Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich

[purpleme12]

I love that they've channel and Hermes life buoys if they need them 🤣

@Thatswhatmamasaid

I want to watch this! What channel was it on please?

Bbc so iplayer.

The tour of that woman's wardrobe was extraordinary. She had so many handbags costing tens of thousands - wasn't one £90k? I just kept thinking that one shelf could buy a row of houses in some cities! That kind of wealth is unimaginable.

@WowIlikereallyhateyou

Hideously naff individuals, especially the women who needs to have lifebuoys printed with Chanel! What is the point of that?!! Also don’t get me started on her hideously brattish and spoilt child.

I kept thinking that, what kind of life that nanny had.

Thank you @purpleme12.

And thank you @Fritilleries. Will watch on iPlayer tonight.

It's a pretty disgusting set up that place, with all the sex abuse, slavery and segregation. Did they show any of that or was it more about the handbags?

Maireas, I know, I bet the nannies think that too, but sadly are powerless. A real eyesight into everything that is wrong with the world!

@Feliana

It's a pretty disgusting set up that place, with all the sex abuse, slavery and segregation. Did they show any of that or was it more about the handbags?

What do you think? The end credits list a Dubai media company so pretty sure its been screened for approval. It's incredibly surreal but the average, non thinking person won't be bothered.. they'll just get hooked by the "glamour." Tis the way with our society... don't look too closely, you'll see the filthy cracks.

Urgh. And shown on the BBC? For shame.

I watched a couple of episodes and thought it was sickening. Hugely bad for the environment, all those vacuous people somehow thinking that a row of naff handbags or a fancy car made them an interesting person. I'm not in the least envious, I'm a millionaire myself, but do my best to conceal this from everyone.

What? No-one wants to go to the party at the Mugabes' house?

Not even if he had ferrero rocher.

@Feliana

Not even if he had ferrero rocher.

The woman who kept showing off her special book collection looked like she was desperate to be seen as loyal to the regime.

@Fritilleries - the books and the portrait on the wall, the flag and the national colour tributes in the chandeliers. Hilarious.

@purpleme12

Two kitchen!! One not for smelly food!!

A lot of Indian families do this too lol. Smelly kitchen for cooking and nice kitchen for serving / making chai

[quote Maireas]@Fritilleries - the books and the portrait on the wall, the flag and the national colour tributes in the chandeliers. Hilarious. [/quote]
He gives her a tax free existence, it's the least she can do.

With all the building work going on, I wanted to know about the working and living conditions of the thousands of presumably migrant labourers. I guess they are not top notch.

Far from it. They have to give up their passports to their emoloyers. And although the emoloyers are nominally subject to regulations these are routinely circumvented. Eg it is illegal for employees to work outside if the temperature is over 40 degrees. But miraculously every development records a temperature of 39 degrees. In the gulf. The temperature never gets to 40 degrees. And all construction employees just hand over their passports for safekeeping. They don't have to, but all of them do, voluntarily.

Ugh. It made me feel sick the conspicuous vacuous consumption of it all

22:54ItsSnowJokes

It's not a recent trend
It's been going on for decades.
Shame on the people that allow this to happen to them.

Does this programme feature that awful Stanbury woman who was on Ladies of London and who has just married a man 24 years her junior (it won’t last)? I think I saw her in the trailerz

That housekeeper that only saw her son once a year and buying clothes in the second hand shop - her story being told in juxtaposition with the employer going on her private jet to Jersey at a cost of £80k. It's not a wealth gap, that's a chasm.

@Billlius

Does this programme feature that awful Stanbury woman who was on Ladies of London and who has just married a man 24 years her junior (it won’t last)? I think I saw her in the trailerz

It does.

All the ladies look like they have overdosed on Botox and filler.

Gaynor almost seemed to be quite proud to hint to the audience of her having some sort of acquaintance with the Mugabe family. That was pretty sickening to watch.