Halema Boland
Halema Boland, born Halema Abdoljalil Boland, is a Kuwaiti TV presenter and former fashion model. She started on Kuwait Television in the mid-1990s and became famous for her bold outfits and lively, sometimes playful persona. She grew to be one of the region’s most popular media figures. In 2007 she won the Miss Arabian Journalist award. In 2009, during Ramadan, she hosted a popular quiz show called Series Halema on MBC, which attracted large audiences and sparked controversy. She joined Funoon TV in 2011. She is Kuwaiti with Iranian ancestry. She married her university classmate Abdul-Salam Al-Khubaizi in the early 2000s and later divorced. In April 2024, she was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 2,000 Kuwaiti dinars for misusing revealing photos and videos on social media, but the appellate court canceled the punishment on June 9, 2024.
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