It was one of the more bizarre mishaps in Below Deck history when a charter guest discovered a panty liner stuck to their cabin closet on Below Deck Down Under Season 4.
The chaos began when the fourth set of charter guests boarded M/Y Katina during Episode 8 and unpacked their suitcases.
“Daisy, so I put out my clothes, and there’s a f—king p—sy liner stuck to the wall! Stuck to my wall! I am not making this s—t up. I am not even joking. I’m not gonna touch it either,” Nashea, one of the guests, told chief stew Daisy Kelliher.
As Daisy went to Neshea’s room to inspect the closet and shelves, she uttered, “Oh my God!” Cameras panned to show the liner attached to the wall. “I am so sorry! I will get this cleaned for you,” Daisy said as she peeled the liner off with her hands.
The Below Deck Down Under crew unpacks the panty liner fiasco
On the Below Deck Down Under After Show, the interior team tried to get to the bottom of who was to blame.
“I can’t really remember right now who had the job to do the cabins,” deck/stew Mike Durrant said, while stew Jenna Woudberg insisted, “I never saw the panty liner.” Stew Alesia Harris added, “Clearly, none of us did,” then pointed out, “Because none of us had checked the cupboards.”
Daisy admitted she had a pretty good idea of which of her crew members was directly responsible for the miss. “I do probably suspect it might be Alesia. She’s just all over the place,” Daisy explained.
But Alesia defended herself, pointing out, “It’s everyone’s responsibility. Everyone that’s gone into that room at least once should be checking everything. But, we dropped the ball.”
Daisy herself took some of the responsibility as well. “Like anyone in a position of authority, if we get complaints, it comes down on me. It’s my name on the line,” she conceded on the After Show. “I came in here to do a good job…So the girls making these mistakes, it is frustrating.”
She later added, “We’re halfway through the season. People are getting tired. And it’s definitely one of those things when you’re looking at something all the time, you miss those things.”
As second stew, and the one who was supervising the cleaning, Jenna felt responsible. “I know I f—ked up,” she admitted to producers during the March 23 episode of Below Deck Down Under, and added that she was distracted by deckhand Eddy Hounsell flirting with both her and Alesia. “All this Eddie and Alesia bulls—t has really been consuming my mind. And I’m f—king up with my job.”
When Daisy pulled Mike and Jenna aside after the guest discovery, she told them, “Okay, guys, those cupboards are not being cleaned out properly.” Jenna agreed the incident was “so embarrassing” for the interior team.
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“I am traumatized even thinking about it,” Jenna confessed to producers. “Imagine it was used! Like how did we not see this?”
To Daisy, Jenna promised, “It won’t happen again.”
Mike Durrant says the Below Deck Down Under Season 4 interior crew was “cutting corners”
For Mike, panty liner-gate was just the tip of the iceberg.
“Everybody skipped certain things. It was like, ‘We’re not gonna check the drawers.’ Or, ‘There’s enough soap in there, we’re not going to bother putting any more,’” he admitted on the After Show. “So, whoever’s job it was just didn’t check the cupboards, you know? I don’t know whose fault it was to blame.”
His admission prompted an After Show producer to ask, “So, you’re saying interior was cutting corners?”
“For sure!” Mike laughed, adding that cupboards and drawers were frequently left off the checklist. “I know a couple of times the guests would say, ‘Where’s my robe?’”
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“It wasn’t always my job to go and clean every single cabin. Everyone, between me and Alesia and Jenna, always got delegated different cabins,” he shared. “Or we were like, ‘Mate can you go down and start the cabins,’ but I might not finish them.”
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