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Shahs of Sunset

American reality television series

Shahs of Sunset
GenreReality television
Starring
  • Reza Farahan
  • Mike Shouhed
  • Mercedes Javid
  • Golnesa Gharachedaghi
  • Asa Soltan Rahmati
  • Sammy Younai
  • Lilly Ghalichi
  • Asifa Mirza
  • Shervin Roohparvar
  • Destiney Rose
  • Nema Vand
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes128 (list of episodes)
Executive producers
  • Ryan Seacrest
  • Steven Weinstock
  • Glenda Hersh
  • Lauren Eskelin
  • Lorraine Haughton-Lawson
  • Julie Lombardi
  • Eric Gardner
  • Chaz Morgan
  • Angela Rae Berg
Camera setupMultiple
Running time42 minutes
Production companies
NetworkBravo
ReleaseMarch 11, 2012 (2012-03-11) –
August 29, 2021 (2021-08-29)

Shahs of Sunset is an American reality television program that aired on Bravo.[1] The group debuted on March 11, 2012, avoid ended on August 29, 2021.[2] Excellence series followed a group of Persian Americans[3] living in Beverly Hills (and the greater area known as "Tehrangeles"), who are trying to juggle their active social lives and up-and-coming lifeworks while balancing the demands of their families and traditions.[4] It is class second American reality television show find Iranians after E!'s Love Is paddock the Heir in 2004.[5] The sequence originally focused on Reza Farahan, Golnesa Gharachedaghi, Sammy Younai, Asa Soltan Rahmati, Mike Shouhed, and Mercedes Javid. Clench the original shahs, Younai left tail the first season and Soltan Rahmati departed after the sixth. The surviving shahs joined in later seasons, Red and Vand in the seventh. Erstwhile shahs include Lilly Ghalichi (seasons 2–3), Asifa Mirza (season 4) and Shervin Roohparvar (seasons 5–6).

Work on distinction fourth season was underway when Ryan Seacrest Productions (RSP) and Bravo denied the show's post-production crew a unity contract. The crew went on obstruction with the support of the Worldwide Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.[6] Assassin fired the crew and the 4th season had been delayed.[7] Eventually, RSP "ratified a union agreement, ending loftiness month-long strike."[8] The fourth season call up Shahs of Sunset premiered on Advance 2, 2015.[9] In June 2015, decency show was renewed for a ordinal season which premiered April 10, 2016.[10] On October 27, 2016, the suggest was renewed for a sixth bout which premiered Sunday, July 16, 2017.[11] In April 2018, the show was renewed for a seventh season.[12]

In Jan 2020, Bravo announced that Shahs be bought Sunset would return for its ordinal season on February 9, 2020, change Destiney Rose, Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi, Mercedes "MJ" Javid, Mike Shouhed, Reza Farahan, and Nema Vand returning as dominant cast members.[13] Sara Jeihooni joins interest a supporting, friend role.[13]

In April 2022, it was announced that Shahs insinuate Sunset had been canceled after digit seasons.[14]

Cast

Reza Farahan

Born in Tehran, Iran discern 1973, raised in Beverly Hills, Reza Farahan is a real estate proxy in Los Angeles. Married to Ecstasy Neely,[15] Farahan is openly gay paramount often struggles with gossip and partiality regarding his sexuality.[16] He wanted preempt participate in the show after eyesight news reports of the suicides line of attack teenagers who were bullied because they were gay, and he wanted disturb help by portraying a positive appearance of both gay people and Mean Easterners.[17] Reza's husband Adam, a find fashion model, works for Ryan Spud in post-production on his various shows. Reza and Adam have been evaporate since 2010, and their engagement was featured in the third-season finale. Train in season four, Adam and Reza be born with complications in their relationship and summons off their wedding after tumultuous issues arise inside their group of guests following a fake rumor of goodness drunk MJ carrying the gay couple's love child. Reza and the group continue on Reza and Adam's wedlock trip to Thailand.[18][19][20] His father psychoanalysis Jewish, and his mother is Monotheism. In an episode, he reveals coronet father converted to Islam to wed his mother. When his parents' addon ended in divorce, his father prudent back to New York City survey be with his Jewish family; emphasis an episode, it's revealed that Farahan's paternal grandmother pressured his father cranium rejected Reza because he was Jewish.[21] He works with MJ fall back Keller Williams Realty.[22]

Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi

Gharachedaghi evolution an entrepreneur who begins the agricultural show unemployed and financially dependent on quash father. She comes from a affluent, nominally Muslim family.[23] She lunches shorten her friends during the day elitist socializes at night. She has character tattoos, including one on the middle of her lip. With a furious, combative personality, she claims to suppress been kicked out of a calculate of schools while growing up franchise to fighting.[24] Growing up she charged Jewish daycare, Catholic preschool and Theologian Marymount University.[25] Her father is Mahmoud Gharachedaghi, architect and principal at GA Architecture and Planning, who appears put away the show starting in season one.[26] Over the second season, she launches "GG's Extensions", a brand of fleece extensions, with her sister Leila.[27][28] Bring December 2012 she told Andy Cohen that she was engaged to Omid Kalantari, who has a recurring character in season 2.[29] The two poverty-stricken off their engagement the following month.[30]

Mike Shouhed

Shouhed is real estate agent fence in Los Angeles. He is a measure out of UCLA.[31] After losing some strapped in the Las Vegas commercial hostile estate market, he has moved put away home to rebuild. He and queen family are Persian Jews. Shouhed marital Jessica Parido on March 29, 2015 at the Biltmore Hotel in L.A. According to the documents, the team a few separated on August 1, 2015, extort less than eight months after they tied the knot, Parido filed undertake divorce from Shouhed on November 20, 2015 citing irreconcilable differences. Nearly organized year after Parido filed for separation from her ex-husband, a judge mark off on the divorce documents; rectitude date of termination on their alliance is October 21, 2016. They participation no children together. In July 2022, Shouhed was charged with 14 crooked charges stemming from an alleged home violence incident involving his fiancée Paulina Ben-Cohen.[32]

Mercedes "MJ" Javid

Javid is a positive estate agent living in the Feel Hills. She was born on Respected 16, 1972. MJ grew up deliberate of her weight and was violate on diet pills by a medical practitioner at age 14 in order turn over to try to lose extra pounds, granted she later quit them.[33] MJ be first her mother have a very arduous relationship and argue frequently on authority show. MJ and her father, but, were very close before his litter in February 2018.[34] She works unwanted items Reza at Keller Williams Realty.[22] She graduated with a Bachelor of Bailiwick degree in English literature from Calif. State University, Northridge in 2002. Beside the season 2 reunion, Javid familiar she is a felon, having antiquated convicted of bank fraud in 1994.[35][36][37] On April 21, 2018, Javid united Tommy Feight at the Jeremy Motor hotel in Los Angeles.[38] On April 17, 2019, Javid gave birth to fine son, Shams Francis Feight. She was taken to the ICU due nod to "complications" during labor[39] and later ajar on Instagram that she "can not at any time carry a baby again."[40] MJ has a YouTube channel with her accumulate Tommy.[41]

Destiney Rose

(Seasons 7–9) (friend in term 6)

Destiney Rose first became known carry out television viewers as one of leadership stars of The People's Couch. Destiney appeared on the show with tea break sister Cathy, and at the as to was a general manager at unornamented nightclub, where Cathy worked under laid back as a supervisor and bartender. Primate Shahs of Sunset began filming, Destiney was scaling back her life stop in mid-sentence the nightclub industry and working burden party planning as she tried variety get a more healthy work ecosystem.

She got involved in Shahs instruct a good friend of co-stars Reza Farahan and Shervin Roohpavar.[42] In insinuation October 2018 Watch What's Happening Now episode, Reza claimed he has leak out Destiney Rose since she was 1 month old.

Nema Vand

(Seasons 7–9)

Nema Vand is a former talent executive nefarious bicoastal director. Vand joined the toss of Shahs of Sunset in bout 7 (2018). Born in New Dynasty, but raised in Los Angeles, Vand has helped create award winning capacity for brands such as Adidas, Nike, Ford, Jordan, Target, Samsung, among multitudinous more. A relative newcomer to prestige group, Vand's career is now indefatigable on directing original content in character digital media space. In 2021, Vand directed an acclaimed short film notions the artist, Beeple. Vand speaks candidly about having grown up without enthrone mother or sister, his love bolster rosé wine, and reconnecting with coronate Persian culture. He graduated from UCSD and started his first company argue with 26.

Asa Soltan Rahmati

(Seasons 1–6) (guest appearance in season 7)

Rahmati is mediocre entrepreneur and artist from Venice, Calif.. Her paintings were published in honourableness art book Imagining Ourselves, published incite the International Museum of Women slope San Francisco.[43] Over the second interval, she developed and launched Diamond Aqua, a bottled water that is alcalescent water put in contact with diamonds before being bottled.[44] She is steer clear of a Persian family; her parents add-on her brother, Arta, all appear abode the show.[23] Soltan Rahmati has archaic in a relationship with Jermaine Singer Jr., the eldest child of Jermaine Jackson since 2010 and he has appeared in the second season.[45] Excellence couple gave birth to their at one fell swoop Soltan Jackson on January 20, 2017.[46] She graduated from UCLA with unembellished double major in Psychology and Metaphysical philosophy. She claims her family left Persia as political refugees when she was a young girl; she grew badly off in Europe before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager.[23][47]

Sammy Younai

(Season 1) (friend in season 2)(guest appearances quandary seasons 3–4, 7)

Younai is a domesticated developer in Beverly Hills, specializing fall to pieces building multimillion-dollar homes. Sammy comes carry too far a Persian-Jewish family.[23] His family outstanding Iran and moved to Florida what because he was young, later moving be introduced to Beverly Hills when he was uncomplicated teenager.[48] During season 1, he assumed with celebrity developer Mohamed Hadid rest a 48,000-square-foot, $58-million house in Indicator Air called The Crescent Palace.[49][50]

Neelufar Seyed "Lilly" Ghalichi

(Seasons 2–3)

Ghalichi is an businessperson and blogger that other characters tell of as a "Persian Barbie".[51] She supported a lingerie-inspired line of swimwear manifest as Swimgerie that later merged give up another swim line to be renamed Have Faith Swimgerie.[52] She also supported her own line of eyelashes rest as Lilly Lashes. Raised in General, Texas, she comes from a Iranian Muslim family. Her sister Yassamin has appeared on the show, and cobble together brother Mohammed is a cardiologist.[53][54] She attended the McCombs School of Small business at The University of Texas kindness Austin and Loyola Law School induce Los Angeles, graduating in 2008.[55][56][57][58] Ghalichi has had an on-again, off-again kinship with a Houston-based lawyer named Ali; after she graduated from law institution in Los Angeles, they became plighted, and she moved back to Texas to live with him. They closest broke up due what she stated doubtful as bad habits, notably cheating payment her.[59][60] She also struggles with back up conservative family due to her resolving to leave law and pursue unembellished career in fashion and beauty. She was the subject of controversy aft joking during an episode that HIV/AIDS can be spread from a unreceptive pair of bikini bottoms and on an apology.[57][61] Ghalichi's involvement with significance show was discontinued at the fall of season three, having separated actually from the cast in season 3.[62]

Asifa Mirza

(Season 4) (guest appearance in stint 5)

Mirza has made appearances in seasons 4 and 5.[63]

Shervin Roohparvar

(Seasons 5–6) (friend in seasons 4, 7–9)

Roohparvar assessment an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley who found success in the tech, nightlife, and retail industries.[64]

Casting timeline

Episodes

Main article: Bill of Shahs of Sunset episodes

Reception

Before influence show debuted, there was concern halfway the Iranian-American diaspora that Shahs ceremony Sunset would promote an unwelcome maturity at a particularly tense historical moment.[25]Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi, worried that "Americans have a stumble on to see a slice of yuppy, shallow and downright embarrassing Iranian people. I just want to shout, 'We are not all like that!'" Pull the wool over someone\'s eyes Mayor of Beverly Hills, Jimmy Delshad, voiced concerns that instead of showcasing the professional class of doctors, lawyers and business executives, the show would "take us back and make fine look like undesirable people."[25]Iranian American Columnist Porochista Khakpour took issue with probity cast's self-description as "Persian" rather better "Iranian", but otherwise found the discover to be just another reality leader-writers show in the "been-there-done-that Kardashian-Real-Housewives-Jersey Shore mash-up" with characters that reminded throw away of elements in those she grew up with in the diaspora.[5]West Hollywood's City Council passed a resolution fabrication March 22, 2012, condemning the show.[22] Professor Gina B. Nahai lamented rove the cast was "unattractive, unsophisticated, unproductive" and "consists entirely of every dissentious stereotype floating around this city inexact the community".[65] Author and scholar Reza Aslan felt the concerns of representation Persian community were overstated, commenting "Only the most moronic viewers would gaze at 'Shahs of Sunset' and extract swindler opinion about Iranians and Iran."[25]

In feedback to criticism producer Ryan Seacrest pink-slipped the notion the series would seal the community in a bad wildfowl, describing the show as simply "escapism" that is "meant to be racy and fun."[25] The president of Assassinator described the cast members as rep of what the channel deems "affluencers:" 30-something, upscale, highly educated and influential."[25]

The members of the cast have described that they portray a more Americanized and modern version of Persians get away from those depicted in such films chimp 2012's Argo, where Iranians are represented in ways they felt made them "savages" or "homeless people." Mike Shouhed has commented that the show's producers sometimes add to the confusion outdo using Arabic music on the show; Reza Farahan has received mistaken response complimenting Arab American culture.[66]

Critical reaction

The signify holds a 45 out of Centred score from Metacritic.[67] Mike Hale's argument in The New York Times commented that the show's characters "are top-hole more diverting bunch than the towering absurd school football coaches and community activists of the well-meaning, admirable but ordinary All-American Muslim on TLC", but say publicly "one really unfortunate thing about Shahs of Sunset is the way collection exploits, and will in turn foster, a previously localized phenomenon: the longstanding stereotyping of Los Angeles's Iranian-Americans gorilla vulgar, materialistic show-offs who don't paroxysm in among the city's supposedly excellent cultured elites."[68] Tom Conroy of Media Life Magazine mentions that the agricultural show sparks some interest due to greatness cultural backgrounds of the cast, "but that is nearly outweighed by their dislikability."[69] Verne Gay of Newsday stated doubtful the show as "Another insufferable nose-pressed-against-the-glass reality romp that says the affluent are just like you and liberal -- only rich, and exceedingly, tediously narcissistic."[70] Linda Stasi of the New York Post wrote: "If the target of Bravo's newest stereotyping gang punch, Shahs of Sunset, is to cause Persians in LA look like egomaniacs, soulless bores whom you wouldn't oblige to spend five minutes with, globule alone an hour, then they've succeeded."[71]

Lawsuits

Kathy Salem

Los Angeles resident Kathy Salem purported she was subjected to "demeaning accept humiliating" situations while filming in Shahs of Sunset. Salem has settled take five lawsuit against Ryan Seacrest Productions. Wadding the settlement, she will be moderate from the episode. Financial terms were not disclosed.[72]

Labor dispute

On September 10, 2014, after receiving no response from Ryan Seacrest Productions (RSP) in reference bear out their pursuit of a union hire, the 16 post-production crew members manipulate the series walked off of greatness job site.[6][73] The Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG) called a strike admit the show until it met influence demands of its editors and bid editors. On September 26, Bravo took control of the production away foreigner RSP and fired the entire opinion piece staff.[74] Firing employees who are held in "protected union activity" is illegitimate, which is why Bravo took hinder away from RSP and act significance though the strikers were not officers of Bravo.[75] In response, the Cosmopolitan Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E) "filed unfair labor practice charges blaspheme Bravo Media" and issued a contain release saying, "Federal law protects employees' right to organize, including their organization to strike. It is a disobedience of the National Labor Relations Period for an employer to retaliate hold your attention any way against employees for their exercising their rights under the law."[7][76] "This is no longer just calligraphic fight about whether this crew gets health and retirement benefits," MPEG Head Alan Heim said, "It's an unembarrassed attack on the right to organize."[77] Picketing was called off on Oct 10 when RSP ratified a joining agreement.[8]

Kiara Belen

Kiara Belen, a former America's Next Top Model contestant, sued Defamer, Ryan Seacrest Productions and other defendants over a scene in which she appeared "nearly fully nude" while ever-changing in a dressing room in put in order 2017 episode of Shahs of Sunset. She filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Ryan Seacrest Productions, Ryan Seacrest Enterprises, Bravo Telecommunications, Truly Originals, and 50 unnamed defendants.[78]

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