The interior crew on Below Deck is in charge of many tasks that are key to a great guest experience, including cleaning rooms, serving guest meals, and taking care of laundry. So when Captain Kerry Titheradge noticed a major issue in the laundry room on Season 12, Episode 3, he didn't hold back his thoughts.
“Fraser, Fraser—Kerry. I am without uniform, mate,” Captain Kerry said on the radio, causing Fraser to rush around to find his whites in laundry and deliver them to him, just minutes before the charter guests arrived.
“If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself,” stew Rainbeau de Roos observed.
Fraser tried to make clear that not having the captain of the yacht’s uniform ready for him was a big mistake “Guys, I’d rather you f—k up everywhere else, not with this,” Fraser told stew Barbara Kulaif.
Despite the stern warning, this wasn’t the end of it for the interior crew. Just as the crew was getting ready to serve the guests dinner, Kerry appeared at his door in a towel to speak to Fraser.
“What’s wrong with this picture?” he asked, and Fraser responded, “You haven’t got your uniform.” Kerry agreed, declaring, "Third time today."
The Below Deck interior crew reacts to the laundry mishap with Captain Kerry
Fraser was not happy with Barbara and Rainbeau. “Girls, I’m going to say this one last time,” he said. “Captain just came to me totally naked and in his towel. He hasn’t got his uniform. He’s pissed off.”
But Rainbeau deflected any of the blame for the uniform situation.
“If our team is f—king up and f—king up and f—king up, that’s not on me. I’m doing my job properly. It’s such a f—k show,” she said in her confessional.
Barbara also tried to rid herself of any of the blame, and told her chief stew, “I can’t think of everything.” But Barbara also confessed she was “pissed” at herself because she was “responsible” for the uniform.
“I’ve been pulled in different directions, doing different things all the time,” she said in her confessional. “I feel like I’m never finishing anything. It all falls on me. I feel like a very bad crew member. This sucks.”
Fraser Olender opens up about problems with his interior team
Fraser couldn’t believe he was put in the same situation multiple times in one day, and exclaimed, “What the f—k is going on?”
He reassured Captain Kerry that he’d spoken with his team about the issue several times.
“Captain, I really apologize, that’s one thing we’re ironing out this season…I’m not happy about it at all. I’m really pissed,” he told him.
But Fraser also knew he was ultimately the one responsible.
“In interior, if even a plug is two degrees off center, it’s on me,” he said in his confessional, and later added, “I guess I just need to continue not relying on anyone and telling everyone, everything.”
This wasn’t the first major problem of the season for Captain Kerry, and the interior team isn't the only department in the hot seat. During the first charter, the deck crew left the charter guests’ bags behind at the dock, causing the captain to call them “those f—king wankers.”
Later this season, Fraser has teased more trouble ahead: an alleged hookup between deckhand Kyle Stillie and a married charter guest.
