Eva Longoria: Compassion built into the DNA of the UAE

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Eva Longoria: Compassion built into the DNA of the UAE. Ahead of her third annual charity gala in Dubai, tabloid! sat down with actress, producer and political activist Eva Longoria, before she headed to the Global Gift Foundation event at the Four Seasons on Saturday. She spoke to us about her charity work, her new TV show, and why she loves Dubai.  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00The Eva Longoria Foundation helps young women through educational programs and entrepreneurial

00:16programs and making sure they have economic mobility in their life.

00:21We do the global gift galas all over the world to help raise funds for different organizations

00:27and charities in the places in which we hold them, Paris, London, Marbella, Dubai, Cannes,

00:35Mexico.

00:36And so it's just basically about connecting the dots and charities and awareness and raising

00:41funds for all of these amazing causes.

00:44Well, we have different performers and this year we have Terrence Howard from Empire who

00:52is an amazing singer.

00:54So that's just a special treat, anytime anybody gets to see him perform, I'm very excited

00:59about that.

01:00You know, Terrence and I have been friends for over 15 years and so, yeah, we call him

01:09and say, get over here.

01:12And no, he's a dear friend and he's a big supporter of us.

01:16He's been a supporter from the beginning.

01:18He's come to Spain, he's come to Cannes, and so we know we can always count on him and

01:23he's an amazing entertainer as well.

01:29Actually we just launched a new program with Mexico, so we're going to be testing out a

01:34pilot program for parental engagement programs in Mexico and we're very, very excited about

01:40that because that's allowing us to scale the programs we have in the United States outside

01:46of it.

01:47I have a new TV show called Telenovela coming out January 4th in the States and then available

01:56online.

01:57A super funny comedy about behind the scenes of a telenovela, which is a Spanish soap opera,

02:03and I play the star of a Spanish soap who doesn't speak Spanish and so all of this comedy

02:07ensues.

02:08A lot of physical comedy, it's big and broad and it's just so much fun to watch.

02:16I love coming to Dubai because compassion is in the DNA of the UAE.

02:24Taking care of your own, taking care of each other.

02:28It's ingrained historically that it's a very kind, loving, compassionate place to be and

02:35so we just extend that to philanthropy and you have a perfect recipe for success.

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