A reality TV star “banned” from leaving Dubai over a fight has begged for help following Iranian missile strikes.
Maëva Ghennam was audibly shaken as she filmed projectiles streaking across the night sky.
“Oh f*ck, the missiles, look from my place!” she shrieked.
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The 28-year-old told her millions of social media followers: “I’m not lying, my stomach is in knots. I’m scared.”
Maëva – from Marseille, France – moved to the United Arab Emirates several years ago, partly for safety reasons.
She explained in 2020: “I want to live normally, without being afraid of being robbed, and in France, you can’t.”
But after Dubai was struck by Iranian missiles on Saturday (28 Feb), she pleaded with Paris for help.
“If there’s ever a major war, we have to leave,” she said on social media. “We are French. France, protect us.”
However, even if France decided to intervene, Maëva would not be able to leave the UAE easily.
Nearly 10 months ago, she was involved in a fight with her ex-partner at a party in Dubai, captured on CCTV.
She was subsequently summoned by police and slapped with a travel ban by Emirati authorities, as reported by Need To Know.
“Even if the French government decided to repatriate its citizens, I couldn’t leave Dubai because of my travel ban,” she said. “I’m stuck.”
Maëva, who boasts 7m followers across Instagram and TikTok, first rose to fame on the reality show “Les Marseillais” in 2018.
In 2021, she sparked controversy by discussing a cosmetic treatment using radiofrequency and needle-free mesotherapy to “rejuvenate” her vagina.
In September 2024, Maëva, of Algerian descent, survived a gunfire and Molotov cocktail attack at her villa, carried out by the DZ Mafia, also of Algerian origin.
Despite the shock of recent events, she tried to keep perspective.
“I’m reassured because there are no deaths and they’re intercepting all the missiles,” she said.
It has since emerged that three people have been killed and 58 others injured in the UAE.
“We, the French, aren’t used to this,” Maëva told her followers. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. It’s very shocking.”
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