Nabilla Benattia, or simply Nabilla, (born 1992) is a model and a personality on French reality TV of Italian-Algerian origin She has appeared in l'Amour est aveugle, Hollywood Girls and les Anges de la tele-realite.
She has gained cult status in France for her one-liner "non, mais allo quoi" on les Anges de la tele-realite. The line was subsequently used in ads from brands such as IKEA and Carrefour. It gave rise to a number of parody videos viewed millions of times on YouTube, including a Downfall parody. She registered the phrase as a trademark at the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle
Career
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, Benattia, aged 17 in October 2011, appeared in TF1's reality TV show l'Amour est aveugle, in which the participants meet in total darkness.
Following her first appearance on TV, Benattia underwent breast enlargement surgery, which she claims was to further her career, enabling her to appear in publications such as Maxim and Playboy.
During 2012, she appeared in the fourth series of les Anges de la tele-realite, 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.
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 at the request of one of the other women, Benattia uttered the words to the camera that led to the establishment of her celebrity status:
Personal life
Nabilla was born in Ambilly, France near the border with Switzerland. Her father is Algerian and her mother, Italian. She has been in a relationship with Thomas Vergara since January 2013.
Nabilla Benattia was found involved in criminal activities in Geneva between 2008 and 2009. She was employed by three Zairian fraudsters to open bank accounts using a stolen passport and to withdraw money. She was caught on CCTV in an office of the UBS Bank in January 2009 and was arrested at Geneva airport in July 2009. After she implicated the Zairians, they were charged with fraud. She spent a month in La Clairière prison for her part in the crimes.
She has gained cult status in France for her one-liner "non, mais allo quoi" on les Anges de la tele-realite. The line was subsequently used in ads from brands such as IKEA and Carrefour. It gave rise to a number of parody videos viewed millions of times on YouTube, including a Downfall parody. She registered the phrase as a trademark at the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle
Career
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, Benattia, aged 17 in October 2011, appeared in TF1's reality TV show l'Amour est aveugle, in which the participants meet in total darkness.
Following her first appearance on TV, Benattia underwent breast enlargement surgery, which she claims was to further her career, enabling her to appear in publications such as Maxim and Playboy.
During 2012, she appeared in the fourth series of les Anges de la tele-realite, 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.
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 at the request of one of the other women, Benattia uttered the words to the camera that led to the establishment of her celebrity status:
Personal life
Nabilla was born in Ambilly, France near the border with Switzerland. Her father is Algerian and her mother, Italian. She has been in a relationship with Thomas Vergara since January 2013.
Nabilla Benattia was found involved in criminal activities in Geneva between 2008 and 2009. She was employed by three Zairian fraudsters to open bank accounts using a stolen passport and to withdraw money. She was caught on CCTV in an office of the UBS Bank in January 2009 and was arrested at Geneva airport in July 2009. After she implicated the Zairians, they were charged with fraud. She spent a month in La Clairière prison for her part in the crimes.
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