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The drama between Below Deck‘s Fraser Olender and Real Housewives of New York alum Jill Zarin continues, with Olander clapping back via social media.
Olender used the TikTok sound, “If you don’t like me, that’s fine, but you know, watch your mouth,” on his latest post, commenting, “🙄 #fyp #belowdeck @Bravo.”
This post came after Zarin and a group of friends appeared on the Monday, April 1 episode of Below Deck, where she criticized the crew and made several food service demands. After the episode aired, she attempted to explain her behavior on an episode of Heather McDonald’s Juicy Scoop podcast, blaming Olender.
“One of the things he emphasized, which is ironic, is that there’d be snacks and food all of the time, everywhere. He actually emphasized that. And completely didn’t deliver,” she said on Tuesday, April 9. “And I have to tell you, when I think about the trip, it was the head stew’s job to make sure things went seamlessly and I kind of blame him for the trip … being kind of a total disaster for my friends, who I felt terrible for.”
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Once the episode aired and Zarin started receiving negative feedback, she was angry that Olender did not come out in her defense.
“[Olender] even apologized and said, ‘I feel bad about the bad pressure you’re getting. You don’t deserve it. You’re a nice lady. You didn’t do anything wrong,'” Zarin told Us Weekly on Friday, April 12. “So I asked him if he would come out and say something and he didn’t.”
She was surprised at Olender’s negative confessionals, even saying that he “just hated Jill” and not the other guests.
“I had a great time with Fraser. We laughed. We did. We had a great time. I had a great time with Barbie,” she also told the outlet. “After I got off the boat, I DMed Fraser. I said, ‘Thank you so much for the most amazing time. We had the best time ever. Love to stay in touch.'”
She claims he responded with, “‘I’ll write it down. Thank you so much. Let’s stay in touch. Love to see you again.’ Did he ever complain about me or say, ‘I don’t ever want to talk to her?’ [No], because I was nice.” But now, she “never want[s] to talk to him.”
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