Daisy Kelliher has spoken out in response to fan speculation that she may leave Below Deck Sailing Yacht after season four.
The chief stewardess originally appeared on board Parsifal III in the second series and quickly became a fan favourite, both to her efforts with passengers and her ability to put bosun Gary King in his place when necessary.
She hasn’t had an easy start to the new series, though, and was shown crying in an emotional trailer – before that kiss with Colin Macrae threw us all for a loop.
The tense moments fueled rumours that Daisy will soon announce her departure from the Bravo show, but in an interview with Metro.co.uk, Daisy assured that there is nothing to worry about.
‘I think that’s interesting when I see that,’ she said of the rumors. ‘I think people are just so shocked when they see me cry. Even the crew were like, “Oh, my God, what the hell is going on?” I am not a robot, I have feelings, I have emotions. I’m actually quite an emotional person, I’m just good at hiding it from work.
‘This is not the first time I’ve cried at work, I’ve cried at work many a time, it’s just the first time I’ve cried during Below Deck. It’s my job and I’ve been doing this for 10 years, I don’t walk away because I have one little breakdown. I would have walked away a long time ago if that was the case.
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‘I don’t know what’s going to happen with season five – that I can’t confirm, I don’t know what’s happening. But yachting is, for sure, not out of the picture. And definitely being on another season is not out of the picture.’
So far this season, we’ve seen the boat break down just as Captain Glenn Shephard was about to set sail, Gary miss out after testing positive for Covid, and Daisy handle all of the requirements from visitors while simultaneously teaching a green interior staff.
Even the most patient person would have considered a Rocky-style jump into the ocean.
The yachtie stated that most of her tension came from overcoming ‘all these barriers’ while also being in front of the cameras for the third time, which added to the pressure of not’messing up’.
‘In season one, I was just going to try my hardest, whereas now, that’s not a good enough excuse, I actually have to pretend to be good at this,’ she continued. ‘I don’t know if the guys felt that as well. But definitely the boat acting up was a huge pressure to everyone.
‘And just the different crew members automatically [add] pressure, I’m always like, “Oh, what’s going to kick off next?” The little triangle between Gary, me and Colin was a big stress factor, I think for all of us. There’s just a lot of stress to be honest.’
Daisy said that she may be regarded as ‘unflappable’ for the most part, and that she is typically happy being the ‘butt of jokes,’ but that her trigger point was pushed in the future episodes, after her work was ‘nitpicked’ on board.
She said that hearing Gary describe her as ‘unprofessional’ didn’t help matters after she had worked so hard.
‘I have warned people [that], as I get older, I do have a trigger point. I’m human and I’m just like everybody else,’ she said. ‘I’m always the butt of the joke and that’s fine, I’ll take it if everyone needs that … I think people see me as being able to handle it, which a lot of the time I can.
‘But when I’m tired or I feel like I’ve upset someone, or I’m not doing a good job, or I hear the same thing over and over again, of course, that’s going to build up and it’s going to make me crack.
‘I think you can see in the first couple of episodes. I feel like I’m being a little bit nitpicked. That’s hard for me to watch. Gary calling me unprofessional when his hair is all over the place and his shirt isn’t tucked in. But I’m unprofessional?
‘Eventually, I get to a point where I can only hear that so much. It takes everyone aback, I think everyone was a bit like, “Whoa, like, we’ve never seen her be this upset”. Well, I’m human, if you’re going to keep at me, eventually you’re going to break me. I have a breaking point like everyone else, and unfortunately, this season is the season where you see it get broken.
‘That’s part of being a chief stew and part of being in a work environment. I’m good at hiding it and shielding it all. I care about my job, and I care about people around me, so it’s going to affect me.’
Below Deck Sailing Yacht airs on Mondays on Bravo and is available to stream the same day on .
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