She helped make her six seasons of charters very successful. Chastain had worked for Captain Lee since season 2 and excelled at her job. The former star in fact had one of her signature saucy takes about those shocking Below Deck: Sailing Yacht hookups in its last season. Shop high-quality unique Kate Chastain T-Shirts designed and sold by independent artists. Captain Lee was caught off guard when his long-time chief stew Kate Chastain decided not to return to Below Deck after season 7. However, she still pops in from time to time on the Bravo network, usually to dish with Andy Cohen about the current goings-ons with the Below Deck franchise. Speaking about Berner specifically, Chastain told Us, She chose for us not to be friends early into the Chat Room filming. But since quitting yachting – "real" or otherwise – Kate Chastain revealed to Showbiz Cheatsheet that she has taken up space in the event planning/party planning industry in Florida. Kate Chastain and Hannah Berner Gregory Pace/Shutterstock (2). It was just too much.įellow alum Hannah Ferrier is in the same, metaphorical, boat as her.
Once the first season aired, I think I did take one freelance job as a favor to a friend and the yacht owners were like, ‘Can we get a selfie with you?’ And I was like, ‘Sure, but I gotta go make your Bloody Mary first.’ It was just too awkward. No one cared when I was brushing my teeth, which was annoying. And you know, once you’ve filmed a reality show of your job to then go and try and do that same job without a production team of 70 following you around, it’s just less exciting. Chastain realized that even though filming Below Deck was “exciting,” she was at the point where she was “just over it,” adding:īefore the first season aired, I did try to work on a yacht. In a recent interview with the Yung Flamingo podcast, Kate Chastain shared that the show wasn't proper or “real” yachting in the sense that the workers onboard generally aren't the center of attention. Up until that point, she had headlined Below Deck for six seasons under Captain Lee and was a regular unknown yachtie for six years before that. The reality star officially hung up the old chief stew lapels back in 2020.