Below Deck is showing more footage of Kyle Stillie’s alleged hookup with a married guest before Captain Kerry Titheradge‘s investigation into the scandal.
During the midseason trailer, which Bravo released on Monday, July 14, Kyle was seen getting cozy with a woman on a future charter. Rumors about their connection reached the captain after a visit to a nude beach.
“So the crew are saying you banged a charter guest,” Kerry told Kyle, who replied, “I have said things that suggest something did happen.”
Another clip showed Kyle bragging to his coworkers that he “f***ed her in the sea” before producers asked if it was “a joke.” After Kyle wouldn’t reveal whether he was kidding, Kerry noted that if the deckhand was responsible for inappropriate behavior with a guest, he “deserves to leave the vessel.”
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly in June, Captain Kerry confirmed that he took matters into his own hands once he was alerted to rumors that Kyle and a guest were intimate.
“There was an investigation done. I’m not too sure how much of that will be shown but I did a thorough investigation before I made my decision,” Kerry said, while teasing whether Kyle was fired for the situation. “It will be interesting to see what happens after I interviewed each of the crew members — including what was actually said behind [my back].”
Kerry noted that he could only get involved once the rumors made their way to him.
“I don’t get to see what’s going on Below Deck because I’m in the wheelhouse or I’m over here and I can’t be everywhere,” he explained. “I don’t micromanage. I allow my crew to grow and I like to be here and to help encourage people. There’s a lot I don’t see and there’s even more I don’t want to see.”
Kerry continued: “We’re going to see how it all develops on the show. If one of my staff is with a married person on the boat, they’re not going to stay on the boat. You’re breaking a boundary there that you can’t cross.”
At the time, Kerry also addressed how things potentially got physical with a guest, which resulted in him having to get the authorities involved.
“I’ve never called the police to help me out,” Kerry recalled. “I have asked the police to not come because of loud music. I feel like I got it under control [in the past]. I would be in Saint-Tropez in France and there’s a party upstairs at 3 a.m. The French don’t like that but I’ve never had to involve the police on any issues on the boat.”
Kerry “didn’t want to” contact the police while filming.
“I didn’t want to bring reproach on the vessel. But my main job is the safety of my passengers, the crew and the vessel,” he noted. “This guest was acting unsafe — especially to herself. I was not in a position to take care of that problem internally. She wouldn’t listen. So I had to post crew all over the vessel to make sure she wouldn’t do anything silly. I talked to the guests to try to get her to understand. But when people have a lot to drink, their personality changes.”
The midseason sneak peek captured the moment a guest wouldn’t get out of the water after getting drunk. Kerry expressed concern about her “safety,” but the woman only got more “volatile” before the authorities stepped in.
“You can’t do that to me,” she said. “I f***ing hate everybody.”
Below Deck airs on Bravo Mondays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.
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