Unlikely celeb duo travel buddies on new show

Beloved Aussie histrion Jane Hall is not successful Erinsborough anymore.

The erstwhile Neighbours prima is surviving her champion beingness with question companion Miguel Maestre for the caller Foxtel series Luxury Escapes: The World’s Best Holidays.

The bid sees our favourite Aussie celebrities play question usher connected the programme each week, with stars specified arsenic Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Rebecca Gibney, Neale Whitaker and Cameron Daddo – who escaped to Tuscany, Italy successful the archetypal occurrence – each embarking connected trips of a lifetime.

And successful Hall’s occurrence airing tonight, she was fortunate capable to research Dubai successful a lavish 6-star escape.

“I honestly had nary thought what to expect truthful everything we experienced successful Dubai was a spectacular surprise. I recovered it to beryllium breathtaking!” the 52-year-old histrion tells news.com.au.

“To question with Luxury Escapes was genuinely the item due to the fact that I was capable to research Dubai successful a mode I ne'er could person imagined (or afforded!!). Our travel was cautiously curated and designed to let america to cherry prime the champion experiences and accommodation connected connection successful the city.

“There’s a large woody of wealthiness successful Dubai, truthful the luxury was dialled up to 10 and we were truthful unbelievably fortunate to thigh it each up!”

On their trip, Hall and Maestre, 43, stayed astatine not 1 but 2 of Dubai’s finest hotels: the luxury godforsaken edifice Bab Al Shams and the recently opened opulent Atlantis The Royal, successful which the Royal Mansion penthouse costs a staggering $100,000 per night.

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“I’m huffy for a fabulous edifice and I person the 2 we stayed in, Bab Al Shams and Atlantis The Royal, are unrivalled successful the opulent luxury stakes,” Hall gushed.

The question buddies besides shared immoderate amusive moments off-camera wherever Hall witnessed Maestre’s awesome haggling skills astatine the souk market.

“We spent an day astatine the souk marketplace successful the accepted country of Dubai and Miguel proceeded to bash immoderate of the astir astonishing bartering and haggling I person ever seen,” she shared.

“It was hilarious watching him whipping everyone up into a frenzy. He managed to bargain my mum a cashmere shawl for astir 1 tenth of what the stallholder was asking.”

“I perfectly loved travelling with Miguel … his joyousness and enthusiasm for beingness is infectious and you can’t assistance but beryllium swept up successful it! Seeing Dubai alongside Miguel was ridiculously amusive … and conscionable arsenic noisy arsenic you would expect. Miguel is hilarious, large hearted, truthful benignant and a bloody fantastic cook … I lone anticipation we are sent disconnected connected different Luxury Escapes escapade soon!”

Needless to say, Erinsborough volition ne'er unrecorded up to the opulence that is Dubai, but Hall says she wouldn’t caput returning to her stomping grounds to revive her quality of Rebecca.

“I adored my years connected the series. If they ever request Rebecca to crook up again and rattle Paul’s cage, I’d lone beryllium excessively blessed to bash so!” said Hall, who appeared connected the long-running soap from 2007 to 2019.

“Neighbours is portion of the fibre of the Australian TV landscape. Making a amusement similar Neighbours takes accomplishment and endurance and I instrumentality my chapeau disconnected to the hardworking and loyal long-standing formed and unit members. It’s a household atmosphere, and you ne'er hide being a portion of it. It remains truly memorable for me.”

Another bid adjacent to her bosom is the Aussie sitcom All Together Now, which marks 30 years since the amusement wrapped successful 1993.

“I’ve really been watching aged episodes arsenic you tin spot them connected Prime!” she said. “It was an unthinkable bully luck to beryllium portion of a deed amusement successful the aboriginal 1990s erstwhile web TV was pumping retired content. We filmed successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage each Saturday nighttime and those nights were fabulous.”

“I learned a large woody astir comedic acting and unrecorded performance. We were precise adjacent arsenic a cast, and my enduring adjacent relationship with Rebecca Gibney is testament to that. We had an implicit blast.”

Luxury Escapes: The World’s Best Holidays is present streaming connected BINGE and Foxtel