Kyle Viljoen‘s shady feedback about Natalya Scudder on Under Deck Mediterranean are making Tumi Mhlongo query her friendship with him.
Bravo provided a glimpse on Monday, October 23, at an upcoming episode the place Kyle and Natalya throw digs at one another.
Within the clip, Natalya pokes enjoyable at Kyle’s habits in entrance of constitution friends, saying, “Kyle is lounging once more.” Later, Kyle tells Tumi that she’s fortunate to not be sharing a room with Natalya.
“Natalya can speak. You could be so glad,” he notes earlier than Tumi asks, “That I’m not rooming together with her?”
In a confessional, Tumi admits she has issues about how Kyle speaks about her when she isn’t round, including, “I assumed they had been pals but when he’s speaking s—t about her he’s undoubtedly speaking s—t about me.”
Season 8 of Under Deck Mediterranean initially launched Natalya because the momentary chief stew whereas Tumi and Kyle had been coping with immigration points. Whereas off the boat, Tumi and Kyle shaped a friendship which continued as soon as they formally began working collectively.
Nonetheless, Tumi’s relationship with Natalya has confronted loads of challenges. Natalya was beforehand at odds together with her season 7 chief stew Natasha Webb and Kyle earlier than patching issues up with the latter as soon as they stopped filming. After a tough introduction to Natalya, Tumi warned Kyle that she wasn’t afraid to face her floor together with her inside crew.
“Supplying you with a heads up b/w us. I do know you’re mates together with her, however Nat wants to remain in her lane bc Tumi dropping her s—t will find yourself in her strolling off bc she had a diva second,” Tumi wrote in a textual content throughout the October 9 episode, to which Kyle responded, “I’m sorry to listen to this — I did let you know she’s one thing that got here for all of us.”
As Tumi’s points with Natalya obtained worse, Kyle stepped in to aim to mediate the scenario. He advised Natalya about Tumi’s textual content to him, which Natalya then talked about to Captain Sandy after an argument together with her chief stew.
“You’re in a management position and you should rise above and determine this out as a result of proper now I’m able to put you each off the boat,” Sandy advised Tumi about how one can deal with the scenario.
The captain elaborated on her response to the drama, telling cameras on the October 16 episode, “It’s a must to respect one another within the office. You possibly can’t do that. That is habits that may’t occur. On this scenario I have to defuse it however then you should step away and let the chief deal with it. As a result of if I draw the road for them, they’re by no means going to respect one another. Having stated that, if I hear Natalya screaming at Tumi once more and Tumi can’t defuse it, then I have to step in and decide.”
Throughout his personal confessional, Kyle admitted that he had regrets about getting concerned.
“I really like [some] good gossip. However I’m realizing that my involvement has made the scenario worse. I shared with Tumi how my time went with Natalya [during season 7]. And Tumi’s response was, ‘I do know you’re mates together with her, however she wants to remain in her lane. Tumi dropping her s—t will finish in her strolling off as a result of she had a diva second,’” he detailed. “I’m actually good at getting data. My greatest drawback? I’m not good at conserving the data. It’s not good. Belief me, I do know.”
Tumi and Natalya had been in the end in a position to make amends, whereas Kyle nonetheless discovered himself caught within the center resulting from his particular person friendship with every coworker.
“Though I really like a very good tea and I’m glad that Natalya and Tumi made up concerning the textual content message — I’m simply not pleased with Natalya,” he stated. “Informing Sandy and utilizing my identify in that … Me revealing Tumi’s message to Natalya was an act of friendship. It wasn’t for Natalya to weaponize me towards different folks.”
Kyle concluded: “There’s solely room for one gossip on this boat proper now and that’s me. I’m the tea queen. Self-proclaimed.”
Under Deck Mediterranean airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.