Below Deck’s Captain Lee Called Sandoval a ‘Poor Man’s Johnny Depp’

Captain Lee isn’t simply caught up on Below Deck drama — he additionally has loads of ideas on Tom Sandoval‘s Vanderpump Rules dishonest scandal with Raquel Leviss.

Kate Chastain teased Captain Lee’s intensive Bravo sizzling takes whereas discussing their upcoming sequence Couch Talk with Captain Lee and Kate.

“He surprisingly did have passionate thoughts about Scandoval,” she instructed E! News on Monday, July 31, about her former Below Deck costar, 73. “He said that Sandoval was the poor man’s Johnny Depp and I was like, ‘Look at you Captain Lee with your finger on the pulse of pop culture.’ It’s hilarious.”

Many Bravo stars weighed in when Tom’s affair with Raquel, 28, made headlines earlier this 12 months. Us Weekly confirmed in March that Tom, 41, and Ariana Madix referred to as it quits following practically a decade of courting attributable to his infidelity.

At the time, Kate, 40, weighed in on the drama, tweeting, “Ariana & I are from the same town so I ran into her and Tom at a bar at Thanksgiving. It was only my 1st season of BD so I guess I wasn’t ‘cool enough’ b/c a mutual friend introduced us & Tom Sandoval ignored me. he was too busy fixing his hair in a mirror on the wall #PumpRules.”

The former chief stew, who appeared on Below Deck from 2014 to 2020, later slammed Tom’s bombshell feedback about his break up from Ariana, 38.

“Can you imagine the call with his PR team after this 😭,” Kate captioned a clip by way of Twitter from Tom’s April look on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. “‘Well Tom … we’ve seen the interview … at least you didn’t kill anyone. Well Tom … we’re not sure this is going to move the needle like you thought, but you did seem comfortable and confident in your answers.’”

Kate has been sharing her ideas on all issues Bravo since her exit from Below Deck. She initially joined the community’s Chat Room sequence in 2020 alongside The Real Housewives of Potomac‘s Gizelle Bryant, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams and Summer House‘s Hannah Berner.

After a short-lived stint on the discuss present, Kate hinted on the causes behind her departure.

“I didn’t really feel like explaining my reason for leaving Bravo’s Chat Room immediately after I left because I just felt like if I told the truth about why I left, people would assume I was just giving an excuse, but truth does always eventually come out,” she solely instructed Us Weekly in May 2021. “Sometimes it happens quicker than you think it’s going to. [Bravo has] been very wonderful and generous to me, and they handled the situation the way that was best for me, and I’m really thankful for that.”

Kate moved on with appearances on Bravo’s ongoing sequence Below Deck: Galley Talk. She may even break down the largest moments from the community’s giant choice of actuality TV on Couch Talk With Captain Lee and Kate later this month.