Nabilla Benattia

In April 2019, Nabilla and her partner Thomas confirmed that they were expecting their first child, and are planning to move to Dubai once it is born.

In June 2018, conceptual artist Andy Picci unveiled a new body of work dedicated to Benattia. The exhibition at Joseph Saint Martin gallery consisted of a series of paintings by classic masters – including the Mona Lisa – on to which Picci has photoshopped Benattia's features.

In April 2016, she released an autobiographical book, Trop vite (Too fast).

On 7 November 2014, she was arrested and subsequently detained for several weeks after wounding her boyfriend Thomas Vergara in the chest with a knife during an argument. After keeping a low profile for several months, she made a media comeback in April 2016, by publishing her autobiography. On 19 May 2016, she was sentenced to six months in jail, but avoided returning behind bars thanks to the French system of penalty adjustments. She and Thomas Vergara reconciled before the trial.

In early 2013, she finished filming on the fifth series in Florida. For her participation in this series, Benattia purportedly earned €25,000. In the fourth episode, after an argument with a participant regarding the purchasing of shampoo, Benattia uttered to the camera the words which led to the establishment of her celebrity status:

In April 2013, a French Wikipedia article about her was deleted after a debate resulted in the decision that she lacked encyclopedic interest, being merely the object of a "buzz" instead of proper "information"; this decision on the French-language Wikipedia generated some media attention The page was redirected to that of Les Anges de la téléréalité.; in January 2014, it was ultimately recreated and kept after another debate, which concluded that her notability had proved sufficiently durable.

On 12 November 2013, her own TV Reality show started on NRJ 12. Called Allô Nabilla, ma famille en Californie (in reference to her famous line "Non mais allô quoi"), the show follows her and her family in Los Angeles. The show got mixed reviews. While the premiere's ratings were disappointing, the show performed ultimately well, and was renewed for three other seasons. In September 2014, she became a columnist for Touche pas à mon poste !, France's most popular talk show.

Nabilla Benattia was born in Ambilly, France with an Algerian/Italian origin near the border with Switzerland. Her father is a Frenchman of Berbers of Algerian origin and her mother Algerian and Swiss Italian. She has been in a relationship with Thomas Vergara since January 2013.

During 2012, she appeared in the fourth series of les Anges de la télé-réalité, shot in Hawaii. The programme, which airs on NRJ 12, follows a group of reality TV personalities for ten weeks. On the show she became romantically involved with Sofiane Tadjine-Lambert, who was in Star Academy 4. He wrote a song for her Dingue de toi (Nabi… Nabilla), which reached number 25 in the French music charts. Following the show, she was interviewed by Jeremstar, on the show La Conciergerie.[1]

Nabilla was first hired by a modelling agency when she was 14 years old. Soon after, she was elected Miss Salon international de l'automobile de Genève 2011 while working on the Peugeot stand. At age 17, Benattia lied about her age to take part of the TF1's reality TV show l'Amour est aveugle (the French version of "love is blind"), where participants meet in total darkness.

In July 2009, Nabilla Benattia was arrested for her part in a fraud alongside three Congolese and sentenced to six months in prison. She used a stolen passport to open three bank accounts under a false identity. Meanwhile, the Congolese individuals intercepted money transfers from public letter boxes and modified the bank account details to match the accounts Benattia had set up. She subsequently withdrew money from them. The victims were slow to realise the theft because most of them were elderly people. According to the department of justice, approximately 200,000 Swiss francs were stolen. She was caught on CCTV in a branch of UBS Bank in January 2009 and was arrested at Geneva airport in July 2009, with the passport of her cousin, and used a false identity to the police. She spent a month in La Clairière youth detention centre for her part in the crimes.

Nabilla Leona Benattia (Arabic: نبيلة بن عطية ‎), better known as Nabilla, (born February 5, 1992), is a Franco-Swiss model and reality TV personality. She has appeared in L'Amour est aveugle (2009), Hollywood Girls (2012–2014), Les Anges de la télé-réalité (2012–2013) and her own TV show Allo Nabilla (2013–2014).