Below Deck Mediterranean’s Malia White and Jake Baker’s Relationship Timeline
usmagazine.comAn unexpected boatmance! Malia White and Jake Baker‘s romance took Below Deck Mediterranean viewers by surprise — but the couple originally formed a bond behind the scenes after meeting during season 6.In June 2021, Malia, 31, returned to the hit Bravo series and confirmed that she was no longer dating chef Tom Checketts.
At the time, the Florida native revealed that it was her decision to call it quits after fans watched their growing romance one season prior.“Yeah, we were, you know, working on different boats,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2021. “It was in the pandemic [that] had just happened.
So, it was impossible for us to see each other. It was right when the show is coming out, it’s obviously a lot going on in our lives.
And, yeah, he found someone else on his boats and I didn’t know for a couple of months.”Malia admitted that she wasn’t looking to date when she joined Below Deck Med for the third time. “I think I even told David [Pascoe about the split, explaining] that everything with Tom and I was falling apart right before we filmed this season,” she continued. “I was a mess coming into it and I was just like, ‘You know, I don’t really want to even see men right now.’”Although the bosun was single onboard, she didn’t rule out a relationship with someone in her industry, adding, “The people you work around are the ones you build these close relationships with.
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