{"id":2307137,"date":"2026-03-01T22:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2307137"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:48:51","slug":"kate-ferdinand-says-family-is-safe-after-very-scary-night-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kate-ferdinand-says-family-is-safe-after-very-scary-night-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Ferdinand says family is safe after \u2018very scary\u2019 night in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TV personality Kate Ferdinand said her family had a \u201cvery scary night\u201d at their Dubai home, but are \u201csafe\u201d, after Iran retaliated against a major US-Israeli attack.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian missiles have hit various countries in the Middle East including Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait in response to the US and Israel strikes on Saturday morning, which killed Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>The reality TV star, 34, and her husband, former footballer Rio Ferdinand, relocated to Dubai last year with their young children, and the couple are among several celebrities living in the region as missiles continue to fall.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand shared a post to her 1.4 million followers on Instagram on Sunday, and wrote: \u201cThank you for all of your messages and sorry for the silence, I haven\u2019t wanted to worry you all I just haven\u2019t been able to find the words. We are safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government are doing an amazing job of keeping it that way and despite my nerves I feel we are in very safe hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hoping for a calmer evening tonight, last night was very scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about her young children, the former The Only Way Is Essex star said: \u201cAlthough, Cree and Shae loved it as they couldn\u2019t believe we all got a sleepover in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for all of your prayers, this whole experience is very eye opening and I am praying for anyone affected. Lots of love to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" class=\"w-full\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile former Love Island star Arabella Chi, who is living in Dubai with her daughter Gigi, said the conflict \u201cputs into perspective a lot of things\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The model shared a video to her 1.2 million followers on Instagram to thank them for their support in \u201csuch a scary time\u201d, and told of hearing \u201cpetrifying\u201d explosions from her home in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Chi said: \u201cI feel like the past 24 hours has just been something that I\u2019ve never experienced in my life. Obviously, we are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loud booming sounds could be heard in the background of the video, and the TV star said: \u201cThe bangs are obviously going off right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGigi is at an age where she obviously doesn\u2019t understand what\u2019s going on, which is a big blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cLast night, we literally saw (explosions) coming from not far from our house, and it was petrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" class=\"w-full\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former Geordie Shore star Sam Gowland, said he was kept up overnight at his villa in Dubai by the \u201cbanging\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a post to his Instagram story on Sunday, he wrote: \u201cWow, so scary last night. I hardly slept with all the banging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mornings\u2019 wake-up call was at 7.30am with two more rockets going over my villa. Going to be a crazy day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t really tell you the feeling you get from the noises, I\u2019ve never experienced anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also posted a video urging people to \u201cthink before they speak\u201d and said he has seen negative comments online about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWhy would you wish any of this upon people? Let me tell you something, being here in Dubai last night and this morning was bloody scary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt still is now, it\u2019s very tense. It\u2019s very quiet. No one\u2019s outside. I can\u2019t really describe it, I\u2019ve never been in any situation like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" class=\"w-full\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Petra Ecclestone, the daughter of former Formula 1 founder Bernie Ecclestone, called Saturday night \u201cone of the most scary, worst nights of my life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Instagram, the socialite spoke about her family relocating from Los Angeles to Dubai earlier this year, and said: \u201cI feel like us as a family had been through a lot recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came to Dubai to feel safe, and we finally felt like we were settling in. And now this has happened, so it\u2019s really kind of been a shocking turn of events \u2013 but thank God we are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate video, she said: \u201cI think the worst part of this is when the kids are really scared, and you obviously want to do everything to protect them, and you actually don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have the certain answers for certain things. It was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" class=\"w-full\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.expressandstar.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV personality Kate Ferdinand said her family had a \u201cvery scary night\u201d at their Dubai home, but are \u201csafe\u201d, after Iran retaliated against a major US-Israeli attack. Iranian missiles have hit various countries in the Middle East including Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait in response to the US and Israel strikes on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[318395],"class_list":["post-2307137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-showbiz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kate-Ferdinand-says-family-is-safe-after-\u2018very-scary-night.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307139,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307137\/revisions\/2307139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}