{"id":97972,"date":"2025-08-26T20:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97972\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:35:16","slug":"below-decks-fraser-olender-names-the-personality-hire-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97972\/","title":{"rendered":"Below Deck\u2019s Fraser Olender Names the \u2018Personality Hire\u2019 of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked whether Season 12 was the \u201chorniest, gayest season of Below Deck<\/a> ever,\u201d Fraser Olender<\/a> quickly agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely think it is,\u201d he admitted. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic. It\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve had so many LGBTQ+ cast members \u2026 Everyone just really wanted to get down.\u201d <\/p>\n

There were so many hookups<\/a> among the crew, that Fraser \u201ccouldn\u2019t keep track of who was getting with who.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who was the \u201cpersonality hire\u201d of Below Deck Season 12?<\/p>\n

\"BelowPhoto Credit: Fred Jagueneau\/Bravo<\/p>\n

But the thing that really surprised Fraser was both chef Anthony Iracane<\/a> and deckhand Kyle Stillie<\/a> blaming him for their being in trouble. In Anthony\u2019s case, stewardess Barbie Pascual<\/a> told the chef that Fraser \u201cgot [him] fired\u201d in Season 11. While Kyle blamed Fraser<\/a> for telling Captain Kerry Titheradge<\/a> about the deckhand\u2019s inappropriate behavior with a guest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the one-two punch of both cheffie and Kyle \u2026 pinning you as being responsible for their behavior,\u201d ET\u2019s<\/a> Brice Sander observed. \u201cIt\u2019s two different things, but the same results, right? Have you figured out why it landed there for both of them?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Fraser answered, still seemingly perplexed. \u201cI don\u2019t understand why chef came in with such attitude toward me \u2026 I put my neck on the line to bring him back, and he still [he] was coming for me \u2026 Then Kyle [also] tried to pin it on me, too. I don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then the conversation turned to Fraser\u2019s breaking the fourth wall after Kyle came at him. He asked the cameras to stop filming him for a moment, which is kind of crazy because production is there to capture the drama. That\u2019s your job, Fraser.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was being set up,\u201d he explained. At the same time the cast was filming, Season 11 was airing and Fraser felt \u201cvillainized,\u201d dealing with a lot of social media reaction. \u201cI was tired of being labeled as the bad guy, when I don\u2019t think I deserved that.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it came to novice stew Sol\u00e8ne Favreau<\/a>, Brice questioned whether she was a caricature of what Americans think a French person should be. She worked at her own (slow) pace, took breaks whenever she felt like it and just generally made her supervisor Rainbeau de Roos<\/a>\u2018 life miserable.<\/p>\n

At that point, \u201cwe were so far into the season,\u201d Fraser responded. \u201cThere was no point in getting someone new in who could potentially be worse than Soso.\u201d He did his best to calm Rainbeau\u2019s nerves before things could get physical and to teach her to deal with a difficult crew member. But he warned us, \u201cTeaser: it gets rocky<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Fraser admitted that though Sol\u00e8ne was tough to get along with, she was \u201csuch a loveable human being \u2026 She was definitely a personality hire, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below Deck<\/a> airs Mondays at 8\/7c on Bravo in the US. It streams on Hayu in the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n

TELL US \u2013 DO YOU AGREE THAT SOL\u00c8NE WAS A PERSONALITY HIRE? WHY DO YOU THINK BOTH ANTHONY AND KYLE BLAMED FRASER FOR THEIR TROUBLES?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked whether Season 12 was the \u201chorniest, gayest season of Below Deck ever,\u201d Fraser Olender quickly agreed. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,71809,71810,134,71811,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-97972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bd","11":"tag-below-deck","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fraser-olender","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}