A sexual misconduct scandal has erupted on the latest season of Bravo’s Below Deck Down Under, resulting in two crew members being sacked from the series.
On the show’s latest episode, bosun Luke Jones was terminated after climbing into the bed of Margot Sisson, who was naked and asleep, ‘without consent.’
Second stew Laura Bileskalne’s reaction to the incident also led to her getting let go by Captain Jason Chambers after she insisted that Luke wasn’t to blame.
She was ultimately fired for showing ‘little respect and empathy’ toward Margot.
Luke’s inappropriate behaviour came after the crew went out in Cairns, Australia.
A sexual misconduct scandal erupted on Bravo’s Below Deck Down Under this week, after bosun Luke Jones (pictured) got into bed with ‘unconscious’ co-star Margot Sisson
Producers were forced to intervene after catching Luke in bed with Margot, who was passed out asleep after a night of heavy drinking
Luke and stewardess Margot are both pictured in their official cast photos for the hit yachting series
At dinner, Margot stated that she was ‘really drunk’ and chief stew Aesha Scott even told deckhand Culver Bradbury that she was going to keep an eye out for her.
‘I just want to chaperone her a bit,’ Aesha explained.
Despite Margot’s intoxicated state, Luke repeatedly attempted to flirt with her and asked her to ‘cuddle’ with him as they sat in the back of a car together.
‘No, let’s go,’ she responded, before making it clear that she just wanted ‘to go to bed’ by herself.
As Aesha took her back to her cabin, she assured Margot that she wouldn’t let ‘any drunkenness’ lead her to get ‘taken advantage of.’
‘I’d just like to see you get into bed safely. I’ll get you water,’ she told Margot.
Luke, who was naked under a towel, made a beeline for Margot’s bunk
Producers burst into the cabin as soon as Luke crawled into Margot’s bunk bed, where she was asleep
The producer begs Luke to get down and tries to remove him from the bed
Later, Luke proceeded to enter Margot’s room in just his boxers as he asked her to join in the hot tub.
‘I just saw the way that Luke was looking at you, and I’m feeling very protective,’ Aesha told Margot.
Margot replied: ‘I am glad that you’re here. I don’t want to go in the jacuzzi, I want to go bed. All I want is water and bed, no Luke.’
Once producers turned the lights on, a furious Luke, who was completely naked, screamed at the producers to ‘f**k off’
He then slammed the door, leaving himself and Margot alone in the cabin
A producer immediately demanded Luke open the door, shouting ‘Open it! Open it!’
Upon returning from the jacuzzi, Luke made a beeline for Margot’s cabin, where she was alone and sleeping.
After he got into her bed, producers stepped in and told Luke to leave her alone.
‘Can you f**k off for a second?’ he told the cameramen.
‘We can’t do that, she said no, she said no,’ the producers told him.
Once Aesha returned to the cabin, she tells her friend that Luke had been in her cabin and ran out ‘naked.’
‘Oh my God. Ew, he was naked?’ Margot responded, to which Aesha asked: ‘Did you consent to him being in here?’
‘No, I was asleep,’ said Margot. ‘I did not invite that at all.’
Chief Stewardess Aesha Scott rushed to the scene as a naked Luke left the room
Aesha checked on Margot, who was shocked to discover that Luke had been in her bed naked
Luke later locked himself inside of his own cabin and insisted that he’d done nothing wrong
Aesha then informed Captain Jason, who wanted to know if Sisson was ‘safe.’
‘So she’s safe? She’s safe yeah?’ said Captain Jason. ‘She’s safe,’ said Aesha.
Aesha, in tears, claimed that Luke had tried to ‘take advantage of Margot’s drunkenness’ while she was ‘completely unconscious’ in bed.
Captain Jason then went into Luke’s room and ordered him to stay in a hotel for the night.
The next morning, Jason gathered the rest of the crew members and informed them that Luke was being terminated.
An emotional Aesha informed Captain Jason of the incident and claimed that Luke had tried to ‘take advantage of Margot’s drunkenness’
Captain Jason fired Luke the next day. On his way out, Luke told Jason that he ‘was sorry’ and was ‘so disappointed’ in himself for the way he’d acted
He also gave the crew a talk about the importance of consent and boundaries and stressed the rules they had to follow on board.
Jason then fired Luke, who simply responded, ‘I accept that.’
On his way out, he told Captain Jason that he ‘was sorry’ and was ‘so disappointed’ in himself for the way he’d acted.
Second stew Laura Bileskalne’s reaction to the incident also led to her getting let go by Captain Jason after she insisted to Margot that Luke wasn’t to blame
Stewardess Laura spent the rest of the day sympathising with Luke, stating that he should’ve just been given a ‘warning’ and not fired.
She even told Margot that the firing ‘wasn’t fair’ and that he was simply ‘joking’ and ‘drunk’, before implying that Margot may be at fault for the incident.
As a result, Captain Jason ended up firing Laura as well, blasting her for not respecting boundaries.
