'Below Deck Down Under': Aesha Scott on the Challenge of Following in Hannah Ferrier's Footsteps as Chief Stew
etonline.comis going to Oz — but not the «Over the Rainbow» one, the Australian one! , a new spinoff of the Bravo hit, brings along a familiar face, franchise fan-favorite — and native of the Southern Hemisphere — Aesha Scott.
Last seen on as a back-up stewardess in season 5, the New Zealand native is rocking an extra couple of stripes this go-around as 's inaugural chief stew. «I wanted to be part of another show, because it's just the best thing that's ever happened to me,» Aesha confesses to ET over video chat, explaining how this all came about. «So, I just reached back out to Bravo and I was like, 'Hey, I am still doing some yachting, and I really love the experience.
Is there anything else coming up?' And they were like, 'Well, actually...' And so it just flowed on from there. And so I'm so glad that I asked.»To gear up for her biggest yachting job yet, Aesha called up her own one-time chief stews — longtime star Hannah Ferrier and her season 5 boss, Bugsy Drake — for some last-minute advice of how to handle the work while also navigating filming it.«We, obviously, had to quarantine to get into the country — it was right in [the height of] COVID — and oh my god, I called Hannah and I was just like, 'And what about this?
And what about this?' And, 'We're provisioning this...' And, 'What did your bank look like?' Because it's all just so new, that role with the show, and Hannah was just, honestly, the biggest support.
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