Crew members on Below Deck Mediterranean Season 9 facing backlash for potential poor performance
Crew members on Below Deck Mediterranean Season 9 facing backlash for potential poor performance
Below Deck Mediterranean season 9 has been full of issues, and even just a few episodes into the charter season some of the crew members are facing major backlash after potentially faking their poor performances. As Below Deck Mediterranean season 9 has ventured out into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the crew has been doing its best to become a well-oiled machine quickly. With difficult charter guests in the first episodes of the season, things have been tough for the Mustique’s crew, especially Chef Johnathan Shillingford and Bosun Iain MacLean. Both have struggled to succeed in the first charters.
According to several fans on Reddit with the poor performances Johnathan, who goes by Jono, and Iain have been giving, it seems possible that they’re staging their issues for Below Deck Mediterranean style drama. “Sorry but the chefs food is not good enough. He needs to go. Something about this whole situation seems super staged. Same with Iain. It just seems so dramatically staged,” u/Legitimate_Candy2750 shared. While Jono has been struggling to create dishes that are up to Captain Sandy Yawn’s standards, his skillset should be wide enough that he shouldn’t be struggling this much with creating delicious dishes.
While Jono has been struggling through the meal service for guests, Bosun Iain has been on the other side of things with the rest of the exterior crew, but facing struggles all the same. Iain’s said to have some serious yachting experience, but his performance and lack of managerial skills have been surprising throughout the first episodes of Below Deck Mediterranean season 9. According to u/murderedbyaname,“the hires are a 50-50% responsibility between production and Capts” on Below Deck, meaning Iain and Jono could both have been brought in with qualifications, but with production knowing they’d fumble their responsibilities.
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While some feel that both Iain and Jono are production plants in the cast that will bring drama to the show while allowing replacement cast members to come in and save the day, others wonder if the crew members are truly having issues with their work. For Johnathan, it’s clear that his abilities aren’t quite as vast as he made them out to be in the first episodes of the season. Though Jono has said that his first passion wasn’t cooking, he’s been open that he enjoys what he does. His enjoyment of cooking doesn’t necessarily lend to being successful.
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For Iain, it’s unclear what his experiences in the past have been and how they’ve prepared him for Below Deck Mediterranean. While Iain clearly has a depth of knowledge on superyachts, his issues seem to be more based in working with a team that he has to manage consistently. His issues could be real, but it appears that both Jono and Iain’s issues may have been exaggerated for the sake of drama on Below Deck Mediterranean. While Captain Sandy will still have to deal with the crew members, it may be somewhat less dramatic if their terminations were pre-determined.
Although the speculation about whether Jono and Iain are production plants may never fully be resolved, it will be interesting to see how things proceed on Below Deck Med. If Jono and Iain are both fired, two replacements will have to come into the cast, which will change the dynamics up entirely. As Below Deck Mediterranean continues, time will tell if viewers will have to get used to new crew members changing the Mustique’s in the future.
