After a night of bad decisions, the “Below Deck” Season 11 crew continues to make bad decisions in bed. Sunny Marquis snuggles up with Ben Willoughby despite getting mad at him for flirting with Xandi Olivier, while Barbie Pascual has another sleepover with Kyle Stillie, who made out with Fraser Olender just hours before. They’re already fighting like a married couple. “I’m not a morning person. Don’t fu*king fu*k with me,” Barbie tells Kyle after he throws a pillow at her the next day.
Sunny has regrets about getting all jelly. “After a couple of drinks, an alter ego of me comes out. Her name’s Sabrina. She’s a jealous b*tch,” she tells the cameras. “The guys I used to date were little a**holes that would cheat on me and Sabrina’s kind of like, my protective shield.” Apparently, she’s never watched “Below Deck” and Ben in action with the girls or she would have never hooked up with him.
Everyone’s hungover except for Dylan Pierre De Villiers, who is as chipper as ever. Sunny apologizes to Xandi, who tells her she has no reason to worry about her and Ben
Anthony Iracane’s messiness is irritating Fraser Olender
Fraser asks Captain Kerry Titheradge if a new stew has been procured and slips in how unorganized Chef Anthony Iracane is in the galley. Kerry doesn’t want to push Anthony in case the chef loses his creative mojo.
Anthony reveals in a confessional that he has dyslexia and was teased as a kid. “That hurt me inside. And I think for me, it’s hard to be focused. That’s part of the dyslexia, of course. It makes this job more difficult, I would say.” However, he adds that he can’t give up because he loves what he does. Justice for Chef Anthony!
The preference sheet is a sh*t show
Preference sheet meeting time! Kerry prefaces the chat by telling Ben, Anthony, and Fraser that they’re doing great despite being a crew member down. Now for the guests, who are already sounding like nightmares. Melinda Springer is the primary charter guest and used to work as a cruise director. She won’t be high-maintenance at all!
Then, dun dun DUN! One of the guests is former “Real Housewives of New York City” cast member Jill Zarin, along with her boyfriend Gary. Everyone jump overboard now.
According to the preference sheet, Melinda is allergic to everything, including air and water. “Gluten, wheat, and hazelnut … lobster in the shell, also vegetarian who is slowly starting to integrate fish into her diet…”
Melinda’s husband, Noah Springer, hates meat and fish, so … he’s a vegetarian? A dude named Josh hates vegetables. Anthony should just throw them a plate of gummy worms and hopefully, they’ll be happy, because nobody likes food.
It’s not over. Melinda wants an egg-free, dairy-free, gluten-free piña-colada-inspired cake for her birthday, whatever that means. Surprisingly, Anthony doesn’t tell Kerry, “Eat my cooter,” and walks off the boat.
“I’m very stressed,” Anthony tells the cameras.
Jill Zarin complains about everything
The guests come aboard and Jill is the first to complain. She says the hot tub water is too hot and asks Fraser to turn it down. “We can make anything work,” he promises her, which sets a bad precedent and unattainable high expectations.
The next thing that Jill complains about is the ice. For some reason, she doesn’t like it but doesn’t specify why. Is it the shape? Not cold enough? Tastes too much like poverty?
Barbie tells her they have different ice and runs downstairs to get superior frozen water. It turns out, Jill likes nugget ice. “All right, I’ll give you nugget ice from now on,” Barbie promises.
“I’m usually a solo stew from small boats, like six guests, like 80-foot yachts. This is three times as big as what I’m used to. Yachting for me is not this intense,” Barbie says in a confessional. “Like stew down means no breaks, less hours of sleep, and it’s just like, it’s so much more for everybody.”
The guests play in the water and look happy. No one has complained so far — until Jill is like, “Hold my Diet Coke.”
As the guests are getting ready for dinner, Jill asks for a mirror because there’s no outlet in the bathroom for her hair dryer. Barbie tells her that it’s hidden in a drawer.
“I want to tell you something else because I’ve chartered a lot of yachts before. Every bathroom is loaded with toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, band-aids, and Q-tips. Has anyone ever said that before?” she tells Barbie.
“No, they have not,” Barbie answers, because not everyone is like Jill. “But I completely understand what you’re saying,” she adds. Jill isn’t done and asks for Tums and chocolates on the pillows.
The guests have dinner and so far, so good. Even Jill likes the presentation. Anthony presents the birthday cakes and the guests are happy. Dinner is a success and no one hates their food.
Jill complains at breakfast
Breakfast doesn’t go as smoothly. Some want a vegan plate and others want their damn eggs. Someone wants hot sauce and of course, Jill has something to say about it.
“It’s such a big boat, they can’t be here all the time. But, sometimes, like, if you need hot sauce and you have a hot plate of food, you don’t want to wait five minutes for it because it’s going to be cold,” she tells the group.
Fraser comes by and Jill tells him her genius idea. “A button for the primary and it’s like a doorbell. I used to have a doorbell and it would go to the kitchen,” she tells him.
“I bet they loved you,” Fraser quips back.
“Jill is crawling into my brain and eating away at my soul,” Fraser tells the cameras.
Jill Zarin complains at lunch
Barbie takes the guests’ lunch orders for their beach picnic and a friend of the primary orders a vegan burger with cheese. Make that make sense. With the requests for vegan burgers, regular with cheese, regular with lettuce, no bread but with dairy-free cheese and gluten-free meat, Anthony’s eyes are spiraling.
When Jill gets her burger with no bun, she complains that her meat is cold. Others affirm that theirs is cold and she says, “Just tell them, they don’t mind.” Xandi brings the food back.
Kerry comes to the galley and Xandi warns him that the guests will complain about the food. Barbie takes responsibility and says she didn’t write down their requests in an organized way.
Jill is all, “I’m the captain now,” and wants to have a talk with Anthony about dinner. He offers tofu Pad Thai. “Do you have chicken Pad Thai?” she asks him. “I can do chicken,” he answers. Jill requests sushi for an appetizer but then asks for crudites because she doesn’t eat sushi. The primary is there but she’s been demoted and doesn’t get a say in anything.
At the beach, Fraser tries to do damage control and apologizes to Jill about lunch. “It’s no big deal! You do it once and then she’ll never do that again,” she reassures him. You have to teach the help to behave somehow, right?
Meanwhile, Barbie is scrambling to get the rooms ready for the guests while they’re meditating on the beach. When Xandi comes back, they have words about the napkins getting ironed. Xandi thinks Barbie should have done it while the guests were at the beach, while Barbe is like, “Who had the time, b*tch?”
When Fraser gives the guests their sushi apps, Melinda points out that there’s no non-raw fish. Captain Kerry acknowledges to the crew that everyone is too focused on Jill when they should be on top of the primary, who is the one paying for the charter. He tells everyone to cater to Melinda over Jill. Good luck with that.
