncé. She tells Taleen, “I heard you fell down and our ass was out and the vagina.” Girl, that’s not bonding conversation.
“Sergio saw your vagina. He loved it,” Stanbury says. Taleen is unbothered and responds, “I’m glad I waxed that day. I love it.”
The one who’s tipsy at this brunch, however, is Brooks who starts slurring and gets up to to use the restroom. “I’ve never seen her like this. Why is she so, like, she’s like 100?” Stanbury asks.
Sara tells the group that she’s been seeing a spiritual healer and has gotten Brooks to see him as well. Chanel gets upset and tells Sara that she opened up to her about experiencing female genital mutilation and got called a victim by her.
Sara denies calling Chanel a victim and claims she meant she shouldn’t use her story to be mean to others. They start yelling at each other until Stanbury stops them like she’s their mom and they’re her children. She tells them to go off and talk on her own so that she can eat her carbs in peace.
Chanel is upset that Sara talked about her trauma, while Sara is hurt that Chanel apparently said she doesn’t own any companies and that she’s broke.
They keep bickering and nothing gets resolved. Taleen wants a round of shots and Stanbury is all for it just to drown out the sounds of Millennials arguing.
