Francesca Reveals Why She Didn't Promote Ashling to Second Stew After Elizabeth's Demotion
"She would have had me [be] 10th stew," Elizabeth Frankini said of the Below Deck chief stew.


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Francesca Rubi Was "Relieved" to Demote Elizabeth Frankini to Third Stew
Izzy Wouters and James Hough disagree with Francesca's handling of the situation.
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2:07S8 - E7 | Part 1Captain Lee and Eddie Lucas Reveal Which Crew Member Is a Perfect Love Match for Kate Chastain
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3:48S8 - E7 | Part 2Eddie Lucas Was "Wasting His Time" With Shane Coopersmith
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1:53S8 - E7 | Part 3Rachel Hargrove Says Shane Coopersmith "Needs a Swift Kick In the Butt"
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3:15S8 - E7 | Part 4Izzy Wouters Was Convinced She Was Getting Fired
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4:54S8 - E7 | Part 5Captain Lee on Elizabeth Frankini: "I Can't Believe She Could Be That Incredibly Dumb"
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4:06S8 - E7 | Part 6Captain Lee Rosbach Admits He Would Have Replaced Elizabeth Frankini Over Bleach Incident If He Could
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5:30S8 - E7 | Part 7Izzy Wouters Wishes She Was a Fly on the Wall for THAT Preference Sheet Meeting
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1:41S8 - E7 | Part 8James Hough Will "Never Forgive" Francesca Rubi
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1:56S8 - E7 | Part 9How Did Shane Coopersmith Really Get His Sunshine Nickname?
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2:56S8 - E8 | Part 1Was Francesca Rubi Making Elizabeth Frankini Feel Insecure "As a Way to Control" Her?
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3:49S8 - E8 | Part 2Elizabeth Frankini Says It Was Actually Kind Of Francesca Rubi's Fault That She Forgot the Beach Picnic Rosé
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3:13S8 - E8 | Part 3Eddie Lucas and Captain Lee Rosbach Break Down the Slide Saga That Drove Cap "Overboard"
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3:16S8 - E8 | Part 4Robert Phillips "Has As Much Personality As a Six-Foot Asparagus" According to Izzy Wouters
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3:41S8 - E8 | Part 5Captain Lee Rosbach Admits That Chef Rachel Hargrove's "Extreme Talent" Is the Only Reason He Let Her Return
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1:19S8 - E8 | Part 6Captain Lee Rosbach Explains Why He Kept a Close Eye On "Hand Grenade" Rachel Hargrove After She Returned
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2:18S8 - E9 | Part 1Chief Stew Francesca Rubi Says Jumping Into the Ocean With Ashling Lorger Was a "Breather" From Elizabeth Frankini
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3:18S8 - E9 | Part 2Francesca Rubi Was "Relieved" to Demote Elizabeth Frankini to Third Stew
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4:15S8 - E9 | Part 3Izzy Wouters Doesn't Think Francesca Rubi Is a Great Manager or Leader
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3:02S8 - E9 | Part 4Eddie Lucas Calls Chef Rachel Hargrove’s Behavior at the Crew's Night Out "Rude and Classless"
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1:50S8 - E9 | Part 5James Hough Really Doesn't Want to Talk About His Hot Tub Moment with Elizabeth Frankini
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4:39S8 - E10 | Part 1Captain Lee Rosbach Relives the Moment When Charter Guest Delores Defied Him and Jumped Into the Water
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2:27S8 - E10 | Part 2Why Did James Hough Actually Get Upset When Elizabeth Frankini Told the Crew About Their Hookup?
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2:31S8 - E10 | Part 3James Hough Is Shocked to Find Out How Dirty the Hot Tub He and Elizabeth Frankini Hooked Up in Is
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2:20S8 - E10 | Part 4Francesca Rubi Calls Stew Elizabeth Frankini a "Huge Deflector"
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1:54S8 - E10 | Part 5Eddie Lucas Loved Saying "No" to These "Boat People" Charter Guests
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1:16S8 - E11 | Part 1I Knew She Wasn't Going to Go Peacefully Says Captain Lee Rosbach About Delores Jumping Into the Water... Again
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2:13S8 - E11 | Part 2What's Really Going On Between Deckhand Robert Phillips and Chief Stew Francesca Rubi?
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2:10S8 - E11 | Part 3The Crew Reacts to “Babysitting” Delores’ Room Overnight
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2:53S8 - E11 | Part 4Delores’ Friends “Threw Her Ass Under the Bus So Fast It Made Your Head Spin” Says Captain Lee
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3:03S8 - E11 | Part 5Izzy Wouters and James Hough’s Room Smelled Like “Sweaty Infected Butt Crack” According to Izzy
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2:05S8 - E12 | Part 1“It’s Annoying…It Hurt” Says Elizabeth Frankini of James Hough’s Comments About Instagram Girls
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4:33S8 - E12 | Part 2Izzy Wouters Says “Babe I Love You But… Time and Place” of Chef Rachel Hargrove’s “Scary-oke”
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1:32S8 - E12 | Part 3Chef Rachel Hargrove Reveals She Was on America’s Next Top Model
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4:39S8 - E12 | Part 4The Yachties React to Rachel Hargrove “Destroying” James Hough: “What the Hell?!”
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4:45S8 - E12 | Part 5Could COVID-19 Be the Reason Half the Below Deck Crew Got Sick at the Same Time?
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4:03S8 - E13 | Part 1Izzy Wouters Calls Rob Phillips' Reaction to Her Getting Lead Deckhand "Immature and Childish"
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4:15S8 - E13 | Part 2Was James Hough Flirting with Ashling Wouters Just to Make Elizabeth Frankini Jealous?
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2:12S8 - E13 | Part 3Ashling Lorger Says She Was "Instantly Turned Off" By James Hough
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4:37S8 - E13 | Part 4The Yachties Address Elizabeth Frankini and James Hough's Cannoli Rendezvous
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3:37S8 - E13 | Part 5Izzy Wouters and James Hough Admit They Enjoyed Being Roommates in the "Harry Potter" Cabin
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3:07S8 - E13 | Part 6Captain Lee Rosbach Calls Izzy Wouters a "Diamond in the Rough"
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4:10S8 - E14 | Part 1Captain Lee on His Son's Passing: "Every Day Is a Battle"
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5:11S8 - E14 | Part 2Chief Stew Francesca Rubi and Chef Rachel Hargrove Go to Captain Lee Over Mahi-Mahi Miscommunication
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3:10S8 - E14 | Part 3Elizabeth Frankini Used a Guest Cabin Without Permission Because She "Lost All Respect" For Francesca Rubi
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5:06S8 - E14 | Part 4Staying in a Guest Cabin With Elizabeth Frankini Was Worth Getting in Trouble With Captain Lee, Says James Hough
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1:45S8 - E14 | Part 5What Even Is "Fairy Bread"? Izzy Wouters Explains
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3:04S8 - E14 | Part 6Izzy Wouters to Robert Phillips: "You're a D*ck"
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2:08S8 - E14 | Part 7What Captain Lee Really Thinks of Elizabeth Frankini FaceTiming Her Energy Healer
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5:27S8 - E14 | Part 8Izzy Calls "Dramatic as F***" Chief Stew Francesca Rubi "Cruella DeVille"
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2:43S8 - E15 | Part 1Was Francesca Rubi Blamed for Chef Rachel Hargrove's Mistake?
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4:42S8 - E15 | Part 2Ashling Lorger Is Over These Charter Guests and Their Drunk All-Nighter
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2:54S8 - E15 | Part 3Chief Stew Francesca Rubi Supports Ashling Lorger's Decision to Lie to the Charter Guests
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2:32S8 - E15 | Part 4Captain Lee Rosbach "Really Likes" the Queen of Versailles and Her Husband David
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2:15S8 - E15 | Part 5Rachel Hargrove Reveals That She and Boyfriend Vincenzo Have Broken Up
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2:18S8 - E16 | Part 1"I Just Can't Take It Anymore" Says Chef Rachel Hargrove About Working With Francesca Rubi
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3:56S8 - E16 | Part 2Captain Lee Gives Eddie Lucas His First Officer Stripes, Says "You Earned It"
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5:11S8 - E16 | Part 3The Crew Weighs In On Elizabeth Frankini's "Dramatic Exit"
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6:46S8 - E16 | Part 4Rob Phillips Admits He "Felt Pretty Terrible" About How He Treated Izzy Wouters
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4:49S8 - E16 | Part 5Captain Lee and the Crew React to the Season Ending Abruptly
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5:35S8 - E16 | Part 6Captain Lee Says They "Exhausted Every Possibility" Before Firing Elizabeth
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2:13S8 - E16 | Part 7Was James Hough Secretly Glad to "Be Rid Of" Elizabeth Frankini?
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4:15S8 - E16 | Part 8Chef Rachel was "F***ing Pissed" That the Crew Celebrated Elizabeth's Departure
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4:00S8 - E17 | Part 1Francesca Showed "Deliberate" and "Obvious" Favoritism Towards Ashling, Says Elizabeth
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3:03S8 - E17 | Part 2Captain Lee Calls Chief Stew Francesca a "Breath of Fresh Air"
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4:07S8 - E17 | Part 3Ashling Lorger and Francesca Rubi Weigh In On Elizabeth's Crystals and Energy Healing Practice
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2:19S8 - E17 | Part 4James Hough's Mom Crashes His Interview and Tells It Like It Is
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1:08S8 - E17 | Part 5Chef Rachel Reveals That She and Kate Chastain Have Had "Some Really Interesting Times Together"
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3:38S8 - E17 | Part 6Eddie Lucas Calls Francesca Rubi a "Bombshell"
Francesca Rubi hasn't been too happy with Elizabeth Frankini's work as second stew this season of Below Deck. So, when Captain Lee Rosbach didn't take Francesca's recommendation to let Elizabeth go, she decided the best course of action would be to take away her second stew stripes in the December 28 episode of Below Deck.
The chief stew opened up more about her decision in the Below Deck After Show, which you can view, above. "Well, I can't fire her, and I need to do something about this because she's got this entitled situation going on, and I can't have this," Francesca explained. "I have an expectation of how [second stews] work, and when I took those two stripes away from Elizabeth, all of a sudden the expectation was like nil, which relieved a lot of the weight off my shoulders, because I wasn't then now expecting Elizabeth to think like a stewardess or think ahead or do the things I need her to do as a second stew, because she wasn't second stew anymore."
"So it actually was a relief for me to do that," Francesca continued. "I was happy with my decision because it definitely made me lower my expectations of her."
Elizabeth said in the Below Deck After Show that she saw things this way: "As long as I wasn't second, it doesn't matter. [Francesca] would have had me [be] 10th stew."
When it came to getting demoted, Elizabeth said that she was just "so happy I wasn't fired." "I took a lot of responsibility as a second stew, but in the end that's just a stripe, it's just a name for something. Being demoted didn't matter to me. I was gonna work just as hard, obviously harder, like never-ending, of course, to prove myself," Elizabeth said. "Throw a dog a bone. If that's what makes her feel better about me and more confident in her job, she needs to demote me, that's fine, demote me. I'm still here."
Elizabeth said that she "100 percent" thought that Francesca would then promote Ashling Lorger to second stew. But Francesca actually didn't think that's what would have been best for her team. "Some people thought maybe I would have switched them, like put Ash straight up into second [stew] and put Elizabeth down [into third stew]," Francesca said. "But it was such a small interior team, I didn't want to create any more tension or drama."
Deckhands Izzy Wouters and James Hough shared in the Below Deck After Show that they disagreed with Francesca's decision to demote Elizabeth. Izzy even offered up her own suggestion for how Francesca should have handled the situation. Check it out in the above video.
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