The Real Housewives of Dubai star Chanel Ayan was fortunate capable to people an invitation to Teresa Giudice‘s glamorous New Jersey wedding to Luis Ruelas this past summer. Chanel wasn’t the lone Housewife astatine the nuptials, but she was decidedly the astir astonishing to spot there, considering she lives connected the different broadside of the world. So erstwhile HollywoodLife spoke to Chanel connected Day 1 of BravoCon 2022 implicit the weekend, we asked her however she ended up making accelerated friends with Teresa to get the wedding invite.
“Okay, truthful she started pursuing me. And past she told maine that she ne'er watches Housewives. But she loves to ticker me. And she said I was funny,” Chanel told america EXCLUSIVELY. “So that’s however we connected.”

Chanel credited Teresa’s Real Housewives of New Jersey co-star Jennifer Aydin with helping marque this unexpected transportation happen. “[I went] retired for luncheon with her. So I met [her] and we conscionable connected immediately,” the Bravo prima shared. “Yeah, truthful we went retired different night. And past she texts me. She’s like, ‘Do you privation to travel to my wedding?’ And I was like, ‘Absolutely.’ It was past minute.”
“I did person thing to deterioration if I wanted to,” Chanel added of her wedding outfit, earlier joking that she didn’t deterioration an over-the-top formal similar she did astatine Caroline Stanbury‘s engagement party connected the archetypal play of RHODubai. Chanel decided to deterioration a gorgeous achromatic formal to Teresa’s wedding wherever she partied with chap Housewives like Kenya Moore, Cynthia Bailey, Dorinda Medley, and Ashley Darby.
We besides asked Chanel which Housewives from different cities she’s connected with the astir since joining the Bravo universe, and she instantly showed immoderate emotion to Teresa and the different RHONJ gals.
“I really emotion talking to her. I emotion talking to Dolores [Catania]. I similar a batch of New Jersey girls, due to the fact that during this summertime I mislaid my passport. So I was adjacent to them. So I got to spot them a batch and get to cognize them.”
Chanel besides mentioned Garcelle Beauvais from RHOBH and Karen Huger from RHOP as different Houswives that she connected with connected the archetypal time of BravoCon. “She [Karen] didn’t spot maine origin I was like, ‘Karen!’, but she possibly thought I was conscionable 1 of the fans. I was waving to her similar a brainsick person,” Chanel said. “Just a batch of them person reached retired and it’s amazing.”