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Ben Robinson's Return to Below Deck Med Has Inspired Lots of Reactions from Alums
Past and present crew members sound off on the chef joining the Sirocco crew in Season 4.


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Did Anastasia Surmava Want to Make Travis Michalzik Out to Be a Villain?
That's what Travis Michalzik thinks when it comes to their "love tap" confrontation.
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31:51S4 - Sneak Peek10 Moments from Below Deck Mediterranean Season 4 You Didn't See On Air
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2:26S4 - Sneak PeekBen Robinson's Epic Rant About Vegans Will Leave You Speechless
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1:13S4 - Sneak PeekTravis Michalzik and Jack Stirrup Give You a Lesson in Yachtie Slang
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1:24S4 - Sneak PeekThe Below Deck Mediterranean Crew Drank Beer Out of a Shoe?!
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1:47S4 - Sneak PeekJack Stirrup Reveals the Grossest Moment You Didn't See On-Air
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2:47S4 - Sneak PeekAnastasia Surmava and Aesha Scott's Bartending Tips
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3:57S4 - E18 | Part 6Jack Stirrup Cheated on Aesha Scott?!
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2:48S4 - E18 | Part 5Captain Sandy Yawn Spills All the Juicy Details on "Smoking Hot" Girlfriend Leah Shafer
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1:11S4 - E18 | Part 4Jack Stirrup and Travis Michalzik Were "Freezing Their F---ing Dicks Off" During That Slumber Party
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2:08S4 - E18 | Part 3Hannah Ferrier Responds to Captain Sandy Yawn's Comment About Lacking Passion
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2:31S4 - E18 | Part 2Captain Sandy Yawn Thinks João Franco Made One Major Mistake This Season
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2:07S4 - E18 | Part 1João Franco Dishes on the Hookup Fail You Didn't See On-Air
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3:06S4 - E17 | Part 5Captain Sandy Yawn Reveals the One Quality That's Holding Travis Michalzik Back
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2:52S4 - E17 | Part 4João Franco Likely Caught That Virus from a Very Gross Source...
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1:49S4 - E17 | Part 3Why Travis Michalzik Describes Rooming with Ben Robinson as "F---ing Carnage"
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1:42S4 - E17 | Part 2Ben Robinson Has Some Management Advice for Hannah Ferrier
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1:20S4 - E17 | Part 1Were These Charter Guests the Most Boring in Below Deck Mediterranean History?
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2:38S4 - E16 | Part 6Aesha Scott's Most Outrageous Statements: A Retrospective
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2:38S4 - E16 | Part 5Aesha Scott on Jack Stirrup's Grand Proposal: "That's What a Woman Wants"
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2:00S4 - E16 | Part 4Jack Stirrup Thinks That First Hook Up with Aesha Scott Wasn't His "Best Performance"
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2:56S4 - E16 | Part 3Why Ben Robinson Terrified Aesha Scott and Anastasia Surmava
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1:57S4 - E16 | Part 2Captain Sandy Yawn Says João Franco Wouldn't Have Questioned Her If She Was a Man
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3:11S4 - E16 | Part 1Hannah Ferrier Reveals the Real Reason She Nixed White Glove Service
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3:28S4 - E15 | Part 5Captain Sandy Yawn Opens Up About Being Arrested for Drinking and Driving
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1:16S4 - E15 | Part 4Why Ben Robinson Believes the Sirocco Galley is Cursed
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1:32S4 - E15 | Part 3Captain Sandy Yawn Calls Out Anastasia Surmava for Being "Lazy"
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1:48S4 - E15 | Part 2There Was More of Jack Stirrup's Naughty Poem That You Didn't Hear On-Air
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2:01S4 - E15 | Part 1Was Anastasia Surmava's Slow Plating for the Cameras to Blame for Her Cold Food?
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2:04S4 - E14 | Part 7Was Travis Michalzik Actually Jealous of Jack Stirrup's Relationship with Aesha Scott?
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1:42S4 - E14 | Part 6Aesha Scott Reveals the Exact Moment She Realized Her Feelings for Jack Stirrup
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2:20S4 - E14 | Part 5Did Travis Michalzik Ever Hear from That Guest He Gave a Note to After the Charter?
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2:07S4 - E14 | Part 4Captain Sandy Yawn Has a Theory About Why Guests Are So Attracted to Her
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4:03S4 - E14 | Part 3Does Ben Robinson Think He Overreacted to Travis Michalzik's Wild Partying?
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2:42S4 - E14 | Part 2Ben Robinson Reveals the Major Mistake He Made with These Charter Guests
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1:03S4 - E14 | Part 1Why Captain Sandy Yawn Had to Laugh About Colin Macy-O'Toole's Mishap
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2:55S4 - E13 | Part 4Ben Robinson Was in a Strip Club When He Got the Call for Below Deck Mediterranean?!
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3:56S4 - E13 | Part 3Watch Ben Robinson React to Mila Kolomeitseva's Most Shocking Moments
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2:45S4 - E13 | Part 2João Franco: "There Were Boobs Everywhere" on This Charter
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2:16S4 - E13 | Part 1The Real Reason Hannah Ferrier Decided to Let Aesha Scott and Jack Stirrup Room Together
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4:44S4 - E12 | Part 5Hannah Ferrier: "It Is Not Acceptable to Physically Touch Another Crew Member"
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3:16S4 - E12 | Part 4João Franco Breaks Down Explaining Why the "Love Tap" Triggered Him
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2:47S4 - E12 | Part 3Did Anastasia Surmava Want to Make Travis Michalzik Out to Be a Villain?
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2:51S4 - E12 | Part 2The Ultimate Example of Jack Stirrup's Laziness Didn't Make It On Air
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2:14S4 - E12 | Part 1Aesha Scott and the Cameraman Never Got an Apology for Being Thrown Up On?!
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4:18S4 - E11 | Part 5Is João Franco Secretly Attracted to Aesha Scott?
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3:08S4 - E11 | Part 4The Real Reason Hannah Ferrier and Travis Michalzik's Romance Was Doomed from the Start
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1:53S4 - E11 | Part 3Hannah Ferrier Dishes on João Franco's Awkward Romantic Hints
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1:55S4 - E11 | Part 2João Franco Admits to Being Jealous of Travis Michalzik's Pineapple Speedo
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1:55S4 - E11 | Part 1The Below Deck Crew Dishes on Anastasia Surmava's Increasingly Commanding Attitude
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2:58S4 - E10 | Part 5How Travis Michalzik and João Franco's Dive Could Have Easily Turned Deadly
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2:12S4 - E10 | Part 4What Did That Rowdy Guest Tell João Franco After Being Kicked Off the Yacht?
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3:27S4 - E10 | Part 3Captain Sandy Yawn's Story of Escaping Pirates Will Leave You Speechless
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2:45S4 - E10 | Part 2Anastasia Surmava Claps Back at Johnny Damon's Complaints About Her Food
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2:27S4 - E10 | Part 1João Franco Explains How the Yacht Was "Half a Meter" from Disaster During That Docking
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3:35S4 - E9 | Part 1Jack Stirrup Responds to His Insensitive Rape Comment
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3:12S4 - E9 | Part 2Captain Sandy Yawn Explains Why Jack Stirrup and Travis Michalzik Endangered the Crew
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1:43S4 - E9 | Part 3Captain Sandy Yawn Was "Always in Her Cabin Crying" During Her First Season?!
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3:45S4 - E9 | Part 4The Real Reason Hannah Ferrier Cancelled the Date with Travis Michalzik
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3:56S4 - E9 | Part 5Aesha Scott Reveals Why She Wouldn't Let Jack Stirrup Kiss Her at First
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1:08S4 - E9 | Part 6Aesha Scott Explains Why Her Mom Imagined Jack Stirrup Had a "Snake Penis"
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3:29S4 - Sneak PeekJoão Franco Reveals How Jezabob Has Gotten Him into a "Lot of Trouble" in the Past
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5:05S4 - E5João Franco Reveals the Shocking Way He Learned Ex Brooke Laughton was Unfaithful
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3:46S4 - E3Why Travis Michalzik Regrets How He Confronted Mila Kolomeitseva About Her Homophobia
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1:02S4 - E1Your First Look at the Below Deck Mediterranean After Show
Monday night's episode of Below Deck Mediterranean was certainly a shocker. Anastasia Surmava stepped down as chef, Captain Sandy Yawn let June Foster go, and the fate of Colin Macy-O'Toole's employment remains uncertain.
But perhaps the most jaw-dropping moment of the episode came at the very end when we found out that the new chef Captain Sandy hired to take over the galley is none other than Ben Robinson, who fans will remember from Seasons 1 through 4 of Below Deck and Season 1 of Below Deck Med.
And we're not the only ones who are super stoked to see Ben back on the high seas. Several past and present Below Deck and Below Deck Med crew members also couldn't contain their excitement when they heard the good news.
The comments to a tease Ben posted on Instagram about his return to the show inspired lots of enthusiasm from the Below Deck family:
"Yea boyeeee!" Colin wrote, along with a raised hands emoji, an icon that Bugsy Drake also posted in the comments.
"Yassssss," Emily Warburton-Adams shared, along with a heart and a praying hands emoji.
"Looking good benny!" Nico Scholly wrote. "It was only a matter of time."
"Oh hot damnnn," Anastasia gushed.
View this post on InstagramWhat do you reckon... #belowdeck #belowdeckmediterranean #bravotv #cheers 📷 Bravo Media
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Nico also showed that he was overjoyed about Ben's return on Twitter. "The man, the myth, the legend himself. Welcome back @BenRobinsonChef," he tweeted. "Time to get loooooooooose baby!!!"
The man, the myth, the legend himself. Welcome back @BenRobinsonChef. Time to get loooooooooose baby!!! #belowdeckmed
— Nico Scholly (@NicoScholly93) August 20, 2019
Adrienne Gang made a prediction about how Ben will get along working with Hannah Ferrier again this season. "Is 'Ben, Ben, Hannah' the new rap?!?" she joked on Twitter.
Is “Ben, Ben, Hannah” the new rap?!? @ColinMacyOToole @hannahferrier_ @BenRobinsonChef @BravoTV #BelowDeckMed 😜 pic.twitter.com/sikMakz6vw
— Adrienne Gang (@AdrienneGang) August 20, 2019
João Franco got to see Ben's reaction to the tease of his return firsthand as the two attended a little viewing party of Monday night's episode of Below Deck Med together.
View this post on InstagramSorry..., what????😂 #belowdeckmed
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View this post on InstagramA post shared by Julie Belford Stern (@juliestern13) on
We should expect Captain Sandy to give Ben a warm welcome when he officially climbs aboard the Sirocco. "The passion that @BenRobinsonChef has [and] what he does is the passion that I have [and] what I do [and] that makes the most amazing experience for the guests. What my industry lacks sometimes is that passion for your job," she tweeted. "He’s amazing."
The passion that @BenRobinsonChef has & what he does is the passion that I have & what I do & that makes the most amazing experience for the guests. What my industry lacks sometimes is that passion for your job. He’s amazing. #BelowDeckMed https://t.co/a5rNKCWKbD
— Captain Sandy Yawn (@CaptSandyYawn) August 20, 2019
Ben told The Daily Dish during a recent phone interview that he couldn't have been happier to be back on Below Deck Med. "It was really good. It felt right," he shared. "It was lovely."
Watch the Sirocco crew spill secrets of the high seas in the Below Deck Mediterranean Season 4 After Show, above.
Catch a sneak peek of an all-new episode of Below Deck Med coming up on Monday at 9/8c, below.


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