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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. Here's the editor of the Daily Oz,

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Speaker 1: Emma Gillespie. That's entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Well, hello, I have an exciting one to talk to

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Speaker 2: you about today. A bit of a different story, but

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Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with this one and I'll tell you I

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Speaker 2: A Dubai princess has divorced her husband in a rather

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Speaker 2: uncouth fashion, but a rather brilliant one on Instagram. Shaker

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Speaker 2: Mara Bint, whose father is His Highness Sheik Muhammad, the

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Speaker 2: ruler of Dubai no less, she posted this message on

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Speaker 2: Instagram do her seven hundred thousand followers. It said, dear husband,

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Speaker 2: as you are occupied with other companions, I hear by

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Speaker 2: declare our divorce. I divorce you. I divorce you, I

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Speaker 2: divorce you. Take care your ex wife.

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Speaker 1: Wow, because wasn't that Is it true that that was

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Speaker 1: the traditional way to say, I divorce you three times

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Speaker 1: doesn't meant you divorced?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So it's a take on this Muslim practice of

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Speaker 2: triple to luck is what it's called. It's very traditional

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Speaker 2: conservative practice that's been banned in many countries, but it

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Speaker 2: usually allows husband's or historically has allowed a husband to

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Speaker 2: quickly divorce his wife by saying I divorced you three

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Speaker 2: times without needing to offer a reason or obtain any

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Speaker 2: kind of agreement.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to get rid of that idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not traditionally something that women have co opted,

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Speaker 2: so this is sort of very subversive and of course

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Speaker 2: Dubai entire you know, UAE very conservative pretty Mills rights. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: So it's ruffled a lot of feathers. But people thought

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Speaker 2: that the account was hacked at first, but the post

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Speaker 2: has been up for weeks, so it's legit. But her husband,

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Speaker 2: they've only been married for a year. They had a

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Speaker 2: baby together in May, and she posted a photo on

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Speaker 2: Instagram with the baby, saying just the two of us

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Speaker 2: back in May, and everyone thought, oh, that's so sweet,

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Speaker 2: just the two of us, Mum and bub. But now

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Speaker 2: everyone's looking at that through a different lens because obviously

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Speaker 2: she meant it adds a rat bag.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because she outed him as being a philanderer to

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Speaker 1: say you're occupied with other companions.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and he sounds like a great guy. Sheik Mana

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Speaker 2: is his name. He is apparently an entrepreneur with business

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Speaker 2: interests in tech and real estate. His instagram is public

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Speaker 2: and it features a bunch of posts of him alongside

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Speaker 2: Andrew Tate, he self proclaimed influence a misogynist. Let I

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Speaker 2: remind you that he is awaiting trial on human trafficking chargers,

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Speaker 2: rape charges. He's recently been revealed as allegedly having not

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Speaker 2: paid any tax for the last fifteens.

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Speaker 1: Andrew titled the.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Tate But just to give you an idea of

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Speaker 2: the company that the husband keeps. So after a year

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Speaker 2: of marriage, that seems like that one's not worked out.

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Speaker 2: Just a year, yeah, just a year. They celebrated their

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Speaker 2: anniversary in may Or. I'm guessing they didn't celebrate.

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Speaker 1: So interesting for a number of reasons. One is that

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Speaker 1: you don't often see women take the power in this

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Speaker 1: way in that part of the world over there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: has her father responded.

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Speaker 2: We haven't heard anything from Sheik Muhammad, But I got

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Speaker 2: really deep into the background of this whole family. He's

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Speaker 2: got twenty seven children with seven wives, so Mara isn't

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Speaker 2: his first daughter. He's got two other daughters who had

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Speaker 2: tried to escape Dubai in previous best story, Yes, and

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Speaker 2: they were caught and jailed last year. One of his daughters,

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Speaker 2: one of the escapees, she did an interview describing her

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Speaker 2: dad as a major criminal. She said he was responsible

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Speaker 2: for imprisoning disobedient women time and time again. Anyway, this

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Speaker 2: all deal, whole other story, but really excitingly is being

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Speaker 2: developed into a four part drama series.

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Speaker 1: Because she went to great lengths to try and escape.

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Speaker 1: I think she was put on a boat and taken

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Speaker 1: somewhere and her his lackeys found her and brought her back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fascinating, terrifying story. So I'm sure it's going to

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Speaker 2: make great TV.

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Speaker 1: About her life. Shame about her dad because everyone goes, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's great going to a radio show in Dubai, but

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Speaker 1: you can't say anything. Yeah, you get your hands chopped

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Speaker 1: and you scratch under the surface and it's this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not all these great, big hotels and lots of

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Speaker 1: people with money. Underneath the surface. It's a very conservative country. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And Shaik Muhammed, so the dad of this princess who

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Speaker 2: made the Instagram post, he's been as with being the

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Speaker 2: guy that's really put Dubai on the mat, built all

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Speaker 2: these skyscrapers, made it a tourist destination rather than somewhere

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Speaker 2: that you just stop over for a few hours. On

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Speaker 2: a flight somewhere else. But I think the little known

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Speaker 2: story of little lesser disgusted story is the fact that,

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Speaker 2: you know, he has all these daughters who have made

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Speaker 2: some pretty damning allegations against him. And yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: we laugh at this, but obviously, you know, we have

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Speaker 2: to remember that women in these situations are really deprived

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Speaker 2: of the human rights and it's.

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Speaker 1: A very dangerous position for these women to be in. Yep, wow,

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Speaker 1: thank you M. What's this space