We hope you are ready for a major change in below deck fans.
Captain Lee Rosbach is officially exiting the beloved Bravo reality show — and will be replaced one more A member of the cable network family, multiple sources have informed Us Weekly.
Come on down, Captain Kerry Titheradge!
As of this publication, Below Deck Adventure will replace Lee for Season 11 of the nautical series, which begins shooting this weekend in Grenada.
The news of Lee’s exit comes just months after Captain Sandy Youn stepped in to replace the Michigan native during Below Deck Season 10.
At the time, Lee cited health concerns for the need to take leave.
“My injury is getting worse,” he said in a confessional statement at the time, referring to nerve problems that only made it difficult to walk.
“The left side of my body, I can’t feel anything.
“I’m expecting much more progress than I’m experiencing and the most frustrating thing about it is that I can’t do anything about it. It’s difficult.”
During the episodes that appeared last year, Lee was grieving with the support of crutches or a cane.
He eventually abandoned it after not being able to keep a proper eye on his deck and internal teams due to being confined to the St. David’s Bridge or his cabin, and was replaced by Captain Sandy Yawn.
“I’m going back [United] States, get this straight — and as soon as I do — I’ll be back here on the first plane and tell whoever’s on board to get the f—ck off my boat,” Lee quipped back to his costar.
However, now?
It appears as though these same medical issues are too much for the veteran cast member to overcome.
“The back surgery turned out great, it really happened,” he told Us Weekly in December.
“You will find this season that I do something that I have never done before in my career or in my life. And there will be a lot of situations where you’re going to be like, ‘Wow, didn’t see that at all.’
“And this will be true not only for the audience, [but] This was true for me and the crew as well.
You’ll remember that Sandy enraged Lee when she fired Stu without telling Camille Lamb.
Lee tweeted on January 23, “If I were temporarily replacing Captain Sandy on his boat and felt the need to fire one of his crew, I would be the first to tell him that What was I doing and why,” Lee tweeted:
“I agree with her decision, just not how she went about it.”
He also said that Sandy’s move was “lacking in process and respect”.
We think he’d approve of Titheradge, though.
“‘Stay real. Be the same guy I was golfing with,'” Carey previously told Us Weekly about the advice Lee gave her.
“And then I asked him about social media and how to do it. I said, ‘I hear I have to get someone to do it, so I don’t get caught up in it.’
“He goes, ‘No, do your own social media. Don’t let anybody do it.'”