It has been a bit over a 12 months since Captain Lee Rosbach signed off from Beneath Deck, however Bravo followers have a brand new place to search out him on their screens beginning this weekend: Oxygen True Crime.
“I do miss being on TV, and I am glad I am going again,” Capt. Lee tells ET, talking over video chat to advertise his new internet hosting gig on Lethal Waters, an eight-episode true-crime sequence targeted round crimes dedicated at sea. Every week, Lee helps inform untold tales about every little thing from deadly holidays to ghost ships, woven along with skilled, witness and legislation enforcement commentary.
“It is distinctive, it is totally different, however it’s nonetheless in my wheelhouse– no pun supposed,” he provides. “They’re speaking about issues that I find out about, and among the tales that we’re overlaying, I’ve heard about them, as a result of the boating neighborhood is a small neighborhood, and phrase travels actually, actually quick when one thing unhealthy like that occurs.”
Lee says the typical individual would not “understand how a lot crime occurs” out within the ocean.
“Utilizing me, they’ve an skilled on the water that can provide a distinct totally different perspective as to the way it alters issues, that most individuals could or could not take into consideration,” he notes. “Once you lastly see the ultimate final result, regular individuals do not suppose like that they usually do not suppose alongside these strains.”
Whereas Lee would not describe himself as a true-crime devotee previous to signing onto Lethal Waters, he is now absolutely immersed within the fandom.
“I believe it is preferrred for the armchair sleuth,” he says of Lethal Waters. “Once you suppose you’ve got acquired it discovered, one thing proper out of nowhere comes and goes, what do you imply?! You did not see that coming? OK?! And there is quite a lot of that, and all of the stories– and the unhappy half about it’s, all of them have an effect on someone’s life, and never in a constructive manner. Any individual’s mom, someone’s brother, someone’s sister, someone’s father, they usually paid the last word value, and everyone needs to see justice completed.”
Lee’s hopeful among the tales shared on Lethal Waters ship on that promise of justice.
“It might be an unsolved crime the place someone remembers one thing that appeared so insignificant at that time limit, after which impulsively, they only carry it to the authorities’ consideration,” he factors out, “and that is the one little factor that was lacking.”
Lethal Waters hits TV simply after season 11 of Beneath Deck wrapped its run on Monday evening; it was the primary season with out Lee on the helm. In his place was Captain Kerry Titheradge.
“He appears to be doing a an excellent job,” Lee provides as a assessment. “I have never been watching this sequence frequently, and as to why I have never, I could not inform you. I imply, perhaps it is that I am not there anymore, and there is a little little bit of me that identical to needs I used to be. After which, once I see among the crew that he has to cope with, there’s perhaps a much bigger a part of me that goes, ‘Oh, boy, am I glad it is you and never me!'”
Similar goes for among the constitution friends. Lee tuned in for The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis OG Jill Zarin‘s headline-making look.
“She lit it up, did not she?” he cracks. “I imply, ‘I do not like the form of your ice cubes?’ OK… I do not know, let’s get out the chainsaw and see if we will make it a distinct form for you…”
Their personalities might conflict IRL, too, on a future season of The Traitors. The Peacock competitors sequence is understood to forged Bravo-lebs, together with Lee’s longtime chief stewardess, Kate Chastain, who appeared on each season 1 and a pair of. He is recreation to play if the supply comes his manner.
“I kicked that concept round a bit bit,” he admits. “It sounds prefer it’d be quite a lot of enjoyable. I like the speculation behind the present, the place you are tying to determine who’s who. Who’s the individual? Who’s that man? Or, who’s that lady? And the way good are they at that? And there appears to be quite a lot of twists and turns.”
Lethal Waters premieres on Saturday, June 1, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Oxygen. Episodes stream subsequent day on Peacock.
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