
Tumi Mhlongo, Kyle Viljoen, Natalya Scudder. Bravo (3)
Kyle Viljoen‘s shady feedback about Natalya Scudder on Below Deck Mediterranean are making Tumi Mhlongo query her friendship with him.
Bravo supplied a glimpse on Monday, October 23, at an upcoming episode the place Kyle and Natalya throw digs at one another.
In the clip, Natalya pokes enjoyable at Kyle’s habits in entrance of constitution visitors, saying, “Kyle is lounging again.” Later, Kyle tells Tumi that she’s fortunate to not be sharing a room with Natalya.
“Natalya can talk. You can be so glad,” he notes earlier than Tumi asks, “That I’m not rooming with her?”
In a confessional, Tumi admits she has considerations about how Kyle speaks about her when she isn’t round, including, “I thought they were friends but if he is talking s—t about her he is definitely talking s—t about me.”

Season 8 of Below Deck Mediterranean initially launched Natalya because the short-term chief stew whereas Tumi and Kyle had been coping with immigration points. While off the boat, Tumi and Kyle shaped a friendship which continued as soon as they formally began working collectively.
However, Tumi’s relationship with Natalya has confronted loads of challenges. Natalya was beforehand at odds along with her season 7 chief stew Natasha Webb and Kyle earlier than patching issues up with the latter as soon as they stopped filming. After a tough introduction to Natalya, Tumi warned Kyle that she wasn’t afraid to face her floor along with her inside crew.
“Giving you a heads up b/w us. I know you’re mates with her, but Nat needs to stay in her lane bc Tumi losing her s—t will end up in her walking off bc she had a diva moment,” Tumi wrote in a textual content in the course of the October 9 episode, to which Kyle responded, “I’m sorry to hear this — I did tell you she’s something that came for all of us.”
As Tumi’s points with Natalya bought worse, Kyle stepped in to aim to mediate the state of affairs. He advised Natalya about Tumi’s textual content to him, which Natalya then talked about to Captain Sandy after an argument along with her chief stew.
“You’re in a leadership role and you need to rise above and figure this out because right now I am ready to put you both off the boat,” Sandy advised Tumi about learn how to deal with the state of affairs.
The captain elaborated on her response to the drama, telling cameras on the October 16 episode, “You have to respect each other in the workplace. You can’t do this. This is behavior that can’t happen. In this situation I need to defuse it but then you need to step away and let the leader handle it. Because if I draw the line for them, they are never going to respect each other. Having said that, if I hear Natalya screaming at Tumi again and Tumi can’t defuse it, then I need to step in and make a decision.”
During his personal confessional, Kyle admitted that he had regrets about getting concerned.
“I love [some] good gossip. But I am realizing that my involvement has made the situation worse. I shared with Tumi how my time went with Natalya [during season 7]. And Tumi’s response was, ‘I know you’re mates with her, but she needs to stay in her lane. Tumi losing her s—t will end in her walking off because she had a diva moment,’” he detailed. “I am really good at getting information. My biggest problem? I am not good at keeping the information. It’s not good. Trust me, I know.”
Tumi and Natalya had been finally in a position to make amends, whereas Kyle nonetheless discovered himself caught within the center on account of his particular person friendship with every coworker.
“Although I love a good tea and I am glad that Natalya and Tumi made up about the text message — I am just not happy with Natalya,” he stated. “Informing Sandy and using my name in that … Me revealing Tumi’s message to Natalya was an act of friendship. It wasn’t for Natalya to weaponize me against other people.”
Kyle concluded: “There’s only room for one gossip on this boat right now and that’s me. I am the tea queen. Self-proclaimed.”
Below Deck Mediterranean airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
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