The Dubai Guide to Influencing in a Warzone
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In which we talk about the latest culture war within the UAE celebrity influencer community.
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About Eating For Free:
Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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| 0:35.6 | I'm Hello, everyone reporting to you live from Dubai. |
| 0:51.1 | Chaos has erupted in the world of glamour and hotels and skyscrapers so tall, they |
| 0:57.0 | maybe pierce the sky and now pierce the lives of many who are just trying to survive. |
| 1:02.4 | We have Gemma Collins live on the ground phoning in, letting us know what is happening. |
| 1:06.9 | Ken Gemma, can you hear us? Are you here? What's happening? |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, so I was actually supposed to be moving to Dubai recently, but I just got to say the situation over there is not right, hon. It's just not looking good, you know? |
| 1:19.7 | I just think that with all of this stuff going on, I'm just seeing stuff like Caroline Stanberry in a bunker, babe. It's just not feeling very safe, babes. It's not feeling very glam. It's not feeling Gemma Collins. That's incredibly just horrible to hear. Gemma, can you tell me what are you, where are you right now? Are you safe? Do you have protection or do you know what your evacuation plan is? What's the latest? Babe, babe, I'm sat up in my townhouse in Essex, babe. I didn't even get on the plane. I was supposed to go there to get on the beach, babes. I was going to have an Easter vacation with my man and my babes. But, babes, I'm not even leaving Essex, babes. It's just not looking good over there. or my influencer friends, you know, I got a lot of girls and a lot of hans that have been on |
| 2:02.9 | Love Island, babe, and they're just like, in chaos, babe. |
| 2:07.5 | Like, their dogs are crying, their babies are going hungry, vibes. |
| 2:12.3 | They're saying the grocery stores don't even got nothing, babe. |
| 2:15.1 | You know, I really wanted to leave UK with everything going on, by, with the Labour Party, Kirstama, vibe. |
| 2:22.2 | It's just not looking good. |
| 2:23.4 | But with everything going on in the Middle East, babe, I just don't think I can do it. |
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