Bosun Luke Jones has been fired from Down Under after getting into bed with a co-star while n**ed.n**ed, without her consent.
In shocking scenes that aired last night, the season two crew returned to the boat following a messy night out where chief stew Aesha Scott put Margot Sisson to bed, after she had too much to drink.
When the stewardess was left alone and passed out in her bunk, Luke walked into her cabin completely n**ed.n**ed and climbed into her bed with her.
Producers jumped into action during the worrying moment, telling him: ‘Luke, come on out! We gotta get you down. I gotta get you out of here because she wants to go to bed.’
While still n**ed.n**ed, he kept trying to shut the door to the cabin and swore at the film crew, before marching back to his own room, telling castmate Laura Bileskalne that he ‘didn’t do anything’.
Aesha went to check on Margot, who confirmed that she was asleep and ‘didn’t invite that at all’, vowing that she ‘didn’t even know’ that he was n**ed.n**ed.
Visibly emotional, the head of the interior team then approached Captain Jason Chambers’ cabin about what had transpired during the evening.
‘Basically, we came home tonight and I felt like Luke was kind of wanting to take advantage of Margot’s drunkness a little bit,’ she said. ‘She was pretty out of it. Then, next thing I know, the power goes out and Luke is running out of Margot’s bed n**ed.n**ed. She was completely unconscious.
‘Now Luke is so freaked out that he got caught that he’s locked himself in his room. It’s so f**king wrong.’
Breaking down, Aesha continued: ‘I just feel like a lot of women have had history with things happen and it’s stresses me out if I ever see anyone being taken advantage of.’
She told the camera in a confessional: ‘We don’t actually know what would have happened but being in her bed n**ed.n**ed, and she had no idea, it actually makes my skin crawl. You don’t have the right to put someone unconscious into that position.
‘I have had a drunken sexual assault experience before and I never wanted that to happen to anyone else.’
Captain Jason clarified that Margot was safe, before storming down to Luke’s cabin to get him off the boat, putting him in a hotel for the night.
The following day, he sat the team down and informed them that the bosun had been let go, with deckhand Culver Bradbury temporarily stepping up as his replacement.
‘I want to stress this is a place we respect each other,’ he added. ‘Our cabin is our safety zone, that door is our boundary. That door is not to be opened unless it’s consensual.
‘To walk into someone else’s room without consent, indecent, is my limit.’
Luke was allowed to briefly return to the boat for his possessions while his crewmates remained in the salon.
He told the Captain of his actions: ‘I’m sorry, and I’m just so disappointed in myself.’
Below Deck Down Under streams on Peacock in the US on Mondays, and on hayu in the UK on the same day.
