- Tonight, on the "Below Deck Sailing Yacht"
Season 4 Reunion.
- Whoa! Ball drop.
- I can take criticism.
- Really?
It's the Parsifal III crew together again.
- Nobody knows in the audience. Nobody knows this.
- Okay, you want to go back to that?
Why don't we go back to Season 2?
- Shocking new revelations.
Gary, I have to ask you about something
that was just about as cringey
as anything I've seen on "Below Deck."
- I was disgusted.
- I think our engine room is on fire.
[laughing] - Gary, get in there.
- Hey, Gary, panic! [laughter]
- Who's still hooking up with who?
- It was strange 'cause she would come
and climb into my bed every night
and try to have sex with me.
- Okay, kids, I think we're moving in the wrong direction.
- And a whole lot more.
- This is why the relationship turned toxic.
You can't reason with this woman.
- Daisy, come on.
- The "Below Deck Sailing Yacht" reunion
starts now.
Hey, everybody, welcome to the "Below Deck Sailing Yacht"
Season 4 reunion.
I am your host, Andy Cohen,
and unlike Parsifal III's engine this season,
I am ready to start.
We have a lot to talk about, so I want to dive right in
by welcoming Captain Glenn Shephard.
How are you doin', Captain Glenn?
- Very good, Andy. How you doing?
- Great. First things first.
Is Parsifal still up and running?
- She sure is. Yeah. We've had a lot of work done
in the engineering department,
and she's ready to go. I'm onboard.
- Very good.
Next up, it's Chief Stew Daisy Kelliher.
Where are you joining us from, Daisy?
- Hi. I'm in Spain at the moment.
- Lucky you.
Uh, great to see you.
Lots to talk about tonight, Daisy.
He was late to the charter season this year,
but is right on time tonight.
It is the Kissing Bandit, First Mate Gary King.
How you doin', Gary? - Hey, Andy.
I'm good, thank you. How are you?
- I am great.
I am really anxious to get into it with all of you.
Now let's welcome Chief Engineer Colin MacRae.
Wow, Colin, you found yourself
in the middle of some drama this season.
How are you feeling about-- about being here tonight?
- Um, I'm excited.
Just want to say my-- say my peace and--
And get this all behind us.
- By the way, where are you?
Because I want to be wherever it is you are.
I'm in French Polynesia in a remote atoll
in the Tuamotu Islands.
- Wow. Lucky you. Okay.
Uh, our next guest is also no stranger to boat-mance drama.
It's Junior Stew Mads Herrera.
Ready for your first reunion, Mads?
- Um, ready? I don't know.
I'm a little nervous, but, uh, yeah, let's get through it.
[laughs] - Okay.
Well, you look great, and I'm excited to talk to you.
- Thank you. - Let's say hi
to Parsifal's other Junior Stew Lucy Edmunds.
Hi, Lucy. Is your back fully healed
after your crazy fall?
- It's healed, but two big scars.
- Oh, my gosh.
All right, let's go on deck and welcome our deckhands.
First up, Captain Glenn's roomie, Alex Propson.
Uh, still reading your book on tantric breathing
and the male orgasm, Alex?
- I'm through three and four now, so--
- Wow! [laughing]
- I'm listening.
Uh, next, it's Deckhand Chase Lemacks.
Try not to get yourself in trouble tonight, okay, Chase?
- Okay, I'll do my best. I'm happy to be here.
I miss everyone.
- You have a dog on your backpack?
- This is Charlie. This is Charlie.
He's my homeboy. - Aw. Hey.
- He's ready for the tea. - Very good.
There's a lot that's going to be spilled.
Last, but certainly not least,
we have this season's talented Chef Ileisha Dell.
Where are you, Ileisha?
I'm in Byron Bay, Australia.
- Lucky you, but what time is it there?
- Yeah, it's 3:26 in the morning.
- Wow. Oh, my Gosh!
- What the hell? - Fuck!
- Wow.
Despite some issues in the love department,
which we're going to get into in a bit,
this crew genuinely seemed to enjoy spending time together,
even if sometimes they had a little too much fun.
Let's take a look.
- Here we go. [grunts]
[laughter]
[cheering] - Yeah!
[screaming] - Fucking unreal.
- Oh, no! [cheering]
[thud] - Fuck!
[yelling]
[laughter]
- I've had sex with Gary,
and I still wouldn't eat sushi off of Gary.
- Oh, my God. [laughter]
[cheering]
- I love it.
So let me just jump in with some viewer questions.
Captain Glenn, Carrie from California
wants to know how you like sharing a room with Alex
and if the water bottle left a bump.
- Dude, what's going on?
- Yeah, I'm still getting--
I'm still getting over the water bottle,
but, no, Alex was great to share with.
He was pretty-- Yeah, he was pretty good.
He didn't snore.
- Well, that's good. - Which is most important.
- For the ladies, uh, Kelly M. wants to know
if Chase really had the worst game of all time,
or was it just with this group?
- Uh, it's probably just with this group.
[laughter] - I don't know.
- Southern girls probably love him.
- Lucy, can you give me your imitation of him flirting?
- Do it! - "I'm Chase.
"Let me do a tequila shot between your boobs."
[laughter]
- It doesn't work here in the U.K. like that, Chase.
- No. No.
- Mads, Lisa T. wants to know your number one tip
for the perfect Instagram thirst trap.
- Ooh, um...
confidence. Just--
if you post whatever with confidence,
people are gonna find it hot.
- Ileisha, Max D. wants to know
if you've learned to put a lid on a blender
before you turn it on.
Well, that's shady. [chuckling]
- I actually, like-like, fully stuck a wooden spoon
in the blender, so it's no wonder
that that happened. It was just... yeah.
Uh, yeah, I guess I've learned. [chuckling]
- Daisy, what was your sister's take on the group?
I loved seeing her.
- I'm just happy that someone like you tolerates her.
- Oh, my God. I missed this.
- Where's tequila? [laughter]
- She loved everyone.
I mean, Bonnie's hard to not get along with.
- Alex, dare I ask which sister is the better kisser?
- Oh, God, um, no. That is--
That is a dare I ask. - Don't answer that.
- Wrong answer.
[laughing]
- Mads, who has the sexier manbun,
Gray or Alex? [laughing]
- Um... [chuckling]
I love the curly hair, so I have to say Alex.
- Colin, Greg D. wants to know how it feels to be
the MVP of the season when there was a chance
there might not even have been a season.
- Yeah, um, I mean, going through that
was absolutely horrible at the time.
But, uh, yeah, it makes--
makes me look okay this season, I guess.
- Chrissy Teigen's been posting up a storm
about how great this season has been.
I'm curious how you all have taken
celebrity fandom to the show
and if any have reached out to you.
- I've had a few celebrities reach out to me.
I'm not going to name drop. [overlapping excited chatter]
- Come on, Dais! - Give us names, Dais! Give us names.
- Well, Christina Applegate
reached out to me after I had seen her,
you know, she had a convo with Lee.
So, yeah, she's a huge fan of the show,
so that was really exciting.
And then, obviously, Chrissy.
- Well, in what may be a "Below Deck" first,
the stews all got along this season,
but the interior wasn't 100% smooth sailing
and Daisy found herself
stewing over beef with Captain Glenn.
Watch.
- Any time we're doing any kind of service in the tender,
she'll always be an interior.
- We can do a lot on the boat.
- If all the guests are off the boat,
I think we can afford to send one from each department.
- Can I get some of the green juice
that you guys made earlier? - Yeah.
- Can I get, um, a double espresso?
- Yeah. - And then can you add vanilla
and cinnamon to it? - Yeah, sure.
- Daisy. Daisy, can you give me a plate, please,
for our scrambled eggs?
- I'm this close to having a fucking meltdown.
- Hey, Daisy?
[sobbing quietly]
- What is the hold up between courses?
It's a little longer than I was expecting and we're--
- We're, like, massively trying our hardest
with the resources we're given.
- It's really important to talk about some of our shortcomings,
so that we can improve.
- That's obviously directed to me.
- Daisy, You don't have to get defensive about this stuff.
- I don't mean work harder,
but I definitely mean work smarter.
- So, Daisy, we saw you frustrated this season
on multiple charters.
What made this season more difficult for you?
- I've learned that I'm somebody
who either needs reinforcement or no comment.
- I have learned that I do not deal well
when I'm sleep deprived
and kind of getting this negative feedback.
For me, it just wasn't productive.
- Let me ask you this.
As an executive who sometimes gives negative feedback,
how would you recommend
your superior give you feedback
in order to-- for you to do better at your job?
- I think, you know, starting with the positive.
That's, like, kind of the-- the standard cliche.
I think...
Also, for me, the feedback just felt very minuscule--
- It felt personal. - Yeah, it felt very personal.
It felt very-- no, it felt irrelevant.
- It felt irrelevant?
- I'm-- yeah, I would love to have a stew
with the guests all the time.
That would be my absolute goal.
But I need to give a break.
If you don't want me to sleep, that's absolutely fine.
- Coming up...
- I feel Chase had to pick up a lot of slack.
- I think I learned more from Chase this season
- * Andy Cohen's got the 4-1-1 *
- King, king, of late night fun?
- I'm the king of late night fun.
You may not be aware.
- I know now. [laughter]
- All right, welcome back
to the "Below Deck Sailing Yacht"
Season 4 reunion.
I'm Andy Cohen here with Captain Glenn
and the "Parsifal III" crew.
Captain Glenn, do you think looking back
you set unrealistic expectations for Daisy
to always be with the guests,
or is she overreacting? - Being defensive.
- Right.
- I don't wanna say Daisy's defensive,
but I think let's-- I think that was my point
when I said I don't want you working harder.
Because Daisy's amazing, she works hard.
Everybody works hard on the boat. You can see that.
But I think there is a way that we can make sure
that somebody's there, if not every moment,
but within a couple minutes.
But you know, for example, 15 minutes is not good.
So that's the kind of thing I'd like to see improvement on.
But it doesn't mean that I'm not happy overall.
I mean, Daisy is amazing. I love working with Daisy,
and I'd love to work with her again in the future.
- But it seems like she can't take criticism.
How is she supposed to get better at her job
if you're not allowed to say what's not working?
- I can take criticism.
I think-I think-- - Really?
- You know, saying that to me now--
- You just said--
You just said that in order to criticize you,
you-- we have to give you a compliment first
and then like, rev up to it. - During the season, yes.
- Daisy, how did you not hear Gary radioing you
about the guest's injury?
[loud crash] - Ow. I am bleeding.
- I'd answer the door or the phone,
and my dad would be, like, on me...
- ...20 years old. - What the hell's goin' on?
- It seems like the response time was long.
- In that moment, I don't know,
maybe I didn't have my radio on me,
maybe I was ignoring it.
I actually think I turned down my radio.
That was it. I turned down my radio.
And I explained I do turn down my radio
when they're docking, 'cause there's a lot of traffic.
But-- which I shouldn't have done.
But also my point of the radios don't work
in the master and in the laundry
are also very valid, because they don't.
So, yeah, it was my fault.
- Glenn, is Daisy too flip about the radio?
- No, I mean, I think the whole point
about the radio is a good point.
You know, communications are always difficult on the boat.
That's fine. But I think there should have
been somebody in with the guests,
like, every minute or so.
Um, whoever heard that call, if Daisy didn't,
should have gone to Daisy and said, "Hey,
"I just heard something about somebody hurting themselves,"
and Daisy would have jumped on it immediately.
- I'm curious, Daisy,
Alana B. said you worked so hard as chief stew,
but do you ever feel like it gets overlooked
by Captain Glenn
because of his relationship with Gary?
- No, I don't think so.
I think Glenn very much acknowledges
and is aware of how much I do.
But possibly sometimes he's not aware
of what Gary doesn't do. Let's put it that way.
- Do you think-- what doesn't Gary do?
- Okay, good point.
- Um, Gary could probably manage better.
He could probably be better, so yeah.
This isn't about me, this is about Gary.
[laughing] - Daisy, do you think
he favors the deck team?
- I don't think Glenn favors the deck team.
I think, honestly, as a natural thing in yachting,
Glenn is more affiliated with the deck team.
He understands it more. Honestly, I don't think
he understands my department, and that's okay.
And I think that happens across multiple industries.
- So Glenn, do you understand what the stews do?
- Oh, I understand, of course. I guarantee you
Daisy has forgotten more about stewing than I'll ever know.
And I have a better idea of what Gary's up to.
I love Gary, he's my man, but I-- I try not to favor him.
Maybe I do subconsciously, I'm not sure.
- Okay, well, Glenn, when you watched the show back,
and you saw how stressed Daisy was
in certain situations,
did it make you maybe think...
you were wrong about any of your directives
in terms of sending stews out?
- I don't know if it made me wrong,
but I definitely felt like, um,
Lucy did not need to be there for the setup.
Gary and Alex could've gone. Chase and Alex could've gone.
And Lucy could've gone in with the guests.
I think that was a miscommunication.
So in a way I think we're both right.
I understand Daisy wants to take advantage
of having the stews on board when she could get a lot done.
I totally back that 100%.
But on the other side,
when the guests are on the beach,
I think they can have a reasonable expectation
of having full service, and that's all I'm--
that's the point I'm trying to make.
- I genuinely-- I definitely agree with you.
I think when there's service involved, 100%.
- Um, Gary, what do you say? - I've got to agree with Glenn.
I don't know, one of the few episodes I did watch,
I think Lucy was on the beach,
and they were trying to give guests chicken
or something like that.
Now you want guys to serve food?
- Oh, guys. Oh, guys, okay. So men can't serve food.
- That's so dumb. - That comment is kind of--
- But like Glenn said,
if you're serving food and drinks, et cetera,
um, yes, they would need an interior stew.
- Is it food and drinks or just drinks or just food?
Because there were times when it was just a beer,
and I still had to send a stew.
I mean, is there, like, a rule book
as to where can we go, can we gauge the situation?
- How long have you been working in yachts for, Dais?
I would love to come in and help serve,
but at the end of the day that's in your department.
We help each other out as much as we can.
- Okay, that's fine. Okay, next time wash down,
next time you need fenders,
I'm totally okay with sitting back.
That's absolutely fine. [laughter]
- Okay, kids, I think we're moving in the wrong direction.
- Oh, fuckin' hell, that's hilarious.
- Daisy, Ellen L. wants to know
why Glenn's constructive criticism affected you
so differently this season.
Why did you take it so personally?
- I think I was just tired, and I think, you know,
I wanna make Glenn, and I wanna make the guests happy.
And I-I felt like I was kind of banging my head
against a wall, like, I wanted to do better,
but I didn't know how.
So I was most angry with myself.
- Daisy, you were really rankled
when Colin, uh, sided with Glenn
during that tip meeting.
When you watched it back,
did you feel that he went as hard at you
as you did in the moment?
Like, did it play back as harshly as it felt to you?
Because you certainly had a big reaction,
and you were really upset.
- I don't think you should kick a man while they're lying down.
I think it was quite abundant to everybody
that I was very emotionally affected,
you know, to what was happening,
whether it was justified or not, you know.
It doesn't matter. That's the way I was feeling.
And I just-- I didn't really understand
what it had anything to do with him to be honest.
- Do you think Daisy overreacted, Colin?
- I think she was taking it much too personally.
And whether she believes it or not,
my comments weren't directly aimed at her,
because I had just finished talking to Mads
and Lucy about it while she was away,
but, yeah, I think she took it too personally, yeah.
- You know, to everybody else it might have been
just a comment from Glenn or a comment to Colin,
but I was just so--
you know, I'm not saying it was their fault in any way,
They didn't make me cry.
I was incredibly vulnerable at that moment.
I was tired, I was exhausted,
I was feeling a lot of pressure.
And, yeah, it just overtook me.
- One thing that was interesting,
I said it earlier, but, it was great to see
all the stews really getting along,
and I wonder, Daisy, if you think that part of
the harmony came from
you not designating a second stew and a third stew.
Do you think that that played a part
in their getting along better?
- No, I don't think it played a part
in this particular season with Mads and Lucy.
We just happened to be on the same page,
and it was-- the goal was to give the guests
an amazing experience and to get on.
I think it's all character difference.
- Lucy or Mads, what was your reaction
to there not being a second and third stew this season?
- I didn't care. - Yeah,
I was fine with it. [chuckling]
- So Ileisha, um, Lizzie R. wants to know,
"Since you work so closely with the stew team,
"what's your take on their performance this season?"
- I just think, um,
best interior team of all time.
I think they worked so well together,
me and Daisy got along so well, uh,
the communication was amazing, Mads and Lucy were incred--
I just couldn't fault it, to be honest.
I-I had such a good time with them.
- Glenn, what did you make of the first charter guest
saying it was, uh, the worst trip of their life...
and then leaving kind of a great tip?
- We had no toilet paper,
no towels, no bath mats.
Worst trip of my life.
- To be honest, I don't know if you can see
in my reaction, but when she came to talk to me,
I really thought she was gonna tell us how great it was.
When she started saying that this was wrong, that was wrong,
uh, you know, it seemed like they were trying to
pick at things. I think they were genuinely
and justifiably disappointed that we never left the dock
on a charter yacht, you know?
I think the girls did a pretty good job,
to be honest, from what I could see.
But I think they felt like they had to pick at something,
uh, but we always have to take that criticism seriously,
you know? We have to think about it,
we have to look at it and try to always do better.
- Lucy, you had moments where you flat-out wanted to quit
and leave the boat. Are you glad you stayed?
- No, I never wanted to quit. I just-- you're tired,
and who doesn't say in their everyday job as well,
oh, I'm done with this? We all have bad days.
And I'm just tired.
- Gary, Rose from Connecticut said,
when the crew is struggling to do dessert,
why do you think it's okay
for you to sneak off and have a cigarette
just after Daisy asked for all crew to help with dessert?
- Gary's gone for a cigarette.
Can all crew please come up to the fly bridge?
- Isn't that selfish?
- Um, yeah, I guess it was pretty selfish of me
to do something like that.
But I mean, if eight people can't set up dessert,
and they need me to be there, than fair enough.
But, yeah, I guess it was quite selfish.
- You're the face, Gary. - Well, no,
it wasn't about we needed you--
- But then as soon as I came up onto the sun deck,
all of you guys disappeared before the guests came up.
So I don't know why we all need to be up there.
- Because it's supposed to be
one of those bullshit illusion things being like,
oh, we care about you and your fucking dessert.
That's all you have to be there for, two minutes.
Then you can go and have yourself a fucking cigarette.
- Gary, let me ask you this,
regarding your working with the stews this season,
or not working with the stews,
is there anything you would change about your behavior,
looking back on the season?
- Uh, no, I think we all did a pretty good job.
I think we helped each other where we could.
Um... [laughing]
As much as I can remember of what happened in the season,
yeah, I think it was-- I thought it was a pretty good season.
It was one of the better seasons we've had, I thought.
- Daisy is laughing at you. - I thought the charters
went really well. - Ugh, yeah.
I've kind of learned to accept that it's never gonna change.
Um... yeah, I-I-- - What?
- I don't know, maybe I'm in the wrong. Maybe--
maybe I am too defensive. Maybe I'm in the wrong.
Maybe I need-- maybe I'm asking too much
from the deck crew. Maybe it's my fault.
Maybe... maybe it's me.
I feel like Taylor Swift. [laughing]
- Finally, Dais. Take accountability.
I'm playing. - I know, I know.
- Coming up...
- We don't need anyone panicking on the boat.
- So you just want to watch a fire burn on a boat,
- Welcome back
to the "Below Deck: Sailing Yacht" reunion.
I'm Andy here with Captain Glenn and the crew from Parsifal III.
So, Gary, you did not watch the show back this season?
- Andy, to be honest with you,
I haven't watched any season back.
Um, I should kind of-- at the end of the day,
I lived through it.
Um, there's no point in rewatch-- rewatching
what I lived through. - Some might argue
that you might change for the better or grow
by watching your behavior,
and seeing how other people view you.
- I think we've been given this really unique opportunity
in life that no one else has been given,
to be able to reflect, and grow, and watch ourselves.
I don't think the majority of the world has been
given that opportunity, and we were given
this opportunity to be the best version of ourselves,
and you just don't take it.
- I'm just here for the drama. That's all.
- Alex is nodding vigorously. What do you think, Alex?
[laughing]
- Well, I mean, everything is perspective.
That's the whole point of reality, is it's nine people
that are trying to work together,
that are all experiencing and seeing things
in different ways.
Yeah, perspective is-- I mean, that's the fastest
and most effective way to grow.
- All right.
Typically Gary is the one making the most trouble
during the charter season, but this year,
the award goes to Parsifal III's engine.
Take a look.
- The main engine's not starting.
- Son of a bitch. - We're not moving.
- If we can't start the engine, we're fucked.
- I don't even know what the best case scenario is.
- We have an issue with the main engine.
We're not going off the dock tomorrow.
- I can pull the engine-- eject it out.
- Okay. - And see which cylinders
were wet. - Right.
- And just start cleaning the shit out of the engine.
[clapping] - Fuck yes!
- Yeah, baby! Woo! - Oh, my God.
- That's amazing.
- Colin, shout out to you for being so great
at repairing the boat.
I mean, got a lot of fans tweeting their admiration
and awe of you.
It felt like you saved the day.
How many times did you think to yourself that
the charter season was over because of the engine, Colin?
- After that first one, for sure,
I thought it was game over.
Glenn and I were sitting there pretty much thinking it was--
it was a done deal.
Um, we couldn't get parts.
The engine was full of saltwater.
Um, but yeah, I can't take full credit.
Like, I was speaking to the previous engineers
of the boat as well and trying to troubleshoot
the whole thing.
Um, they obviously give a lot of useful information
because they had just brought the boat to Italy,
so it was a struggle but we got there in the end for sure.
- Here's a good question. Glenn, Nina S. wants to know
if Parsifal III goes through routine checks
before the season starts so that you could have picked up
on the potential engine failure that majorly impacted
that first charter.
- That's a very good point.
Somebody talked about that on social media.
Um, the boat had recently just crossed the Atlantic.
Had just been in.
The part that failed had just been serviced
and pressure tested. - Oh, wow.
- And, to be honest, that question they're asking,
if we do regular checks, uh, Colin specifically was
checking the engine when we discovered,
and luckily that gave us two or three days advance notice
of the problem, that if we had waited
and not checked it until the guests came on board,
we would have been three days behind.
- Colin, it looked like it was gonna be all smooth sailing
after you fixed the-the problem, but were you freaking out
when it started smoking a few charters later?
[alarm sounding] - Oh, fuck.
- Hey, that's the fire alarm going off in the bridge.
Can someone check it, please?
- Yeah, um, again, it's the shaft
inside the turbines snapping. That's just a freak accident.
And it took a long time to troubleshoot.
All we was was, like, oil dripping out of the turbine.
Um, but I have to say, there was--
we had a few strokes of good luck there.
Like, some certain things happen and getting certain parts,
and, uh, the nature of some of the failures
enabled us to carry on, but it could have been,
for sure, season-ending. For sure.
- Colin, why were you so annoyed when Gary barged
into the engine room when there was smoke?
- Look around everywhere if there's other smoke.
[indistinct].
- So, the engine the-- the engine room
is my department. Uh, I'd been--
I'd known about this issue for days.
Uh, I was monitoring it. I was right there
in the control room, and he just came down
in a bit of a panic and pushed one
of the cameramen out of the way.
- Move out my way, move out my way.
- It was just a little bit too frantic in my space.
That's how I feel about the engine room.
No one knows how that engine room runs
and what's going on in there like I do. No one.
So, that's-that's my space, and it's--
I'm in complete control of it, and I--
- Fair enough. I've worked on the boat for three years.
If there's a fire in the engine room,
you've gotta find out what's happening. Sorry, bro.
- Yeah, and I was watching it. That's the point.
So, uh, we don't need anyone panicking on the boat.
Uh, I had it under control, and voiced my concerns to him.
- I wasn't panicking.
Okay, yeah, you did.
So you just want to watch a fire burn on a boat,
basically, is that what you're saying?
- It wasn't a fire, Gary.
I don't know why you want to argue about this.
I was watching that exhaust that was burning off
a bit of smoke and the alarm went off.
[loud buzzing]
- Ow.
- Crazy sound.
- Sorry. - Yeah, very loud.
- Sorry. It's someone with a drill upstairs.
[laughing]
- Is that the construction in the building, Andy?
- I think our engine room's on fire.
[laughing] - Gary, get in there!
- Let's panic! Gary, panic! - Panic!!!
[laughing]
- Glenn, what's the status of Parsifal III?
Are-are all the issues of the boat fixed?
- We completely rebuilt that engine.
The only thing that still remained onboard
was the block. We took everything off,
pistons, connecting rods, valves, everything was rebuilt.
A lot of money has gone in, and a lot of work has been done
on all the mechanical systems onboard.
- By the way, I mean,
I kind of view Parsifal III as the Millennium Falcon,
kind of. - Who's Han Solo?
Am I Chewbacca? Anyway... - I'm Chewbacca.
- I guess that'd have to be Gary.
[laughing]
- We don't-- I think-- yeah, Alex is closest to Chewbacca.
But, yeah, I-I agree with you.
She always kind of pulls through.
- Coming up...
- Welcome back. I'm Andy here with the crew
from "Below Deck: Sailing Yacht."
Well, after some self doubt and criticism from Captain Glenn
early on, Chef Ileisha quickly proved
she is small but mighty,
pulling off everything from a ten course dinner
to sushi served on Gary's nude body.
Let's watch her in action.
- I'm noticing that Ileisha's definitely feeling the pressure
just because she's a little bit late with her service.
- Fuck. It's overcooked.
- That's devastating.
- I think they're gonna be finishing these quite quickly,
so I would start-- - I'm fucking behind.
- What is the holdup between courses?
It was a little longer than I was expecting.
- That's something I can always work on, for sure.
- She does nice work, doesn't she?
- That is so incredible. - Are they happy out there?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- They're very happy. - Those scallops are to die for.
They're so good. - Oh, my Gosh.
This is heaven. - O-M-- Oh, my God.
- Ileisha, I mean, you may be the most even-keeled yacht chef
of all time or in "Below Deck" history.
How are you able to handle every challenge
while keeping your shit together?
- Um, watching the show back,
I'm actually really surprised.
Like, I was not okay on the inside.
I don't know how I seemed okay and relaxed
on the outside.
You know, when you're just, like, in emergency mode
and then, like, somehow you're just calm.
Um, I think that's kind of what happened there.
- She nailed it. - Thanks, Glenn.
- What was the biggest challenge for you this season?
- To be honest, the toughest thing
that happened to me was just, like, burning my thumb.
Fuck me!
- Let's just try it, yeah.
- Oh...
- I know. I know. I know. I know.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- And then it was just like, everything was tough after that,
you know? Like, I had to get up earlier,
I didn't get to bed and I had to, like,
just look after my fuckin' thumb amongst it all, and...
- Um, you did have some timing issues.
Do you take responsibility for those
or do they lay with the stews?
- There's-there's a few different situations.
I think I was definitely not--
not quick enough on the turnover,
but also getting to understand
the way that it works when there's cameras involved.
You know, it's like,
the plates literally want to be ready
and going out as one course is coming in.
And I just didn't quite understand that.
And it took time for me to adjust
and try and get better at that.
Um, yeah, totally take responsibility for that.
Stews are amazing. They didn't do anything wrong.
- Chase, How much were you freaking out
when you were eating that cake
and you found out that the guests wanted more?
- That's really good, Ileisha.
- All I'll say is, I'm not the only person
who ate the cake. You know what I mean?
- Daisy, do you regret sharing it
with the rest of the crew
when the guests weren't in bed yet?
- Yeah, I fucked up.
I take that. [laughing]
Actually, it wasn't like straight away.
It had been a while, but, yes, it was my fault.
- Uh, that was also my fault. - So dumb.
- It was a bit of a joint fuck-up there, I reckon.
- Colin, do you regret, um,
telling Ileisha that, uh,
Chef Marcos was on another level last season?
I-- were-- like, were you trying to give her a pep talk,
or freak her out?
- Definitely was trying to freak her out.
Uh, yeah, I feel really bad about that.
That's never a nice thing to, uh, to hear.
Yeah, I feel bad. - Me too.
- Glenn, what was your favorite meal of Ileisha's?
- There was that time when I ate with the guests
where everything that came out was just--
it blew me away.
So, I think maybe it was that--
- Aww... - Caribbean?
Was that the Caribbean dinner? That was amazing.
- Thank you. - Chicken pot pie, baby!
- I knew you were going to say that!
- That chicken pot pie was dirty!
[laughing]
- Ileisha, are you still with your same boyfriend?
Because I was rooting for you and Chase to get together.
- No boyfriend, no Chase and I.
Single and ready to mingle.
- Is there hope for you and Chase
or are we all giving this up?
- I think we've given up.
- Yeah. Just really good friends.
We're all better as friends.
- You're better as friends. You two gave it a go--
- After the show finished filming,
you know, I went home and ended things with my boyfriend.
And then, like, Chase and I just were there for each other,
and he supported me through a lot of hard times.
You know, we kind of went back and forth.
He came to Australia, you know, I've been to America
a couple of times. I even went to Charleston.
- Wow! Okay.
- Whoa, ball drop! - Look, I mean, the reality--
the reality of it is-is-is... [snickering]
- Is Ileisha's one of the most amazing people I've ever met.
But we live on the opposite ends of the world,
like, Australia and Charleston
couldn't be farther from each other.
You know, I think there's nothing but love there.
But yeah, we're just friends to this day.
- Well, due to COVID, Gary had to join the season late
and once he arrived, his deck team never seemed to click,
with tensions running high throughout their time on board.
Take a look. - What's happenin'?
- I did the foredeck for you.
- Everything's clean? - Everything.
- Cleaned everything... my ass.
- This is definitely not the first time
I'm picking up the slack for Alex!
Can I speak to you about the boat this morning?
- Yeah. Yeah, looks like shit, eh?
- If it's cool with you, I'm just going to
speak with him about it myself.
- No, I'll have a chat to him, bro.
- All right, tell me how great I am.
- Chase was not happy this morning.
- Were you upset with the boat this morning?
- There is food all over the floor where they're sitting.
- Suck it up, buttercup.
[chuckling]
- It's pissing me off that Gary is making me
look like a tattletalin' bitch!
Going forward,
I'm gonna try to include him as little as possible.
- Might be better if we cut out the little middleman.
- Gary, if you're watching the show, um,
which I know you didn't, it kind of seemed like
you came onto the boat with guns blazing for Chase.
[snickering] Um...
Do you feel like you came at him with the same energy
that you came at Alex, or what?
What was it about him that rubbed you the wrong way?
- Ah, fuck, I dunno. [laughing]
- Coming up...
You also seem quite hypnotized by large breasts.
- What are you saying, Andy?
- We are back
with the "Below Deck Sailing Yacht" reunion.
Gary, what was it about Chase that rubbed you the wrong way?
- Ah. Fuck, I dunno. Um...
- It's fine. - Chase, I'm not gonna say
you rubbed me the wrong way, but I don't ever think
I've met someone with quite a strong personality
like Chase. Um, to be honest,
he's very full-on, but very good at his job.
And I think...
I think maybe there was a bit of a personality conflict
in the beginning, but, um, I think--
well, I remember, at least through the season,
we ended up on a high,
and it's not how you start with someone,
it's how you end with them.
And I think Chase and I ended very well,
so that's what I'll take out of it.
- Yeah, to jump in on that,
some of my best friends to this day hated me
when they met me,
so I am an acquired taste,
and I don't blame Gary, you know?
And Gary is an acquired taste, too, let me tell ya.
So, you know, it's like he said, we ended up good.
No hard feelings, buddy.
- By the way, what--
You know, was there a moment that you saw this season,
Chase, of yourself that made you cringe?
- Oh, yeah. All the way through.
Oh, my God. [laughing]
You know, the jokes that-that land back in South Carolina
with my guy friends maybe don't land, uh,
with the ladies in Europe. - No!
- And I, you know--
- They shouldn't land with anyone.
[laughing]
- I don't care about the comment.
I didn't care about the comment.
It was the fourth time in an Italian restaurant like that.
- You were on 100 that night, like, it was bound to happen.
- It was a lot. It wasn't just that,
It was all day long and all season,
I was being a little bit much.
It was definitely a pivot moment for me.
- You were excited, you were very, very excited.
- You also seem quite hypnotized by large breasts.
[laughing]
- What are you saying, Andy?
- Yeah, Where does that come from?
That's kind of weird, Chase.
None of us other guys are like that at all.
- Glenn, Mary F. wants to know
if you believe that Chase actually did his best
when it came to rinsing off the seabob,
or was he bullshitting a bullshitter,
like Gary said? [laughing]
- Uh, I think maybe Chase didn't have a lot of experience
with seabobs, and didn't understand that there might be
sand inside, and so I'm gonna cut him some slack,
but I do wanna say, uh, I saw Chase on a recent episode
and I was really impressed. They were talking about, uh,
somebody going in the jacuzzi with guests,
and I thought Chase handled that perfectly,
and also in that same episode,
which I thought he was the star of,
when he, uh, apologized for the off-color comments
to Lucy, I was very proud of him.
- Chase is redeeming himself!
- Thank you, Glenn. - Woo!
- Gary, Rebecca T. wants to know your response
to Colin saying you needed to just man up
when it came to managing Chase.
Do you think you have a problem
with your management skills?
- Um... fuck. Jesus.
Interesting question.
Um, I mean, Colin likes to stir the pot,
so he'll do anything he can to try and get involved
in the drama.
Uh, managing Chase, I promise, I don't think
anyone's going to find that easy.
No offense, Chase.
Um, but like I said, we started off
with a rocky start, but ended well.
So obviously-- it obviously worked out for the best.
- I don't know how it's stirring the pot
when I'm saying something to his face when he's asking me
what he thinks he should do in that situation.
But yeah, I stand by that.
I think he needed to man up a little bit,
because he was bitching to me about it
instead of talking to Chase about it, which is...
what would have solved the problem
a little bit earlier.
- Glenn, what's your overall take
on the deck team's performance this year?
- Uh, well, I was quite impressed.
Uh, you know, it wasn't perfect,
but it never is in this industry.
And overall, I think, you know, again,
I think we had a great season.
So, yeah, I think that I'm proud of the deck team.
- I want to dig in to Alex and Chase's kind of...
work ethics.
Um, after working with them all season,
Gary, what do you think is the biggest difference
in how Chase and Alex work?
Um, Honestly, I thought Chase gave 150% every day.
Every minute he was awake.
Alex was just quite happy to be there,
um, and get along with-- with it.
Kind of coming with the ride, and I feel Chase had to pick up
a lot of slack, and he's just that type of person.
- Um, I think Chase does have an incredible work ethic.
I think that's something we both pride ourselves on.
There was a lot of work to be done
on essentially a two-man deck team,
and you know, we have very different styles.
Chase is very up in your, you know, face about things.
I think I learned more from Chase this, uh, season
than pretty much anybody else.
So he's knowledgeable, he works extremely hard.
And when I have clear direction
and constructive criticism, I think I can match that.
But I didn't receive a ton of that.
So a lot of the times I was left
to just kind of pick up the pieces
and hope this is what they were expecting.
- So Gary, he clearly was looking, uh,
for more clear direction from you,
and he said he learned more from Chase than he did from you.
What's your response to that?
- Uh, maybe fair enough. But he's a captain of yachts,
in wherever, Fort Lauderdale or wherever it is,
so to become a captain of yachts,
you've gotta work up the ranks.
So how do you not know anything if you managed
to be a captain?
- Gary, you can't compare a captain of a 20-foot yacht
to a captain of 150-foot yachts.
- A yacht's a yacht! - No, that's not true.
- If I get a [indistinct],
and then I'm like, Chief Stew on a 20-meter.
Am I gonna be like, okay, you can be a Chief Stew
on a 60-meter? No, you can't.
That's not fair.
- After every single charter, we would-- we would have
a team meeting, um, where it's, you know, it's the opportunity
for constructive criticism, and here's what we did wrong,
here's how to change it, here's how to
do it differently next time.
And every time we had a team meeting,
all we would hear is, "Yeah, guys,
"I think charter went really well.
"Yeah, let's clean up the boat and you know,
"I'll crack the beers," and then that's all we had.
So by the time, you know-- - Yeah, 'cause I felt
the charters went really well. - There was nothing to change.
So it feels weird to come back now here
a year later and be like, "Oh yeah, the work ethic
"wasn't there and we needed to do better at this,"
when all we heard the whole time was,
"Hey, you guys are doing great." - No, I didn't say
it wasn't there, I just said Chase was just so much better.
- "Keep up the great work.
"You know, let's get the trash off
"and, you know, I'll have beers open."
- Yeah, but at the end of the day,
the charters went well, and Andy asked me
what was the difference between Chase and Alex.
Chase has a work ethic, like, 150%,
and Alex is just happy to be there,
and that's how I thought. But the charters
went really well, so I couldn't-I couldn't--
- Gary, why did you lie to Alex regarding Chase being
super, super upset about how the boat was in the morning?
- I guess that's poor management from my point over there.
It's kind of putting two deck crew members against each other,
and I apologize for that. - What I will say about Gary is
Gary really does care about the success
of the charter season and the guest experience.
No one can argue that. He really does care, right?
But I think one of his shortcomings
is that he's not very collaborative.
In the future, I think, you know,
you just get the deck team together when we're both awake
and that's when you talk about it.
Like, "Hey, how did you feel? How do we improve?
"How do we go past this?" instead of doing
a one-on-one telephone game, you know?
- Right. Thanks, Chase, I appreciate that,
and I will take that into consideration for future.
Yeah, you learn from your mistakes. Yeah.
- I got plenty of them, brother. Plenty of mistakes.
- Coming up...
- It was strange 'cause she would come
and climb into my bed every night
and try to have sex with me. - Fuckin' please.
- And we're back with the gang from "Below Deck."
Mads, Frank J. wants to know if you ever thought
that Gary's romantic entanglements
affected his performance as chief officer this season.
- Um, I think that can be said for anyone.
When you get involved in a relationship,
you're giving energy to something besides your work.
It's why they say don't screw the crew.
[laughing]
- Glenn, you love working with Gary.
What do you-what do you love about him as a chief officer?
- Um, I-I like his attitude.
I like his knowledge. I mean, he knows boats,
he knows sailboats, he knows sailing.
And, you know, maybe this season,
it didn't work out with her, but I think he's a good leader.
I think he has a lot of qualities.
I think it'd probably benefit him to watch the whole season
because I think he's the kind of guy
that will learn from it
and come back even stronger.
- Well, over the years, Gary has engaged
in his fair share of love triangles,
but this season he may have met his match
with Mads,
who drove him mad all season,
especially when she cozied up to Alex. Watch.
- I dare Chase to kiss Mads. - [yells]
- I know Alex and I both like Mads.
- The ball's in her court, you know?
- I came late. You guys have already hooked up,
so I can't go and chase a chick now.
- I don't buy that shit.
- At the end of the day, fuck 'em.
They're just deckhands.
- I would have rather not made out with Gary, at all.
But Alex was very, very, very drunk,
and, uh, a girl needs her needs met.
[laughs]
- Oh, hello. [giggles]
- I'm not, like, in love with Gary.
Like, it's just casual sex to me.
'Sup? - You're pathetic.
- Gonna call me pathetic for fuckin' what?
Why call me pathetic for-- - I have--
I have no recollection of that, and I'm--
Chase told me this morning and I'm really sorry about that.
- Oh, my God, Gary.
- You kissed me the first night, thank you very much.
- You kissed me on the first night, dog.
- That's why she was like,
"Ugh, I've really got to do better with my life.
- If I was really trying to go for better,
I would have made out with Alex after.
- Oh!
- Yes, Alex finally made a move.
- Um, so Mads-- - Ooooh.
- People seem to think that you're foolish
for falling for Gary, but it looked like
you were 100% in control of the situation.
What do you say to the doubters?
- Um, yeah, to the doubters, you don't know me.
I am a very detached kind of person,
and I like to stay in control of situations,
and I personally felt in control of the situation, so...
- Gary, Alicia A. wants to know, "How can you say
"that you were led on by Mads when she was always clear
"that you two were just having fun?"
- It was strange because she would come
and climb into my bed every night
and try and have sex with me.
So that's what was-- - Oh, please.
- That's what puzzled my mind, really,
to be quite honest with you. - Oh, fuckin' please.
You're really going to say that?
- Well, that's exactly what happened,
as far as I remember. - Okay.
- I went to bed a few times and you decided
to jump into my bed. - I'm not even gonna argue
'cause he hasn't watched the season,
and to watch the season, like, that's when
you take accountability, so... - Oh, no, don't get me wrong,
I was into you, Mads, by all means.
I'm not going to deny that. - I'm not saying you weren't.
Just don't say that I was... - But I remember a few--
- ...the one initiating all of it, please.
- I remember a few times, I went to bed,
and you came and climbed into my bed.
- You lame?
- Anyway, that's what I remember of it.
- Okay, sure. - Okay.
- Gary, it is interesting that you were confused
about her intentions because, I mean,
there was a rather savage montage
that the editors played
of her being very clear,
saying, "I just want to have fun."
I mean, frankly, she was-- she kind of felt like
the female Gary in a weird way.
I mean, she was like-- she was being very clear.
- No, I'm not the female Gary 'cause I'm very direct.
I said it straight from the start, like--
and throughout the whole time. "I am having fun."
That has, like-- if you didn't understand that,
I'm sorry. I tried.
- Coming up in part two
of the "Below Deck: Sailing Yacht" reunion.
- Gary, I have to ask you about something
that was just about as cringey as anything
I've seen on "Below Deck." - I was disgusted.
- Who's still hooking up with who?
- It's important to all of us to stay really good friends.
- Friends with benefits? - No, friends.
- The other-- wait, I don't know if I'm allowed to say that.
- Daisy, Gary and Colin square off.
- No, no, no, that's not what ----ing happened.
- Let me finish. - We can't talk over you, Dais,
but whenever we're having a conversation,
then you're quite happy to interrupt us.
- All the drama that went down after the season ended.
- This is why the relationship turned toxic.
You can't reason with this woman.