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Below Deck’s Eddie Lucas Confirms He Was ‘Not Invited Back’ for Season 10, Addresses ‘Frustrating’ Paycheck Issues

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Saying goodbye, again. After confirming that he won’t be joining Captain Lee for season 10, Below Deck’s Eddie Lucas questioned his Bravo paychecks on his way out.“I was not invited back to do another season,” Lucas, 37, told the New York Post on Wednesday, May 11. “I actually didn’t even get a phone call from them saying they hired someone else — which kind of goes to show what the production entails.

Everyone on Below Deck is expendable.”The former bosun also reflected on his issues with how the Below Deck cast was paid for their work. “There is somebody monetizing off of the show, but it’s definitely not us,” he claimed. “Below Deck — regardless of it being the most popular show on Bravo — we are the lowest-paid cast members.”The Bravo personality continued: “While we do get paid better than a normal yachtie, of course, we are still not getting paid what people like the Housewives are making, which is a little frustrating, because they’re not really working — they’re just going out to dinner and fighting.”Lucas noted in the interview that despite his frustrations, he would be willing to return to Below Deck in the future.The first officer’s surprising departure comes after he joined Captain Lee, 71, for seasons 8 and 9.

He was previously a cast member on the hit reality series from 2013 to 2015.In August 2020, Executive producer Courtland Cox weighed in on Lucas’ ability to offer support to his boss with his onscreen return.

That same year, Captain Lee revealed that his only child passed away.“On the heels of this incredibly awful tragedy that Lee and Mary Anne suffered to be able to have someone familiar like Eddie come back, when he has been like a son to Lee, it got magnified into this kind of amazing but awful

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