Below Deck Down Under‘s Ellie Dubaich and Jenna Woudberg were not on the same page about who had a higher rank on the boat.
During the Monday, April 6, episode of the hit Bravo series, Daisy Kelliher asked Ellie to switch places with Jenna while greeting guests based on their different positions. Jenna thought her role as a second stew made her more senior than Ellie, who was a galley hand.
Ellie, however, later referred to herself as a “sous chef.” Chef Ben Robinson explained in a confessional that sous chef isn’t an accurate description of Ellie’s role, adding that he previously gave her the unofficial title of “chef assistant” — but the title of galley hand made the most sense.
While the issue wasn’t resolved, Below Deck fans know that the drama continued once filming wrapped. Ellie and Jenna went back and forth about where they fit in on the boat before the galley hand broke her silence on the offscreen feud.
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“I was surprised because I didn’t mean to offend anybody. I was simply sharing what happened when I got the call after [stew] Joe [Caron] left,” Ellie exclusively told Us Weekly in March.
Ellie joined season 4 of Below Deck Down Under after some reconfiguration led to a stew position no longer being available but a spot in the kitchen opening up. After coming aboard the boat, Ellie agreed to make the move to the galley instead of interior, which caused backlash when Daisy and Jenna defended the assumption that someone’s job would have been at risk if Ellie hadn’t agreed to the swap.
“I was on my way to being a second stew because Captain Jason [Chambers] wanted to have the most experienced leadership team. I started working at sea when Jenna was in third grade in 2016. That’s not a dig. That’s a simple fact,” Ellie told Us. “It did make sense that Captain Jason would want me to be in a leadership position. [When he] asked me to change, I was happy to change. That’s all I was saying.”
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She continued, “I was happy that things worked out the way they did. But the way Jenna and Daisy responded was mean-spirited. It was unnecessary, and I was taken aback. So I think it’s going to be a little bit indicative of how the two of them approached me this season.”
Ellie called Daisy’s reaction a “one-sided” issue.
“It started this season, and we’ll see that evolve,” she teased. “But I don’t really have an issue with Daisy. She doesn’t like me. She doesn’t seem to like me for whatever reason. We’ll see how that happens. But I don’t really have an issue with her.”
Looking ahead, Ellie made it clear there’s no bad blood on her end.
“I had no problems to begin with,” she continued. “Let’s move on — as far as I’m concerned.”
Below Deck Down Under airs on Bravo Mondays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.