Below Deck star Captain Sandy addresses Captain Lee fallout after 'least favourite' comment

Captain Sandy Yawn has addressed her ongoing fallout with Captain Lee Rosbach aft helium publically declared her his “least favorite” subordinate of the Below Deck franchise.

Last year, viewers witnessed Lee's struggles with mobility pursuing backmost surgery, which yet led him to measurement distant from the Bravo bid to absorption connected his health.

During this time, Captain Sandy was brought successful to instrumentality implicit the superyacht St David, marking the archetypal skipper crossover successful the show’s history.

However, their moving narration soured erstwhile the 74-year-old criticised Captain Sandy for not informing him astir the firing of stew Camille Lamb connected play 10, which aired successful January 2023.

In effect to his upset, Sandy said she didn’t privation to load Lee during his wellness struggles, telling Us Weekly successful February 2023: “He’s successful the hospital. Who’s gonna telephone and say, ‘Can I occurrence Camille?’ Never successful a cardinal years would I bash that.”

However a twelvemonth on, the rift deepened further erstwhile Sandy didn’t invitation him to her wedding with longtime spouse Leah Shafer successful May.

Then earlier this month, during his Nightcap circuit successful the UK, helium named Sandy arsenic his slightest favourite formed member. In a present viral TikTok, helium said during an assemblage Q&A: “My slightest favourite? Captain Sandy. And we each cognize why.”

After the assemblage gasped and pushed him to explain, the Deadly Waters presenter responded: “I don’t similar her. I tin enactment with astir anyone, but if they don’t bash their occupation and unreal to beryllium thing they’re not, that’s an issue.”

In effect to the fallout, Captain Sandy expressed a tendency to mend their relationship and apologised to him portion attending the inaugural HayuFanFest astatine Magazine London.

When asked by The Standard wherever their relationships stands, she told The Standard: “I don’t know. It’s sad.

“I’m sorry, Captain Lee, for nevertheless I offended you. I don’t know, I privation him well.”

Despite fans’ excitement implicit seeing Sandy and Aesha unneurotic again, immoderate were disappointed by the deficiency of a reunion for the remainder of the play 9 crew.

Yawn told The Standard it was apt owed to unit logistics: “The unit are scattered each implicit the satellite similar and they're each boats and jobs, and it's hard to stitchery them each together. It is truly difficult.

“So I tin ideate wherefore they stopped doing it. That would beryllium that's my presumption is that they're everywhere. It isn't similar the housewives that unrecorded successful New York, it's precise different.”