- Previously, on "The Real Housewives of Dubai"...
Stanbury said, "Sergio, I'm mad at you
"because you're with them."
- Don't engage with people like that.
- Yeah.
- We're talking about a 50-year-old influencer here.
[laughing]
[goat bleating]
- I wanted to ask you how the situation is
with that kid being mean to you.
- But it's the end of the world to me
if there are kids being mean to you.
- We had a massive row tonight
because he wanted me to sit with his parents
and my parents,
and I'm not gonna sit with my parents both nights.
- He wants you to be with the family.
- That's traditional. - But so is getting married.
- I didn't want to get married.
- My dad said all the problems in his marriage
started when I was coming in.
He beat me so bad.
I don't wanna cry, but, honestly...
- Stanbury! - Stanbury.
And where is your Ski Dubai outfit?
- I came as I was. I don't want to.
I came in my own things.
- Yeah. Well, I came in my own things, too.
- So, wear your things.
No one is telling you to change.
- I'm already dressed. - I'm good.
- They don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
They hate me because they are basic.
- A woman should be two things,
who and what she wants.
- The desert is ruthless,
but nothing is more savage than me.
- The only thing you can take from me are notes.
- If you think money can't buy you happiness,
you clearly haven't been to Dubai.
- In the city of gold,
nothing shines brighter than me.
**
* I can take you to a place you ain't probably been *
* I guess we're about to see *
* I know you feel me yeah *
**
- Look at this pink couch.
- It's really cute. I like it.
- Ooh, and they have the outdoor furniture.
We need some of that.
Oh, my God, it's so much more gorgeous in person.
Adam, let's test this couch out.
- Wow, it feels comfy.
- Oh, my God, Ayan, thank you so much for coming.
You're gonna be my motivation to put a little bit of color
into my life.
- Doll, first of all, why are you changing your house?
It's, like, brand-new. Three months ago, I was there.
You literally did your whole house.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- But we want a little bit of a change.
- Hey, Caroline.
- Hi, Kelly. - Hi. How are you?
- Nice to see you, again. - Nice to see you, too.
Welcome to Aura. - Thank you so much.
That's my son, Adam.
- Hi. - Hey, Adam, how are you?
- And that's my friend, Chanel.
- Hi. I'm Chanel. Very nice to meet you.
- That's Kelly. - Hi, Chanel. Nice to meet you.
- Have a seat. What do you think about this piece?
- So, I love this. - This is, like, a really happy color.
- I thought you might like this.
- And we need happy. Yes. Oh, really?
Did you pull this one for me? - Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- Yay, this is good. - It's got clean lines.
- What do you think, Adam? - It's very comfy.
- Good. I got the stamp of approval.
- Great. Do you wanna have a look around?
- Yes.
- And then see what you guys think.
- Thank you, Kelly.
I can't even remember what life was like before my child.
He is my world.
I can't even describe what being a mother feels like.
It is everything.
I've always wanted, like, a natural wood table,
but I'm too scared 'cause it's not really my vibe.
- We gotta take baby steps.
The pink couch is good enough for now.
Let's keep my chairs white.
- Oh, I need stuff like this. - For serving dishes, right?
- Yeah. Like, husband, go get me coffee.
- I send the child. - Adam, find the coffee for mommy.
- Adam, get me a double espresso macchiato.
- Yeah. [laughing]
- No matter what age he becomes,
I think he's always gonna be my baby.
I brought a life to this world, and the way he loves me,
the way he relies on me for everything,
there's nothing more I would ever ask for in the world
than to be Adam's mom.
Do you wanna go have a look around?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- You know my style, so make sure I love it.
- Go big. Take everything.
- Your opinion really matters today,
not that it doesn't ever matter.
My parenting style is mirrored to exactly
how my mother raised me
because I'm very happy with the way I was raised
and who I am today as a person.
[laughing]
My tits are gonna fall out.
- That's good. You paid for them.
Let them fall out. - Bitch.
Even though I give Adam the world,
I'm still very firm with him, and I stand my ground.
You know, I'm kind of militant.
So, what are you doing this weekend?
- Doing laundry, the usual ----ing stuff.
Why? Do you have something for me?
- Yes. I'm having, like, a little pool day,
nothing too huge. - Ooh, love that.
- And I have my two childhood best friends visiting
from Boston, right now. I want you guys to meet them.
- I would love that. - And we're gonna do
a little Cove Beach, uh, chill.
- I love Cove Beach.
- You don't need to come with gloves.
- Oh, honey, I never go into the water.
My hair is expensive. My creams are expensive.
[laughing] I'll just be sitting cute
with my lashes on there. - You don't need to go in the water
but just come in, like, beach attire.
- No, I'm just gonna come the way I was born,
with nothing.
- Oh, my God, don't do that.
Don't come in your birthday suit.
Ayan is very, very annoying. We fight every single day.
We have dinner tonight, and we fought this morning.
By the end of dinner,
I'm gonna wanna rip her head off.
By the morning, we'll make up,
and we'll make dinner plans again tomorrow.
We're sisters for life.
- You know, you could do also the pink bed.
- Oh, God, no, it's not me.
Isn't it crazy we only have one boy?
- But you have a chance to have more, though?
Don't be like me. You see, I had one,
and now my whole mind is set to him.
- But that's how my mind is. - You're so young.
You have to time. - Let's see.
If I get married again, it's possible.
- Now, we just need to find you a husband.
- I-- well, not so fast, honey.
I wanna have a little bit of fun first.
Don't put me in prison, immediately.
I need to go find my kid.
I think he went down. We have to go find him.
- You just have to say, "Adam!"
- Where is my little Adam?
**
- It's so good to be back. - Oh, my God.
- And have our family.
Welcome to our humble abode.
[laughing] Isn't this spectacular?
- This the best you can do?
- Beautiful, eh? - Wow. Really beautiful.
- It's wonderful. - It's fantastic, isn't it?
Isn't it amazing? - Wow.
- Hello, Sonny.
- Hi, Miss Caroline. - Good to be back.
We requested to have you, again.
[laughing] - Thank you so much.
Welcome back. Here's your champagne.
- Are you ready to see this? - Wow.
- Look at this. - Wow, wow, wow.
- Isn't it amazing?
- I'm the global ambassador for Raffles.
This is the sitting room. Ooh, champagne for us.
Oh, my God, they gave us a Christmas tree.
- Oh, my God, look at these.
- As an ambassador for a hotel,
your job is to obviously post about the hotel,
show all the amenities,
show how amazing the inside of the hotel is.
It's like a dream job.
- Look at this view.
- Oh, my goodness, isn't that incredible?
- That's where the wedding is gonna be.
- Very exciting.
- My family have all arrived, and, suddenly,
sh-- just got real. I'm getting remarried.
It's happening, and it's happening now.
We've got four bedrooms with all of us.
- It's perfect, isn't it? Absolutely perfect.
- Yeah. - Fabulous, fabulous.
- Beautiful, eh? - We've got our own spa.
- Oh, yes, now I'd love to see that.
- So, this is the main reception room.
So, if you order a massage,
they come here to collect you,
and you can have your massage here instead of leaving.
- Wonderful. - And then...
you have an actual hammam and a steam room.
- It's amazing. It really is incredible.
- Yeah, magnificent. - Staggering. It's staggering.
- Mm-hmm. Where are we going? One?
- We can drop them off.
Since I moved to Dubai,
I've probably seen my parents once a year.
I'm much better with my mom now.
[ birds chirping ]
Mmm.
Um... we have this very grown-up relationship
where we just talk about the odd thing,
but she doesn't wanna talk about feelings.
She doesn't wanna go there.
My dad and I have a really nice relationship,
but I'm not that cuddly with anyone,
which is why it's so funny I chose someone like Sergio,
who literally wants to cuddle me to death.
So, why don't you unpack? And we'll go up to our room.
- Perfect.
- And then we'll convene down here in a bit.
- Okay. - See you later.
- Lovely. Bye-bye. - Bye. - Bye.
- Okay, yay. - Oh, I'm so excited, honey.
- Let's just get some of this unpacked.
- Oh, my God.
- And then we can see some of our guests.
- Are you actually gonna unpack?
- Some of it. Where are the rings?
- Oh, wait, wait, wait. Where are the rings?
They're in the car.
- Put them in the safe, for God's sake.
- Oh, wait, wait, wait.
- Oh, my God, don't lose those, Sergio, seriously.
- Yeah, I know. - One job.
Wedding night underwear.
[laughing] - Can I see?
- No. - Why?
- Just put it over there, though.
- It's a surprise. - Mm-hmm.
**
- I can't be bothered to unpack much more.
- No? Okay.
- No.
- Don't look at me like that, honey.
- Absolutely not.
Our parents are in the house, Sergio.
- Baby, have you seen the-the size of this place?
[laughing] They will not even, like,
hear anything. We have to do that.
It's a tradition previous to wedding.
- It's not the night before.
[laughing]
- Sergio is 27. He needs a lot of sex.
He wakes up with... - Tiki-tiki.
- On his mind. He goes to sleep with...
- Tiki-tiki. - On his mind.
He goes to lunch with... - Tiki-tiki.
- On this mind.
So, let me just put it this way.
The flagpole is never at half-mast.
- We cannot go through life like this.
- Yes, we can. - No.
- Yes. - 'Cause I will die.
[laughing]
- Coming up next...
- I felt attacked by you and maybe--
- Attacked? - I felt it was aggressive.
- What you said was trashy.
**
[elevator dings]
**
Hello, hello.
Oh, I love the lavender. - Hello.
**
- Today was the last day of school for the kids.
- Same.
- They've just been super hyper today,
and I just need to them to, like, be Zen.
- Unless they're asleep, they're never Zen.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.
- Oh, here's Caroline. Hello.
- Hi, girls.
- There's a lot of tension between
Caroline Stanbury and Lesa,
and I thought let me do something very nice,
relaxing, and chill,
so I invited everyone over for high tea
'cause I'm tired of these bitches fighting.
No, I'm just kidding. [laughing]
- Frankly, I don't really know what I'm walking into
because, with Lesa, you never know
what you're gonna get.
- I'm, like, blowing away, my hair, everything.
How are you?
- There's no tension between me and Caroline Stanbury.
I give energy to the people and the things in my life
that are important.
Take it how you want it.
- Thank you for coming. - I wanted to.
- Honestly, thank you. You look good. So...
- Oh, so do you.
- I'm just-- I'm hungry. - I'm so hungry.
- Oh, my goodness me, look at you.
- Feathers in the wind. - Look at your feathers.
- I know. - I think it's a theme now.
- Hello. - Hello.
- Good evening. How are you? - Ladies, what would you like?
- I'll have a glass of sauvignon blanc.
- I will have exact same. - And for you, ma'am?
- I'm gonna have chamomile tea, believe it or not.
- A cappuccino with almond milk.
- Cappuccino with almond milk.
- Can we order a nice selection?
You know, the special, whatever I usually have.
Just bring them all out. - Thank you.
- How is the seating arrangement for the wedding?
I, sorry, I hope I didn't offend you last night
when I was siding with Sergio. - No.
What I do in an argument, is I go around
and ask as many people as I can
until I find somebody that sides with me.
- 'Cause I could see he was a little bit
emotional about it.
- About what? - Tell us what happened.
- Sergio wants her to sit with the family
at the table. I do, too.
- The wedding I agree.
I don't wanna do it both nights, the engagement and the wedding.
- Yeah.
- I felt like when I got married the first time,
the wedding was about everybody else except us.
So, why am I making myself uncomfortable again
when it's my day? - Yeah.
- The biggest row we've had, is who is gonna sit with who
for the engagement party.
We have talked about it, and Sergio and I have decided
that if he wanted to sit with his parents,
he's welcome to sit with his parents,
but I, come hell or high water,
was gonna sit my friends. - My wedding was, like,
I was supposed to marry my cousin.
- You were supposed to be-- I'm sorry.
I just missed that. [laughing]
- Yeah, yeah, that one went over your head.
- I was supposed to marry my cousin.
- Thank God that didn't happen.
- It's very normal in my culture.
- Okay.
- But then when I met my husband,
we got married in Brazil.
We did, like, a small wedding, which was just, like,
my brother giving me away to, like, a sheikh,
which is like a pastor to you guys,
and my husband was like, "Say, 'yes.'"
I'm like, "Yes." Sign me up.
You're married. That was my wedding.
- Excuse me. May I? - Yes, please. Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Can we get some more, uh, of the vegetarian options
and then two orders of fries? - Ooh.
- 'Cause I'm not letting you share my fries.
- Nina, at your party-- - Yes, my love, uh-huh.
- Thank you. - It's all--
yeah, it's all good that we are here, actually.
But, Nina, at your party, Caroline,
I was listening to Lesa saying just because we are friends,
right, you cannot group us together
because she doesn't tell me who to talk to,
and I don't tell her who to talk to.
- I get that.
First of all, I think I felt attacked by you
and maybe-- - Attacked?
- That's how I felt but maybe I had drunk too much.
So, maybe I misread into all of it.
I don't know. - Well, I didn't--
I don't feel like I attacked you,
and I feel like that's the wrong word to use.
- No. - I felt it was aggressive.
- Well, I felt like what you said was trashy.
- My husband has become one of them.
I don't even remember that.
- I mean, I'm a married woman. How dare you?
- Okay, if I said it, it would have been sarcastic.
- Well, of course, it was sarcastic,
but I'm not gonna ask you if you wanna suck my husband's.
- I had not eaten that day at all.
- Okay.
- So, maybe I misread into all of it.
I don't know. I was already defensive.
- Yeah.
- And had drunk too much on the way,
and I made, obviously, an inappropriate statement,
but, you know, I do have a naughty mouth.
- Have a fry.
- I'm sorry for that.
Where is the line with Lesa?
I'm not really sure what eggshell to walk on.
She wants everyone to jump on the bandwagon and go,
"Oh, Caroline, you're just-- you're terrible.
Who says things like this?"
You know, it was my British bathroom sarcastic humor.
- I don't have an issue with you.
I've always liked you despite everything
that I've heard and people-- - And that's true.
She's even told me that.
- But that's also passive aggressive.
What does that mean?
Everything I've heard about you?
- Well, I've heard a lot of things.
A lot of people have told me to be careful of you,
but I'm happy to move forward.
I accept your apology and put all of this behind me.
- Okay, thank you.
- From now on, no inappropriate words.
- Life without inappropriate things
is very ----ing boring.
- We have to be inappropriate sometimes.
- Sometimes.
- I probably thought I was really funny.
- Well, you know what?
It-it probably would have landed differently
had we not been going at each other.
- If you guys were getting along.
Oh, this is very high tea, right?
Did you think we did well? You're English.
- Yeah, you guy-guys look very summer high tea.
- Yeah?
- Like, you could go to the Ritz like this.
- Well, I knew were outside,
so I thought we were gonna be in the sun.
- Yeah, you look like you're going to the beach.
- Yeah.
- They're going to high tea, and I'm going to a nightclub.
[laughing]
- Cheers to that. - Yeah, okay.
So, let's have some fun. - Cheers to that.
- Let's have some fun. - That's a good one.
Let's have fun now. - Let's have some fun.
[screaming] - Sh--.
- When glass breaks, it's good luck.
- It's seven years of good sex. Who dropped it?
- The hat. - The hat did.
- Oh, the hat is not gonna get seven years of sex, Nina.
- That means I am.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Coming up next...
- You can't be perfect. That's okay.
- Yeah, I don't wanna be perfect.
- It's never too late to become someone like me.
I was not born like this.
**
* Ah oh watch me put on a show *
* they're saying hate to see ya leave *
* but I love to watch you go *
- You're cooking?
- Yeah, I'm making you lunch.
Taste. It's good.
[laughing]
- Can you get me water?
**
- Good morning.
Shower. Brush your teeth.
- Good job. Slow it down a bit.
- Max, be careful.
- Come jump with me!
Sophia.
* You gotta hold it all together now *
**
- Welcome. - God, you look gorgeous.
- Oh, you, too. How are you?
- Good. It's an honor to be always with you guys.
- We love having you, always.
- Of course, you do. You do.
How is everything? - Good.
- How is preparations? - Perfect.
- Good. - Everything is going well.
Looking forward to the, uh, gala this evening, of course.
- I can't wait.
The Global Citizen Forum is so close to my heart
because it has a united message
to make the world a better place.
I've been an ambassador for the forum,
and this is my second year speaking at the forum,
and, this year, I was chosen as a host
for the whole event.
- Set up is different this year, but, uh, we tried to
make it different, yeah? - Yeah.
It is such an honor for me to be here
because if God gave me a voice,
and I'm influencing in a positive way,
then I'm living my purpose.
If it was up to me, I would be in PJs,
but I gotta represent.
So, my-my friend is also coming, and she might need touch ups
for makeup and hair, too.
You guys are okay, right?
Will you-- will you do it for her?
- Of course, babe.
- No, it's perfect.
[knocking]
Oh, girl! [laughing]
- I came. [speaking Arabic]
You know, a bit Muslim here, and little bit here.
Hair in the back, you know? - She has to surprise me.
- Hi, girls. - Babe, I'm dying.
So, tell me. How's things with you?
- Oh, my God, things are really good.
- Yeah.
- Brooks was saying she had a therapist.
Someone else said that they've gone to it.
So, I'm like, why not?
Let me try this for the first time
in my life, right? - Yeah.
- 'Cause my head wasn't in the right place.
- Got it.
- So, I called this guy, but, before that,
I had two glasses of wine, okay, before that.
So, I'm drinking, and then I call him,
and he's like, "Oh, so, tell me about yourself."
All I took from it is, like,
you need to imagine you have a garden.
So, you need to water your plants.
I'm like, where the hell am I gonna water plants
in Jumeirah?
You know, I live in an apartment,
but I have three fake plants.
So, every morning, I wake up.
- You fake water them.
- I fake water the sh-- out of it.
Good morning, my love.
I know you don't feel the water,
but my psychologist told me to water you
because it's gonna bring me happiness.
Glow, glow.
- What kind of therapy were you doing?
- Girl, I think my therapist is from L.A. I am sure.
- So, he's, like, building a state of mind for you.
- And it's working.
- Which is amazing but I still think that hypnotherapy
will change your life because you need to go back
to your childhood.
- Right now, I'm open to trying anything.
- I love it.
I know that it's not normalized in our culture.
I love that you opened up to therapy
because I know it takes a lot of strength.
I've done every time of therapy, hypnotherapy,
normal therapy, radiotherapy.
Like, you can just name it.
I've done everything,
and I'm so glad I did it because out of all the pains
that I went through in my life, I came out better,
not bitter.
- Me personally, I'm a very happy person.
I only have one thing that bothers me in life.
It's just how to navigate and understand my dad.
- You can't be perfect.
That's okay. - Yeah, I cannot.
I don't wanna be perfect. - That's okay.
- I am a very kind, caring, loving human being,
10% not so much.
- It's never too late to become someone like me.
I was not born like this.
- What?
- Look at it from this perspective, okay?
Why don't you be a person that has an energy
that people crave?
So, when you are there,
they're getting high on your energy.
It's a mindset.
If you tell your brain every single day, I am this,
you will become this.
- What is wrong with you, Sara?
You're just on another level.
I think you remind me more of, like, Jesus.
- It's called kindness.
- I am very impressed to see Sara being honored
because it's a very good thing
when you see another woman doing great,
but the preaching has to stop, honey.
It is too much.
Not me. - Can I tattoo you?
- Yes, please.
- What should I write for you? - Whatever you want.
- Officially, your first tattoo.
Kind. - Kind.
This is literally in my bloodstream.
I am kind. - I'm gonna go get dressed.
- Yes. - Actually, come help me.
- Okay, I'll come help you. - I need to put a corset on.
I need help. - I'll come help zip you,
you know.
**
- This goes in.
**
- Wow, so pretty.
This is gonna be a good, fun party tonight.
- Next, I'd like to introduce to you her excellency,
Sara Al Madani.
[applause]
- Good evening, everyone.
Thank you so much for joining us tonight
at the Global Citizen Forum.
Thank you for believing in every step they take.
We are here, crazy enough, to change the world.
Let us force us to be more compassionate,
more kind, more loving,
and I want you all to take a pledge with me today.
So, if I can have everyone stand up.
Put our right hand up,
and I want you all to repeat after me.
I promise to be a better person.
- all: I promise to be a better person.
- I promise to serve humanity.
- all: I promise to serve humanity.
- I am a global citizen.
- all: I am a global citizen.
- Thank you so much.
[applause]
- Coming up next...
- I have a lot going on. - I'm sorry.
- I have so much pressure from my family
because I have to take care of everything.
**
- Wow.
Caroline always knows how to throw a good party.
- So, I have a bunch of my friends coming.
I feel like everyone is gonna be late, though.
They're late for everything.
Everybody is on Dubai time.
- You can't have anyone late to your party.
- Okay, so, I've made specialty drinks.
- Thank God. - Cheers, you guys.
- Cheers. - To reuniting in Dubai.
- Brian and Adam are my family.
From the day that we met, we just automatically clicked.
Brian is my, like, everything.
When my ex-husband couldn't be there for my delivery
of my child, Brian was there.
Brian cut the umbilical cord.
**
- Get the whole story. - Nina, hi.
- How are you? - Hello.
- Hi, Nina. - How are you?
- Thank you for coming. - Thank you for having me.
Hi. - Hi. I'm Brian.
- This is Brian. - Nice to meet you.
- Brian, nice to meet you. - That's Nina. That's Adam.
- Adam. Nice to meet you. - Adam, nice to meet you.
- These are my friends from Boston.
- I need to relax. - Can I offer you a drink?
- Uh, do they have pina coladas here?
- Yeah, I'm sure hey do.
Excuse me!
Nina is gonna have a pina colada, if you have.
- Nice and thick, please. I like it thick.
- Who doesn't? - No.
**
- Hello, gorgeous.
Oh, my God, you came swimsuit ready.
Are you getting inside the pool?
- Yeah. I'm not.
Hi. How are you? - How are you?
- This is Lesa. This is Brian.
- Hi. I'm Brian. - That's Adam.
That's Brian. - Brian. Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- These are my friends from Boston.
- Are you guys related? - Brothers.
- Yeah, we're brothers. - Oh, okay.
[laughing] - I was gonna say.
- You can't see the resemblance?
-I can.
- People think you guys are husbands.
- Yeah, it's weird.
- Brian and Adam have always been nervous to come to Dubai
because of what they've heard in regards to the rules
of being gay.
- Ninety-five percent of my friends are queer.
- There are plenty of gay people here.
Maybe it's not like New York where they go around
holding hands and kissing everywhere.
We don't have that.
- Most of the misconceptions that they heard
are not exactly true.
- The best thing about Dubai, we move forward.
We are in 2022, honey.
- Hello, blonde ambition. You came so beachy.
- Yeah, look at us.
- What the hell is going on, Lesa?
We just match all the time. - We always match.
- Valentina?
You look amazing.
I love the whole Dior everything.
Oh, my God, hi, guys. - You look gorgeous.
Look at you. You look like a mermaid.
- Thank you. - How are you?
- Sergio, hi, darling. - Hi, Caroline. I'm Brian.
Nice to meet you. - Hi. Nice to meet you.
Hi. - That's Adam.
- Adam. Nice to meet you. - Hi. Nice to meet you.
- Yeah. How was it?
- So, she was talking about how you can be happy
without looking for happiness, as well.
- Like, happiness is a choice.
- Yes, something like that. - Okay.
- So, she was preaching so much kindness
that I felt she was trying to make me
feel like I need to be kind.
- As if she's implying that you are not kind?
- Yeah. I don't know why.
I felt like she was being very Jesus.
- But if she's being Jesus, then she loves everybody.
You mean she's being judgmental.
- I felt that a little bit. Yeah.
- Okay, so, not Jesus.
- I think she's a new philanthropist
because philanthropists are people that give money to poor,
help children.
- It's just people who are helpful and giving.
- She's a new philanthropist.
- But you don't think it's real or genuine.
- Girl, let me sip.
[laughing]
- Cheers.
- It's too early to drink
even though I've had a sh---y night.
- Why did you have a sh---y night?
- My dad is in the hospital.
He's been battling COVID for about, like, six days now,
and I'm all the way on the other side of the world.
What can I do?
I mean, I'm on the phone all night with him.
- How many days has he been in the hospital?
- Uh, they checked him in yesterday.
I've never traveled anywhere without my children.
The thought of having to leave them if, God forbid,
things do get worse, but then to travel with my kids
and then put them at risk with everything going on with COVID,
it's times like this that it's just I hate living
so far from my family.
It just is so hard.
- He had a really bad case of COVID.
Munaf literally had to learn how to walk again.
(BLEEP) COVID.
This feels nice to just get away.
- I know. - So, I need to put my glasses on
in case I get emotional. - No, you need to--
- We thought it was over.
That's why we planned to the end of the year.
We lost the main singer in the wedding.
- Because of COVID.
- Once he was gonna walk down the aisle, he was gonna sing.
She was crying the whole day yesterday.
It was, oh, it was so sad.
- Hey!
- Oh, those are my friends.
William!
That's my best friend!
I miss you.
You just came back from London.
I missed you.
My baby!
- Hi. - Ayan, who are your friends?
They're so hot! - I only do hot people, honey.
- Bring them over!
They're so cute. Who the (BLEEP) are they?
- So, what's happening here?
Is this just, like-- - Oh, so, this is a pool party.
- It's Caroline Brooks' pool party.
- Which one is she?
- The one dressed like a mermaid.
- Oh, right.
- Guys, let's go over to the bar.
It's hot for everybody. - It is hot.
I'm, like, melting. - We wanna be shaded, right?
Chanel and Lesa! - Yes?
- Um, hello, can I meet your friends?
- We're telling them all about you.
- Welcome to my pool party!
- The mermaid is walking in.
- If she doesn't play nice, I'm pushing her in the water.
Let's see if she can really swim.
[laughing]
- This is my best friend, William.
- Hi. - How are you?
- Hi.
[phone vibrating]
- You guys, Sara is calling me.
Sara?
Hi, gorgeous!
[speaking foreign language]
- Good. Where are you?
- We wish you were here, but it's okay.
I understand. I know you are busy.
We'll celebrate without you for today.
- We'll have fun for you.
- We'll have fun for you, right, Lesa?
- Yes, we'll have fun for you.
[laughing]
- We love you. - Bye.
- She's so cute. I love her.
- She is.
- Yeah, she's all about spreading kindness and love.
- Honestly, she's the kindest person ever.
You haven't met her, but I hope you get to meet her
before you guys leave. - Yeah, you'll love her.
- In you get.
- I love it. It's a pool party.
I'm the only one in the pool.
[laughing]
- Can we go over and see what Sergio is doing in the pool?
Sergio, whoo!
Caroline you did well, baby.
- I know.
I've figured out I'm the oldest woman in this group,
with the youngest husband.
- Sergio, I expect you to be on your flamingo
when I arrive!
- Oh, God, here she comes.
- Sergio! Oh, bumpy, yes.
- I'm loaning him to you today.
- Get in the fire! [laughing]
- I had fun at your children's birthday party.
Beautiful place. - Thank you.
- So nice, so nice. - Very-- I had so much fun.
I was jumping up and down with Sara and Brooks.
- You were like a Big Bird in the cage.
- What does that mean?
Let me see what Big Bird is.
Seriously, this yellow thing?
To be honest, I'm black. I will look great in yellow.
The way I look will never be one of those characters.
I look very glamorous, very couture, very fabulous.
- It's funny. It's funny. - In your birthday party
of your kids, I might come with a thong.
[phone dings]
- My child is telling me that he's starving to death
and that he hates me as a mother.
He said, "I'm starving! I wanna live with my dad."
- You should send him to my boys.
- He's the same age as them. - Yes.
- Are they at boarding school?
- No, they're here. They're at her house.
- I wish they were in school.
- Adam is going to boarding school in two years
in Switzerland, and everybody is judging me for it
'cause I only have one kid,
but, like, I had him on that waiting list
since he was four.
We couldn't decide if he was gonna go
from ten years old or eleven years old.
He's going at 11.
- He wants to go? - I haven't told him.
- Oh, wow, I'm traumatized from boarding school.
- Caroline, ahh.
- It's like overnight camp.
- Okay, well, yeah.
Clearly, Brooks never went to boarding school,
and the trouble with people who are newly rich,
they do what they think is the best thing
that money can buy.
My whole way is from boarding school.
I went from six to eighteen.
- You're traumatized from it? - Totally.
Boarding school changes your complete life.
You build such a wall getting through that.
When you come home, you're so angry.
You kind of hate your parents.
But who am I to tell someone how to parent their child?
- I mean, he doesn't see much of me anyway.
- I mean, he's a boy, so he's tough.
- He'll be okay.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- In a way, you just need to, like, prepare him.
- You look like a mermaid. - Yes.
- Or does Brooks look like a mermaid?
- You win. [laughing]
In everything. - Thank you.
This is what I love.
I love when we're laughing, joking.
- Yeah, because after we were, like, getting so close,
the three of us, when my issue happened with Stanbury,
I felt like you were not there for me.
- How was I not?
- Nina, if you were not invited, as me,
how would you have felt?
You'll be like, "I wouldn't care."
- But I didn't say that.
Let it go.
I can stand by you.
I can see where you're coming from,
but I cannot accommodate your feelings
each and every time.
- I would love for you to tell me
what I've done wrong, so I can apologize.
I feel like there's an energy we should squash.
- Listen, my energy today is because my father
is in the hospital. - Okay.
- So, it has nothing to do with you.
- I'm sorry.
- Sometimes I-- - Don't, Nina.
- No, no, I don't wanna talk about it.
- No, no, no.
- Oh, my God, she's crying.
- Oh, wow.
Sergio, eavesdrop. Find out what's going on.
- Stick up for Nina.
- I didn't know about your dad,
and I really wanna apologize from the bottom of my heart.
I get it because I'm-I'm going through the exact same thing.
- We love each other. - I have a lot going on.
- I'm sorry.
- I have so much pressure from my family.
- I'm sorry. - We love you, Nina.
- Because I have to take care of everything.
- I have a very soft spot when it comes to families.
- Don't worry, Nina. We love you so much.
Your dad is gonna be okay. - Nina, I love you.
And no matter what me and Nina are going through,
in that moment, I'm there for my friend.
- I'm sorry, guys.
- It's okay to not always be strong, Nina.
- No, no, no, no.
- I try my best to be strong for everyone
but-- - Are you guys okay?
- Yeah, all the girls were talking about your body
a minute ago. - Bring-bring--
okay, we'll change the topic because Sergio is here.
- Are you okay, Nina?
Oh, don't cry, please. - --Sense to me.
- No, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.
- I don't wanna make you cry, Nina.
- I never cry. - I cry all the time.
- I cry-I cry all the time. - "I cry," he said.
- I've heard, Sergio. [laughing]
- Coming up next...
- I don't know anything about Adam, right?
- No, no, no, you don't.
- You need to be closer to him.
**
- Hello.
Hi, papi.
How are you? - Hi, darling.
- Hi, papi.
- Shame mom couldn't come.
- Well, she's got jetlag.
- Fair enough.
- By the way, nobody warned me
that I had to walk down an aisle with you
or that I had to make a speech.
- Well, you don't have to make a speech, like, very long.
- I don't make long speeches.
- No.
- And you're making a speech, my darling, I gather.
- Her speeches are always the best.
- I have to finish it. I've not finished it.
- I haven't even written mine.
I'm just gonna go, "You're all welcome."
- Thanks for coming. Eat cake.
- Yeah. - See you at the next one.
No, I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking.
I'm joking. [laughing]
- Hello. - Welcome to Clap.
My name is Maria. - Thank you.
- And please, our food menus.
- I'd love a margarita.
- Oh, could I have sparkling water?
- Sparkling water, absolutely, sure.
- Do you want water, darling? - Yeah.
- Are you ready to order the food?
- We'll definitely start with some edamame.
- And some miso soup.
- Thank you so much.
Please enjoy your dinner. - Thank you.
Well, I'm excited. You're gonna meet the in-laws.
How do you think that is gonna go?
- Perfectly. I'm a very amenable man.
- My parents, they're quite reserved,
and Sergio's parents,
they're very happy, talkative,
in your face parents.
So, I don't know how this is gonna go down,
but I don't need my in-laws
to spend 24-7 getting on with each other.
All I need them to do, is get through the wedding.
You know, his dad offered him money
to break up with me,
and his mom cried for a time, too, not from joy.
- Well, it is, on the whole, unusual.
- Well, I never did anything right out of the box, did I?
Initially, when I found out Sergio's father
had offered him money to leave me,
I was ----ing furious,
but I've calmed down, and I find it really hilarious.
Even if Sergio is with me five years, ten years,
he could still go on and start his life.
I'm at the end of my life.
So, I'm like, frankly, I'm keeping Sergio out of trouble
and bringing him up for you. So, there you go.
- I have to say, before I married your mother,
I did come home with a woman that I wanted to marry
who was only four years older than me,
but she had two children,
and my father said, "No!"
and, uh, "There's quite a heavy penalty to pay."
- What was the penalty?
- Leave the family business.
She said it was too big of a price to pay,
and she wouldn't marry me.
- Dad, well, that's nice.
When I first told my parents I was gonna marry
someone 20 years younger, they weren't that shocked.
It was much harder for me to tell my children.
The moment I said that this man
was going to become my husband,
it closes the door on their father.
For any child, that's a very final step.
He was 24 when I met him.
He lied to me. That's one thing.
- Oh, did he? - Yes.
He said he was 31 when I met him.
- Oh, I didn't know that. - Yes.
- He refused to show her, like, an I.D. or anything.
- I kept asking him for his driving license,
an I.D., you know, whatever. - "I lost it.
"Don't have it on me. Don't have a photo."
- Everyone is like, well, he's gonna leave you,
or you're gonna old,
and he'll run off with a younger model.
Well, I mean, he already sees my gray hair,
and we've been together what? - Here she is.
- Two and a bit years.
I think, if he was gonna run, he'd have done it by now.
- Thank you.
- He'll do anything for me, which is so beautiful.
- The answer is, if it works, it works,
and you're the only person that knows that.
And as I shall say in my extremely short speech,
that's the only thing that matters to me.
- Hopefully, this will be my last wedding.
- Hopefully.
- Sergio keeps going to me,
"I can't wait to take care of you."
[laughing] Yeah!
he wants me to get old and put me in a wheelchair
so that he can push me around.
- "I can't wait to take care of you."
- Yes.
Why on earth would you want me to grow old quickly?
- Sarah?
- Yes, madam.
- Can you get me a glass,
so I can have a bottle of wine, please?
- Okay, madam.
Madam, what should I prepare for you?
- My friend, Sara, is coming over,
not you. - Okay.
- She is a vegetarian or a Presbyterian.
I don't know. She only eats fish.
- Okay.
- So, you're gonna prepare some fish for her.
But for now, just bring me some drinks.
- All right, let's go.
- Sarah, should we put the-the vegetable platter
into something glass?
- I think so.
[doorbell ringing] - Okay, coming!
Hi! - Hi.
- Oh, my God, hey, fugly. - Oh, my God!
We're so glad to be here. - Good to see you.
Hi, gorgeous. - Wow.
- I love it. - This is great.
- You know, this is our weekend house.
- I can't keep track with all the houses.
- I know, I thought this was the main house.
- No. - This is nice.
Of course, there's pictures of you on the wall,
uh, everywhere. - Oh.
- Are there any pictures of family or friends or...?
- No. - What about Adam?
- There's pictures of him in his room.
[doorbell rings] - Oh, you have a guest.
- I actually have friends.
- Hi. - Hi, gorgeous.
Come in. - Hi.
- These are my friends.
- Hi. I'm Brian. - This is Brian.
- Adam. - How are you? Sara.
Nice to meet you. - And then this is Adam.
That's Sara. - Nice to meet you.
- Hi. Brian. Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, too.
[cork pops] - Okay, you're good at that.
Brian used to drink a lot in high school.
- I didn't, actually. - Let's sit down.
I've invited Sara
and my best friends over for dinner
because she wasn't at my pool party,
and she's the only friend of mine
that my best friends didn't meet.
- Sarah, it smells very good. - Thank you so much.
- I think she's such a lovely girl,
and there's so much to Sara Al Madani
that I feel like they need to know.
- So, do you have children? - I have a 6-year-old boy.
- Oh, wow. - Maktoum, he's so cute.
- He's too mature for his age, and he asks so many questions.
- But that's a good thing. - It is a good thing.
Yeah, but I'm the type of mom
that I don't hide anything from my child
because Arab men don't usually open up,
but I wanna teach my son
that it's okay to talk about your feelings.
You can still be a man after you do that.
- Hi. - Hi, honey.
Go sit down, sweetie. - Adam, sit with us.
- Adam, come sit with us. - Okay.
- Adam, honey, do you want mommy slice you some chicken?
- Sure - Okay.
Sarah, can you take the chicken over to Adam
and slice him some and then bring it back to me?
- All right. - Thank you.
- I have absolute no idea.
- But, sweetie, what kind of job are you gonna get,
so you can buy me a new Ferrari every year?
- I don't like Ferraris. - But I do.
- Okay.
- You're still young, so you have time.
- Adam, honey, honey, honey,
your knife, your knife, your knife.
No, no, that's not the way you hold it.
Hold it like you hold a pen.
Oh, my God.
- No. - Don't lie.
- Adam, did you finish eating all your chicken?
- Yeah.
- Okay, honey, you can go upstairs.
I'm gonna come see you in a minute.
- Okay. - Okay, love you.
Come give me a kiss.
- Bye. - Bye, sweetie.
Bye, honey. - Bye, Adam.
We'll see you soon. - Bye, Adam.
- All right. - Sarah!
- Yes, madam!
- Love you. Hugs, hugs, hugs.
Huggies and kisses. - I'd love a hug.
- Okay. - All right.
Good night, sweetie. - Okay, bye.
- Thank you.
- Good night, honey. Love you.
- I love you. Bye.
- Sarah, could you assist Adam upstairs?
- All right.
- But you should be tucking him in bed, babe.
- Oh.
- Sara, I wanna get your opinion on something,
children going to boarding school,
and I actually wanna know
if you think it's positive or negative,
because I've never been. - Yeah.
- But I feel like it builds a certain kind of character.
- Boarding school is for people who have no time for their kids.
I have a lot of friends who went to boarding school.
70% of them are emotionally closed.
- Really?
- Because they feel like their parents left them.
Why would you send your kid away?
Because I can just send my son to, like,
a 2-week camp where he learns something on his own and be--
- But that's not the point of boarding school.
- What's the point? - What is the point
of boarding school?
- So, academics are really important to me,
and I wanna see my son excel
far beyond what I ever had. - Of course.
- If I feel like there's something
that can put him ahead, I wanna do it.
- I wanna tell you something, but I don't want you to feel
like I'm trying to intrude or anything like that.
- No, no, I would never feel that way.
- I don't know anything about Adam, right?
- No, no, you don't.
- You need to be closer with him.
- I wanna tell you something, but I don't want you to feel
like I'm trying to intrude or anything like that.
- No, no, I would never feel that way.
- I don't know anything about Adam, right?
- No, no, no, you don't.
- You need to be closer with him.
- With my-- with my child?
- The way you speak to him.
- I'm tough in certain instances.
My child putting his fingers into his plate,
never gonna ----in' happen in front of me.
- He's a kid. - I don't care,
because it's just-- - Caroline is a little
cold-hearted. - It's just not--
I'm not ----ing cold-hearted.
It's just not me.
How I grew up, when we're around adults,
children should be poised.
We're living in a day and age where
everything is a lot looser and not as strict.
- I feel like, when you grew up, your parents were embracing.
They loved you-- - No.
My mother was very militant.
You were not in my house, okay?
I don't like when people interfere in my culture,
when people interfere in how I raise my child,
because I would never do that to them.
- Why don't you break that generational cycle?
- I like how I turned out because of her.
- You're bleeding on people who didn't cut you.
These things, the eating,
you can pick it up when you're older.
- Sara, I'm on your side. - I'm not.
- Caroline, I think, will come to her senses.
- She'll come to her senses when she's a grandma.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- Yeah. - And when she sees
that it didn't matter
when he was 9 years old at the dinner table
because he picked the chicken with his finger.
She's gonna care more about his morals
and his love. - He has all of that,
and I instill all of that into my child.
- I'm not saying he doesn't.
- It's not due to his dad.
- I think hanging around Sara will be really bene--
- Brian, shut the (BLEEP) up.
Honestly, you're getting on my nerves, at this point.
- No, the thing is, look-look-- - You're being stupid.
- No need to fight.
- No, 'cause he actually thinks he's being funny,
and he doesn't-- - I'm not being funny.
- Stop 'cause I'm gonna crse you out
in front of everybody and embarrass you. Shut up.
- No, no, no need to speak to each other like that.
- Shut up, honestly. - Stop, guys. Stop.
- Don't ----ing talk about me and my kid.
[sighs] You're not ----ing cute,
and it's not ----ing funny!
- What did I say? - Don't be ----ing cute!
"She's not affectionate." - When did I say--
- Did you go through it? - You weren't affectionate?
- Shut up!
- I didn't say a word. - There's a line
that you don't ----ing cross! You're not a parent.
I raised that child,
my kid that came out of my vagina.
All of what you see, I achieved that sh-- on my own
'cause you know how hard I ----ing worked!
- I don't know why you're getting crazy.
- No, because don't come into my house
and talk about my parenting!
- Caroline, you got triggered.
It's okay. Relax.
- Sara, you're part of the problem.
You're a mom. - Yeah.
- There's certain buttons you don't push.
The little snarky remarks that are made
about the way that I may deal with my kid,
Sara goes, "But you should be more affectionate."
He's like, "Yeah, I think I agree with her. You should."
- I-I told you, "I don't want to intrude.
Would you let me say something?"
You said, "Yes." - Yeah, sure.
I'm just telling you now.
Like, I don't know you like that.
You understand what I mean?
- But a child-- I can speak on the behalf of a child,
because a child needs three things.
He needs love, care, and affection.
- My kid gets all of that.
- Look, that's fair to say, but you can say that
without getting so angry. - Um, I'm talking to her.
- You should not talk to each other like that.
- He should know better.
He's my friend from childhood. - Exactly.
So, treat me with respect.
- No, no, you treat me with respect in my own house!
[sighs] - Okay.
- What we're not gonna do, not you, not you,
not you, not nobody, is ever gonna talk to me
about how I raise my kid.
- Next time, on "The Real Housewives of Dubai"...
- Sara made a comment. She's like, "Yeah,
"I feel like you should be
"a lot more affectionate to your son."
[gasps] Hold on, bitch.
No.
- My parents are very English,
and your parents are very Spanish.
So, even if this meeting goes terribly badly,
we're married.
Yesterday was a complete ----ing nightmare.
Lost the party planner. Lost the saxophone guy.
Lost-- - What?
- Yeah, all to COVID. - Wow.
- Who? - Chanel.
- Are you ----ing kidding me now?
- I'm in the desert, and I'm so filled with emotion
because all of these people have flown to Dubai
just for us.
It's just showing me how loved we are.
**