Below Deck behind the scenes – ‘overwhelming’ 18 hour days and laundry lessons

Below Deck icon Hayley De Sola Pinto has opened up about some of the show’s behind the scenes secrets, including the hiring process and her first day on deck.

The Bravo star spoke exclusively with Daily Star and told us how she was approached for Season 10.

She explained: “I got approached around lockdown, it was Covid times and I was watching a lot of Below Deck – as you do – and I started seeing all these adverts for yachties for the show.

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“I actually applied and they got hold of me a few hours later. I was sure they did that to everyone but apparently not! That was that, spoke to them, went through the interview process and that was it!

“I went through to the show, it all happened so quickly to be honest, it was a bit surreal.”

Hayley was so nervous in the lead up to filming that she admitted she was “sh**ting herself” because she “hadn’t worked on a boat for four years”.

She hilariously quipped: “There are ways to be rusty and going on a television show was not the place! I don’t know what I was thinking!”

“I was definitely rusty, but even before when I had worked on the boats, I’d only done temporary work. Stewing work, not seasons, not four to five months straight. It was three weeks, two weeks, one week.”

The star was shown what to do by her crew mates as she “didn’t have a lot of experience in housekeeping and laundry”.

For Hayley, the camera crew’s presence made things worse as she got “so overwhelmed” she began to doubt herself.

“I was like: ‘Oh my god, this is happening!’ All I’d been thinking about for the four months before. I was so overwhelmed […] I started to think: ‘Oh my god, what the hell is going on? What am I doing?”

Hayley admitted that she had been “so worried about the TV show” that she “completely forgot” she was there to do a job.

“I was like: ‘Sh**, I have to do some work! The day started and it was non stop. Honestly, the first day, we worked 18 hours. I felt like I’d been put in a washing machine!”

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