‘WWHL’: Captain Sandy Yawn Addresses Hypocrisy After Fans Call Her Out For Once Waking Up A Chef To Cut A Cucumber

By Samantha Nungesser @samjnungesser
Published June 11, 2024, 9:17 a.m. ET

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Captain Sandy Yawn is treading dangerous waters in the Bravoverse for scolding second stew Elena “Ellie” Dubaich after she woke up Chef Johnathan “Jono” Shillingford to make the Below Deck Mediterranean charter guests a late-night snack. However, longtime fans have been quick to point out a Season 6 scene in which Yawn is just as guilty of disturbing a chef’s beauty sleep.

“Captain Sandy is so full of it. How does she not remember that she woke up Tom to cut up a cucumber?????” one viewer wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter),” while another added, “Captain Sandy once had crew wake the chef to CUT A CUCUMBER!  Now, they shouldn’t wake the chef?”

A third said, “Never been so frustrated watching below deck before 🤣 don’t wake the chef? The CHEF cooks the FOOD and [is] always woken when food is requested, Captain Sandy herself has woken a chef so this is a joke.”

The debate remained a hot topic on Monday night’s (June 10) episode of Watch What Happens Live, where two virtual fans called in to ask Yawn about the hypocrisy.

“We got this a lot,” host Andy Cohen chimed in. “Sandy! You said never wake up a chef. You woke up a chef to cut a cucumber!”

While Yawn admitted it was a “good question,” she had a perfectly good explanation for why the scenarios were different.

“Well, I didn’t know that’s what it was,” she said, referring to the cucumber. “But it was during the day. It wasn’t at night. It wasn’t after dinner service, it was the after-breakfast service.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Yawn doubled down on her hot take that one should never wake a sleeping chef, noting that while Shillingford “handled it well,” she has worked with chefs in the past who would “throw things when they wake them up.”

However, Chef Dave White, who starred in Below Deck Med Season 7, had a different opinion.

“I have [been woken up], yeah, multiple times. To be honest, I’ve been doing it for a long time so I’ve gotten used to it. I don’t want someone to mess it up, though, either,” White said from the WWHL audience, adding that he personally “would like to get woken up.”

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