Properly achieved previous man Caroline Stanbury has insisted that she feels “safer” leaving the U.S. to return dwelling to Dubai amid the Iran Struggle.
“I imply, I simply wish to put it into perspective as effectively, truly,” Stanbury, 49, advised PageSix’s “Digital Reali-Tea” podcast in an interview recorded on Friday, March 6. “That is fairly attention-grabbing. There have been 600 missiles, 500 drones intercepted and I used to be in Austin on the first of March, 24 hours earlier than the mass taking pictures — so in all of this battle up to now, now we have had three deaths.”
Worldwide reviews counsel that six individuals have been killed and 122 have been wounded within the United Arab Emirates for the reason that Iran Struggle started on February 28.
“I feel there have been 14 individuals injured in Austin and I’m unsure how many individuals died. (4 individuals died and 15 have been killed within the Austin bar assault.) And there’s been two different shootings since then in America,” Stanbury famous in her newest podcast interview. “So let’s simply put it in perspective. I nonetheless really feel safer there than I do in most European or American cities proper now.”
The Traitors season 4 star revealed on March 1 that she was stranded in Los Angeles whereas her twin sons, Zack and Aaron, have been at dwelling in Dubai. (Stanbury shares the twins and daughter Yasmin along with her ex-husband Cem Habib. She married her present husband, Sergio Carralloin 2021.)
“Thanks a lot for all of the superb messages I get — I’m at present in L.A, which isn’t supreme as a result of my sons are in Dubai,” Stanbury revealed in a video on her Instagram Story. “However they’re protected and I really feel very comfy with the place they’re they usually really feel very comfy. Clearly, I wish to get again as quickly as I can however that’s not attainable proper now.”
Since then, Stanbury confirmed to the “Digital Reali-Tea” podcast that Habib has been staying with the twins.
“Once more, I’ve two 16-year-old boys and, clearly, I do know the severity of the state of affairs however thank god, being youngsters, they’re like, ‘Mother, settle down. We’re superb, keep over there,’” she stated. “So it wasn’t like they have been on this big catastrophe zone and having a coronary heart assault whereas I used to be sitting over right here in L.A.”
Stanbury now plans to return to Dubai as soon as direct flights from L.A. to the area resume on March 15. The Women of London alum thought of attempting to make her approach dwelling by flying into Doha, Qatar, solely to find that the journey would include its personal challenges.

Caroline Stanbury and Sergio Carrallo in Dubai in January 2026.
Darren Arthur/Getty Photographs for KS Konnect“The flights are the flights,” she defined. “I can get to Doha now on one other airline but when I get to Doha, the airspace there’s closed. So I’d reasonably keep put and wait it out. It’s solely one other week.”
Stanbury moved from London to Dubai when then-husband Habib was provided a job within the United Arab Emirates in 2016. She later starred on two seasons of The Actual Housewives of Dubai earlier than Bravo paused the sequence in 2024.
Throughout a February 2025 look on Vicki Gunvalson’s “My Good friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast,” Stanbury steered that Actual Housewives stars “by no means actually know” about their future within the Bravoverse.
“Everybody all the time tells you, ‘Don’t depend on Housewives,’ and so I feel that’s actually vital. It’s one thing I discovered from (Women of London). It may be taken, it will probably go at any time,” she acknowledged. “I don’t assume lots of people noticed us being paused, which, we’re ‘paused,’ not ‘cancelled.’”
