Captain Sandy by accident made Luka Brunton‘s boatmance with Jessika Asai far more sophisticated by way of citing his marvel reference to Underneath Deck Mediterranean alum Katie Flood.
In Us Weekly‘s unique clip from the approaching episode, which airs on Monday, January 8, Sandy issues out how satisfied Luka appears to be like upon getting a textual content message.
“Is that your girlfriend texting you? From the other boat?” the captain requested Luka in entrance of his coworkers, together with his present fling Jessika.
Whilst Luka gave the impression surprised on the remark, Sandy didn’t understand, including, “I knew it was her because [of] your face! Luke is smitten.”
The bosun requested Sandy what she supposed by way of the phrase smitten, which she clarified with the phrase “crush.” Jessika, for her phase, wasn’t overjoyed to listen to in regards to the different lady in Luke’a existence.
“What f—king girlfriend?” Jessika stated in a confessional. Tumi Mhlongo elaborated on Sandy blowing up Luka’s spot, telling the cameras, “Captain Sandy has no idea what’s going on with Jess and Luka. I’m really curious how Luka is going to get himself out of this one.”
Season 8 reintroduced audience to Luka after his stint on the second one season of Underneath Deck Down Beneath, which aired previous this 12 months. Luka used to be basically excited about his transition from a deckhand to a provisional bosun to main the deck workforce after Ruan Irving left the boat because of solid forms.
Because the season endured, Luka advanced a flirtationship with Natalya Scudder as she attempted to determine her open courting with an offscreen boyfriend. Natalya and Luka made out a couple of instances however in the long run parted techniques when she left the Mustique to determine the problems in her non-public existence.
Luka temporarily moved on with Jessika and it used to be all clean crusing till he introduced up his bond with Katie.
“I’ve known Katie for like four years. She used to date one of my friends and I know that she’s worked with Sandy in the past,” Luka stated all through the December 18 episode prior to giggling off assumptions of a romantic previous. “My history [with her]? We don’t really have any history. We’ve hung out a few times. What are you trying to get at?”
Previous within the episode, Luka advised cameras he used to be “not worried about getting attached” to Jessika. He has since introduced Us an replace on how the boatmance drama wrapped up.
“I’m in a relationship at the moment. [I’m] back with my partner that I was with before the show,” Luka published to Us all through BravoCon in November. “We split up [before] the show and we’re back together now. I don’t think she’s watching [this season]. It’s probably good.”
Along with inflicting some surprising hassle for Luka, Katie has been stuck up in her personal relationship drama all through her time on Bravo. After filming season 6 of Underneath Deck Med, Katie advised Us about how she up to now dated deckhand Jack Stirrup.
“I didn’t watch his season for a long time. When I found out he was doing Below Deck, I was kind of like, ‘Oh, what are you doing?’ You know, because he’s actually an engineer by trade. He’s not a deckhand. Which obviously comes across in the series,” she shared in June 2021. “When I did finally, like, watch the series, I really loved it. It’s exactly him to a tee, like it’s super goofy, super charming, you know? He just does what he wants to do. That’s Jack. So, it was really nice to see that he was exactly how he is in normal life.”
Katie went on to show that she used to be the muse in the back of Jack’s tattoo, which he confirmed off at the display all through his season 4 look. “He does. I know a lot of his girlfriends often aren’t the biggest fans of that,” she added. “He says he’ll always keep it.”
In spite of no longer returning for extra seasons on Underneath Deck Med, Katie joined the season 3 solid of Iciness Area along former costar Malia White. Katie discovered herself smitten by way of Tom Schwartz however the pair’s temporary fling in the long run fizzled out prior to it truly began.
Ultimate month, Katie shared her principle on how Schwartz’s cut up from now-ex-wife Katie Maloney contributed to their unsuccessful strive at a romance.
“I think he’s done a lot of things in that relationship [with Katie] that he knows put her through a lot, and I think in his mind he was like, ‘OK, this is going to be on TV. She is going to see it,’” the executive stew advised Us. “They’d obviously filmed Vanderpump [Rules] a couple of months prior and we obviously saw what happened last season. So I think that was in his head. He was trying not to disrespect [his ex-wife] or do something to her.”
She endured: “Honestly, at the start, I didn’t really mind it. We were all very aware of what he was going through. There was a lot going on in every single area of his life, so I was trying to really hold space for that and be mindful to him and have courtesy towards that. But it definitely gets [to] a [breaking] point, and it just sucked a little bit. I do have feelings, and it was getting a bit exhausting to keep going through this circle, and I felt a bit disrespected.”
Underneath Deck Mediterranean airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.