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Orange Is the New Black can add another model to its ranks of inmates. Though she won’t appear in any episode of Season 5, French model and personality Nabilla Benattia has filmed a scene with the ladies of Litchfield. The clip, which is now on Benattia’s Twitter, gives us a taste of what life would be like if the reality star was an inmate, and honestly, it’s great.
Described as the Kim Kardashian of France, Benattia achieved mainstream popularity through her appearances on L’Amour est aveugle (Love is blind), Hollywood Girls, and her own show, Allo Nabilla (Hello Nabilla). However, she’s perhaps best known for her one-liner, “Non, mais allô quoi,” which roughly translates to “Hello? Is anyone there?” She first said the phrase on les Anges de la télé-réalité, which is like a French Big Brother that sends its contestants to different parts of the world. Benattia is so well known for her catchphrase, she’s had it trademarked and it has become a recognizable meme.
However, what makes her a prime guest star for Orange Is the New Black is her arrest record. The model was sentenced to six months in prison for committing fraud in 2009. In 2014 she had another run-in with the law, this time for stabbing her boyfriend with a knife during an argument. She was sentenced to another six months in jail, but don’t worry. She and boyfriend Thomas Vergara reconciled before the trial.
According to the French publication Purepeople, Benattia visited the set of the Netflix show last December. Though she didn’t film anything that’s included in Season 5’s 13 episodes, she did star in a bonus scene which was published on social media. The scene follows Taystee (Danielle Brooks), Black Cindy (Monica Hayes), and Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” (Uzo Aduba) getting to know Litchfield’s newest inmate, the fiery and French Benattia. What’s Benattia in for, you ask? Killing her boyfriend with her bare hands.
The scene is a little more than two minutes long, but it’s a lot of fun, adding a dose of celeb-reality drama into the one show on prestige TV that can relate to it the most. Netflix, if you want to continue dropping webisodes starring Benattia, I won’t complain.
