Below Deck Down Under‘s Captain Jason Chambers and Daisy Kelliher have to consider a cast shakeup after a crew member considered quitting early into the charter season.
In Us Weekly‘s exclusive clip from the Monday, February 16, episode of the hit Bravo series, Jason checks in with Daisy about sous chef Alesia Harris and chef Ben Robinson. Daisy tells Jason how Alesia and Ben “went for each other” the night prior.
“It was pretty bad last night. I am not going to lie to you, it went from zero to 100,” Daisy adds, to which Jason replies, “I want to see her stay. Obviously, I know her from last season but I also know her outside of boating too. I met her sister down in Sydney.”
Despite Jason’s hope for the crew, Daisy admits she doesn’t think Alesia and Ben “can do the season together,” saying, “I was hoping they would. But I think this is going to keep going. But I also think it’s gonna take away from their service. It’s going to hinder the guest’s food — most importantly.”
Daisy continues: “I don’t want to see Alesia go as well. She fits in great with the crew and apparently she was a stew before she’s a sous chef. I don’t know what your plan is — but from my end — I’m happy for her to join my team.”
Jason, meanwhile, points out that he does have a stew coming in. “If I can’t turn this girl back, she’s fine. I might ring her up and see if she likes cooking,” he adds. “Otherwise, we have to change to get a galley again. I’m a little bit disappointed that Alesia can’t just toughen up for a longer.”
Season 4 of Below Deck Down Under got off to a rocky start when Ben realized Alesia’s experience wasn’t what he was expecting. Alesia crumbled under the pressure and told Jason she wasn’t sure she could stay on the boat.
Alesia isn’t the only one who appeared to have issues with Ben. In the official trailer for the season, Ben appeared at odds with Daisy multiple times.
“Maybe we’re both as stubborn as each other,” Daisy exclusively told Us Weekly last month. “[Our issues were] kind of all of those things. It was the guest cabin, it was the way he managed his team and the way he ran his galley. There were difficulties with communication — so timing and not envisioning service the same way. There were honestly a lot of difficulties and challenges.”
Daisy still called Ben “a hard person to stay angry at,” adding, “But neither of us wanted animosity, and I think both of us really wanted to give the best for the guests. With that being our primary focus, we were always able to come back to that and be like, ‘OK, look, we like each other. We have the same goal. How can we make this happen?’”
She continued: “But I think toward the end of the season, I was getting frustrated. We have a few flare-ups, and there’s definitely some arguments there. It’s difficult because I was trying to do a good job — as he was. Everything was honestly a challenge.”
At the time, Daisy recalled having to “pick” her battles with Ben.
“I let it go. Even Jason is like, ‘Let it go and pick your battles.’ There were so many other things going on. It felt like this was a small thing to kind of argue, but I guess I just wouldn’t let it go and he wouldn’t let it go,” she concluded. “He takes a guest robe, but he’s doing it to annoy me and he makes it his own. As you’ll see throughout the season, he wears it all over the boat to wind me up. So, of course, I can’t let it go. I think he was doing stuff to push my buttons throughout the season.”
Below Deck Down Under airs on Bravo Mondays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.
