DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The
Real Housewives reality television franchise
is landing in Dubai, to mixed reactions among residents of the emirate long
known as a playground for the rich.
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Six women, only
one of whom is
Emirati, star in Bravo TV’s “The Real Housewives of Dubai”,
which premieres on Wednesday, amid criticism that the show does not reflect the
reality on the ground in the emirate.
Much like the
Real Housewives series filmed in Beverly Hills, Atlanta and New Jersey, the show
will follow the lives of affluent women in Dubai, offering an inside look into
their glamorous — and often dramatic — world.
A three-minute
trailer reveals that themes like sex, money and fashion will continue on in the
series’ new iteration in Dubai, where foreigners make up the vast majority of
the approximately three-million-strong population.
And while the
franchise has had a number of spinoffs outside the US, “The Real Housewives of
Dubai” will be Bravo’s first original production in a non-US city.
Executive producer
Andy Cohen vowed that the show would bring “conversations that we haven’t heard
before in the Housewives universe”, according to a Bravo TV statement earlier
this month.
“The rules of
Dubai are different than the rules of Beverly Hills or
Salt Lake City, and you’re
gonna be fascinated to hear how people live there,” he continued.
“There are goats,
there are fashion shoots in the desert, there’s plenty of shade, and there’s a
lot of money.”
While many have
welcomed the new series, others in the emirate — where the majority of the
native population is Muslim — took to social media to express their discontent.
“The housewives of
my country are our mothers, our sisters, our daughters. They are the backbone
in helping giving our children the proper upbringing,” tweeted Emirati social
media influencer Majid Alamry.
“Yes, we are a
tolerant country, but that does not mean that others can walk all over our
morals and values. And that series does not represent the real housewives of
Dubai.”
The wealthy UAE —
made up of seven emirates including Dubai — has undertaken ambitious steps to
boost its position as a trade, entertainment and tourism hub and to diversify
its economy away from oil.
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