Crossover alert! Below Deck has followed various relationships and flings throughout the franchise — but some stars found love with one another outside their seasons.
Malia White‘s introduction to Below Deck MediterraneanSeason 2 featured a love triangle between Adam Glick Wesley Walton. Although Malia and Wes gave their romance another try offscreen — the couple later pulled the plug on their relationship.
The now-bosun revealed that she was a dating chef when she returned to 2020 Tom Checketts. The U.K. native joined the fifth season of the show and the two were reunited. Hindrigo “Kiko” LorranFired by Captain Sandy Yawn.
Malia said that she had ended her relationship with Tom after the show aired. “Yes, Tom and I have split,” she said via Instagram in September 2020. “The details surrounding all of it I am trying to keep a little private just out of respect to him and I. But yes, I am single.”
Later, the Florida native spoke out about the reasons she initiated the split. “Yeah, we were, you know, working on different boats,” she exclusively told Us Weeklyin July 2021. “It was in the pandemic [that]It had just happened. It was impossible for us both to see one another. It was right when the show is coming out, it’s obviously a lot going on in our lives. And, yeah, he found someone else on his boats and I didn’t know for a couple of months.”
Tom, for his part, hasn’t commented on the split or on the infidelity accusations publicly.
At the time, Malia admitted that she wasn’t “in a place to look for romance” when she joined season 6 of Below Deck Med. “I think I even told David [Pascoe about the split, explaining] that everything with Tom and I was falling apart right before we filmed this season,” she added. “I was a mess coming into it and I was just like, ‘You know, I don’t really want to even see men right now.’”
The Bravo personality noted that she wasn’t ruling out a future boatmance, saying, “The people you work around are the ones you build these close relationships with. These are the people we may only see for months. So, you naturally develop feelings toward people.”
Malia hinted in August 2021 that she was dating an engineer who had worked with her on season 6. The same month, Jake BarkerThe duo were only captured once on camera, and she posted an Instagram photo showing them kissing with a heart emoticon.
Scroll down to discover which Below Deck stars made a connection with someone other than their season.
