Captain Lee Rosbach. Charles Sykes/Bravo
Captain Lee Rosbach is “mortified” by the actions that led to Luke Jones and Laura Bileskalne’s firing on season 2 of Below Deck Down Under.
“Their behavior was despicable,” Lee, 73, solely tells Us Weekly. “Both of them. And I’m sure they’ll be paying the price for it for a long time to come. As they should.”
During back-to-back episodes of the Bravo sequence that aired on Monday, August 7, Luke, 32, got here beneath hearth when he climbed into Margot Sisson’s mattress bare after the facility went out on the yacht. Producers stepped in after Luke tried to make a transfer on Margot and he was later despatched to a lodge earlier than being fired by Captain Jason Chambers the subsequent day.
“We had an incident last night and I want to stress that this is a place where we respect each other. Our cabin is our safety zone. That door is our boundary,” Jason instructed the crew. “That door is not to be opened unless it is consensual. To walk into someone else’s room without consent [while] indecent is my limit.”
Luke wasn’t the one crew member despatched packing on Monday’s episode. Laura additionally discovered herself in sizzling water for defending his actions, which prompted Chief Stew Aesha Scott to inform Jason, 50, about Laura’s personal lack of boundaries with costar Adam Kodra. When Adam confirmed that he felt uncomfortable round her, Laura was additionally let go. (She has since issued an apology to each Adam and Margot.)
Lee, who watched the episode as a viewer, tells Us he was “impressed” with manufacturing, Captain Jason and Chief Stew Aesha for “not getting rattled” and as a substitute dealing with the incident “calmly.” He believes Jason “absolutely” made the precise resolution — and isn’t positive he would have stored his composure if confronted with the identical scenario.
“I don’t know if I would have had the wherewithal to remain as calm as Captain Jason did, but he certainly stepped up to the plate and did it right,” Lee notes, including that he’s “grateful” to have by no means encountered an analogous battle throughout his personal charters.
“It’s a tough spot to be in,” he explains. “When there’s the captain you’re responsible for everything and anything that does happen. Jason handled it superbly.”
Since the episodes aired, Aesha and Jason have obtained an outpouring of help on social media for a way they approached the incident — one thing Lee agrees with wholeheartedly.
“I think [the fans’] reaction is justified and their praise for not only production, but for Aesha, and for a Captain Jason, as well,” he says. “They all stepped up to the plate and did the right thing at the appropriate time and didn’t let anything get carried away. Didn’t put it on the back burner, didn’t cover it up. They just dealt with it appropriately.”
As for Margot and Adam, Lee lends them his full help.
“I have nothing but the best wishes for Margot and Adam. I have nothing but respect for [them] and I certainly feel sorry for both of them because neither one of them deserved to be put in that position,” he tells Us.
Lee was a mainstay on the unique Below Deck sequence since its premiere in 2013. He exited the present previous to season 11 — a reveal that shocked him as a lot because it did viewers.
“That came right out of left field. I did not see that one coming at all,” he solely instructed Us in May, revealing that the community didn’t give an actual cause for the choice on the time.
Luke Jones and Laura Bileskalne. Bravo (2)
“We would like to move in a new direction,” Lee recalled being instructed about his exit, which occurred offscreen. “But I mean, that’s kind of a cliche that everybody uses when they find themselves in that situation where they’re going to let somebody go. ‘I’m going to move in a new direction. We want to freshen it up a little.’ [They are] tired cliches that get overused.”
Lee initially left throughout season 10 of Below Deck to deal with his well being points. He was changed by Below Deck Mediterranean’s Captain Sandy Yawn earlier than returning to complete out the constitution season. In February, Us broke the information that Lee would get replaced by Below Deck Adventure’s Captain Kerry Titheradge for season 11.
While Bravo introduced in July that Lee and former Chief Stew Kate Chastain could be breaking down the community’s largest TV moments every week of their new present, Couch Talk With Captain Lee and Kate — which premieres Monday, August 14 — Lee hasn’t dominated out returning to the Below Deck franchise if the chance arises.
“I certainly don’t want to be somewhere where I’m not wanted. But if I were invited back, I think I’d take another swing at it,” he tells Us.
Below Deck Down Under airs back-to-back episodes on Bravo Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
Couch Talk With Captain Lee and Kate premieres on Bravo Monday, August 4 at 10 p.m. ET.
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