Former Miss Jamaica contestant among ‘Real Housewives of Dubai’
Former Miss Jamaica World contestant Lesa “Milan” Hall is among the cast members of “The Real Housewives of Dubai”, the latest edition of the hit American reality television franchise which debuts Wednesday on Bravo.
Hall, who the show’s website describes as “a successful fashion designer and entrepreneur living out her dreams in Dubai”, will join five other “housewives” inducted into the network’s crown jewel of catfights and marital meltdowns that is beloved, binged and hate-watched around the world.
The other “housewives” are Caroline Stanbury, a reality star who moved to Dubai with her kids after getting divorced and remarrying a former football player; Caroline Brooks, an Afro-Latina businesswoman from Massachusetts who rose to success in Dubai’s cutthroat real estate industry; Nina Ali, an ultra-glam Lebanese mother of three and founder of Fruit Cake, a fruitcake business; Chanel Ayan, a breezy Kenyan-born model who overcame prejudices in the UAE to walk for top-tier European fashion houses and is now developing a makeup line; and Sara Al Madani, a serial entrepreneur and single mom who is the only Emirati cast member.
It is the first time in the show’s 16-year history that Bravo will be producing an international version of the series. While the franchise has sold countless global spinoffs from Lagos to Vancouver, none have been produced by the network before.
Hall entered the Miss Jamaica World pageant in 2009 and was a member of the cast of BET’s College Hill from 2008-2009.
The Jamaican beauty is the founder and chief designer of luxury maternity fashion brand Mina Roe, which has been worn and loved by celebrities, according to the show’s website, adding that Hall “is also a devoted wife to her millionaire financier and real estate developer husband, Richard Hall, and the proud mother to their three children – Maximillian, Sebastian and Kristian.”
Additional reporting by AP