Gary Dourdan of CSI fame (yes ladies, the mega hot Warrick Brown!) is in Dubai to play some gigs with his band Bell Café.

Ahead of the first gig at Cavalli Club's Hallowe'en party on Oct 30th, we caught up with Gary to find out more...

 

Why are you in Dubai and how long for?

I'm here with my band Bell Café and we're here to do some gigs at the Cavallli Club. I also got a movie at the Dubai International Film Festival so I'll be staying around for that too. I just want to see what this city is about, you know? We're here to rustle things up a little.

So is the Cavalli show your first official gig since you reunited?

We've played some small sets, but we haven't toured as a band so this would be the first official ‘tour gig', I suppose.

Why Dubai?

I had been bumping elbows with Cavalli's crew over the years and we had been interested in doing something with these guys for a while now.

So you've met Roberto Cavalli?

Yeah, I mean, I've been really fortunate in regards to designing because my mother's a designer, my sister's got her designing thing going on so I was always in to designing, then I started trying to do my own thing but uh, they were good from afar but far from good.

And what changed?

Well then I started going to Paris and Italy, before I started working on CSI and I met these designer guys and models and started to get a better idea of things and then I met Cavalli and those guys and that opens you up to a lot.

What do you think of the Cavalli Club?

The Cavalli club in Italy is great, I was there when they first opened it but Cavalli Club Dubai blows that one away by far. By far.

 

Really? How so?

Well I'm in to architecture and I love the architecture in there and when I walked in there's just Swarovski crystals everywhere, I was like wow. I mean how do these things not get stolen, you know? How are the girls who come to this place not taking these things and wearing them, you know? Bling bling to go!

 

We are all about the bling in Dubai, but sometimes it can be done badly.

Yeah it's one thing I might have expected, because people like bling in Hollywood, but there's bling and then there's bling without any class or style, you know? So I was really impressed with the way Cavalli Club have done that.

 

Which celebrity have you met and not been keen on?

You know what? There's so many people who just aren't real in ‘Hollyweird /Hollywhack!. Um, I wasn't too impressed with Michael Bay (Transformers director) when I met him. I was at a dinner with this guy and he wasn't being cool, you know? I was like, look, dude, if you cut yourself, it would be red, it wouldn't be blue. You're just the same as the rest of us.

 

Who is your major celebrity crush?

There's so many beautiful leading ladies it's difficult to choose. I could take some time to think about this one.  Halle Berry is definitely up there, Meagan Good is really starting to get noticed, she's hot. Of course Angelina Jolie but that girl is not just hot because of her beauty and her charity work and her attitude, but she's a just bad boy in a girl's body.

  

What's been your best/weirdest moment in your career?

The Obama inauguration. I missed the party when he was voted in because I was in Paris so when he had the inauguration I made sure I was there. It was incredible. Every person who has ever been a rock star was there. Afterwards we ended up back at Prince's house - back at Prince's house! - and Prince is there jamming in the corner, Stevie Wonder was on the piano, Sam Jackson was in the corner. It was like, the best night of my life!

 

You have two kids, would you say you're a good dad?

I think so, but that's probably something you'd have to ask them. I'm not really a disciplinarian. I'd rather expose my kids to as much as possible and let them decide for themselves.

 

Are you single right now?

No, I've actually just started dating someone, she's called Maria, she's Spanish and it's great. I mean it's very, very new, but we're having a good time.

How new?

Oh new. I mean, we still have the warranty.

So what does Maria do?

She's an artist but I'm trying to kind of push her in to other avenues and she's here in Dubai with me so I think she's going to do a bit of modeling while she's here, which will be great for her.