Mona Kattan, one Dubai’s biggest success stories after conquering the world of beauty, will be joining Netflix’s hotly anticipate second season of Dubai Bling—after turning down the first season.
The disagreement that led to her exiting talks from the first season was over creative differences over storylines.
Kattan is the co-founder of Huda Beauty, founder of Kayali Fragrance, president of HB investments and co-starred in the show Huda Boss.
Why Mona Kattan turned down season 1 of Dubai Bling
“Mona was the big-name superstar that was going to carry to show. But she refused to do it in the end, and Netflix had to completely change the stories and cast to somehow make it work,” a source told Arabian Business back in September.
“She was the real deal, a genuinely wealthy individual with star power. Dubai Bling was reaching for the stars with her on the show. It’s a massive shame,” the source said.
The relationship has apparently been amended, as she confirmed to Harper’s Bazaar Arabia that she will be joining for season 2.
The second season of the hugely popular show was confirmed this afternoon, with Netflix also revealing the huge streaming numbers for the UAE-based series.
“Dubai Bling season one, launched exclusively on Netflix on October 27th, 2022, to global success, trending in the Global Top 10 for Non-English series for four weeks in a row and reaching the top 10 list in 47 countries around the world,” said Netflix.
Season two will feature both familiar faces in addition to the new blood. While we don’t have names besides Kattan so far, it was recently reported by Arabian Business that social media star and rapper Amy Roko was originally slated for the season before departing during filming.
“No comment,” Roko commented to Harper’s Bazaar Arabia.
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