As you already know by now, Below Deck is our latest obsession. As the title suggests, the show follows the crew of superyachts (aka yachties) – and thankfully there are 13 seasons, so we’re not getting over it anytime soon. I mean, each season is filled with trips to different Islands with the yachties trying to navigate through their very unique workplace, so how could we get tired of watching it??
The show has only just reached MENA waters (lol), but the first few seasons, on the yacht, were actually filmed a few years ago. So where are the cast now?
Lee Rosbach – Captain
Trusty Captain Lee Rosbach is the back bone of below deck and *spoiler alert* is the only crew member from Season 1 who continues through all eigth filmed series. He lives in Fort Lauderdale in Florida, and seems to spend a lot of time with his family and grandchildren, but he sailed back to his favourite location – the Carribean, Btw, he also just celebrated his 46th wedding anniversary with his wife in Hawks Cay resort and we have all the feeels! He’s verified on Instagram with a huge 617K followers and also ‘partners’ with Maui Jim sunglasses. All good in the hood for Captain Lee!
Rachel Hargrove
With over 31k followers on her Instagram, the seasoned five-star chef shares snippets of her life including some adorbs face mask selfies and of course, dishes to die for.
Eddie Lucas – Deckhand
Eddie is very much verified on Instagram, but isn’t suuuuper big on posting. Eddie is back on our screens soon as he has re-joined the Below Deck gang. He’s not a big fan of posting on social media, but he shares a few sneak peaks of upcoming episodes.
Kate Chastain – Chief Stewardess
After six seasons of being Chief Stewardess, the RBF queen decided to step down “as a senior member of the Below Deck family and work to become financially independent while continuing to fully support His Majesty Andy Cohen,” as she wrote in a cheeky statement. Yeah, she took a page out of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s announcement. Her instagram bio now reads “Proficient in Microsoft Outlook”. And, honestly, the queen has her priorities straight!
Amy Johnson – 2nd Stewardess
All seems rosy in the life of the ever-charming stewardess. Amy left the show after two seasons and according to Kate, she is “basically living the dream outside of the world of Below Deck world.” Amy got engaged in July, and her brother Kelley has recently announced that she is now married. In true Amy fashion, she casually dropped a picture of her wedding on New Year’s Day dubbing 2020 as a year she’ll never forget. Yup, we won’t either, though probably for different reasons.
Kelley Johnson – Bosun
Kelley is now a professional photographer and videographer. The second Johnson on the Below Deck cast returned in Season four as Bosun, however, Kelley left the show to pursue his passion in Photography. His Instagram bio now says ‘photographer | videographer | captain’. He has also photographed his sister Amy’s wedding, but images are still pending aside from the one tiny breadcrumb Amy gave us.
Raquel Dakota – 3rd Stewardess
Rocky has maintained the active lifestyle she displayed on the show as she continues to travel the world. There’s not much to report here as she maintains a private account on the ‘gram, but what we know if that seemingly found her ideal man, Mark. We’re glad she’s living her best life.
Emile Kotze – Deckhand
Emile now dabbles between acting and his company as a travel agent. As expected, he travels around the world and takes some killer shots while he’s at it. A lot of selfies on this IG!
Aleks Taldykin – First officer
Aleks is only in Season 1 of Below Deck, and now has taken his love of boating into super yacht sales and charter for Denison Yachting. He is engaged, and is a huge campaigner for the reduction of single-use plastic and ocean pollution – the content we like to see!
Adrienne Gang – Chief stewardess.
Adrienne got married in Florida, and some Below Deck cast members came to celebrate with her. She’s now a freelance chef and works on a multitude of boats. She even uploaded a pic to the ‘gram a week ago of her watching Below Deck Saling Yacht! Oh, and she also has a cute dog that she dresses up in captain outfits.
C. J. LeBeau – Second engineer
C. J is the rebellious one, and another cast member which only appears in Season 1. Unfortunately, we don’t have much to report here. C. J was arrested in Arizona for assault back in summer 2013, and well… we’ve never seen anything from him since. Side note: no pictures here, C. J is IG private.
Kat Held – 2nd stewardess
Kat reported in 2017 that she was having a career change and embarking upon nursing school, but we’re not sure what happened with that one. She’s not big on social media and has only posted three times in the last 18 months, two of which were of the Bravo Below Deck Reunion in January, and the third was a pair of muddy trainers.
Samantha Orme – 3rd stewardess
All seems peachy in the life of Sam Orme; she has a beautiful baby girl called Blake, and has celebrated her first wedding anniversary with her husband and her life appears full of sweet family days out, afternoons painting and the odd yatchie throwback. She also has a super cute pup which goes by the name of Ed Orme, and has his own IG account.
Ben Robinson – Chef
Chef Ben is verified on IG and posts some drool-worthy pics of his culinary creations. His lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is a dab hand at YouTube tutorials. He hosts lots of tutorials on Zoom, so if you ever want to know how to make the dishes which you see being served on Below Deck, this is your chance. You can also pay for a personalised cameo video from Ben, for you know, whatever reason.
David Badberry – Deckhand
Describing himself as the ‘Below Deck voice of reason’, David only appears in Season 1 of the show. He is now an actor and writer living in Washington DC with his impeccably well-dressed dog Quincy. He also spent his time in lockdown watching a Below Deck marathon on Bravo.