Bravo star Caroline Stanbury has insisted that she feels “safer” leaving the U.S. to return home to Dubai amid the Iran War.
“I mean, I just need to put it into perspective as well, actually,” Stanbury, 49, told PageSix’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast in an interview recorded on Friday, March 6. “This is kind of interesting. There have been 600 missiles, 500 drones intercepted and I used to be in Austin on the first of March, 24 hours before the mass shooting — so in all of this war thus far, we have now had three deaths.”
International reports suggest that six people have been killed and 122 have been wounded within the United Arab Emirates because the Iran War began on February 28.
“I believe there have been 14 people injured in Austin and I’m unsure how many individuals died. [Four people died and 15 were killed in the Austin bar attack.] And there’s been two other shootings since then in America,” Stanbury noted in her latest podcast interview. “So let’s just put it in perspective. I still feel safer there than I do in most European or American cities immediately.”
The Traitors season 4 star revealed on March 1 that she was stranded in Los Angeles while her twin sons, Zack and Aaron, were at home in Dubai. (Stanbury shares the twins and daughter Yasmin together with her ex-husband Cem Habib. She married her current husband, Sergio Carrallo, in 2021.)
“Thanks a lot for all of the amazing messages I get — I’m currently in L.A, which will not be ideal because my sons are in Dubai,” Stanbury revealed in a video on her Instagram Story. “But they’re secure and I feel very comfortable with where they’re and so they feel very comfortable. Obviously, I would really like to get back as soon as I can but that’s impossible immediately.”
Since then, Stanbury confirmed to the “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast that Habib has been staying with the twins.
“Again, I even have two 16-year-old boys and, obviously, I do know the severity of the situation but thank god, being teenagers, they’re like, ‘Mom, calm down. We’re advantageous, stay over there,’” she said. “So it wasn’t like they were on this giant disaster zone and having a heart attack while I used to be sitting over here in L.A.”
Stanbury now plans to return to Dubai once direct flights from L.A. to the region resume on March 15. The Ladies of London alum considered attempting to make her way home by flying into Doha, Qatar, only to find that the trip would include its own challenges.
Caroline Stanbury and Sergio Carrallo in Dubai in January 2026. Darren Arthur/Getty Images for KS Konnect
“The flights are the flights,” she explained. “I can get to Doha now on one other airline but when I get to Doha, the airspace there’s closed. So I’d quite stay put and wait it out. It’s only one other week.”
Stanbury moved from London to Dubai when then-husband Habib was offered a job within the United Arab Emirates in 2016. She later starred on two seasons of The Real Housewives of Dubai before Bravo paused the series in 2024.
During a February 2025 appearance on Vicki Gunvalson’s “My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast,” Stanbury suggested that Real Housewives stars “never really know” about their future within the Bravoverse.
“Everyone all the time tells you, ‘Don’t depend on Housewives,’ and so I believe that’s really essential. It’s something I learned from [Ladies of London]. It might be taken, it might go at any time,” she acknowledged. “I don’t think plenty of people saw us being paused, which, we’re ‘paused,’ not ‘cancelled.’”