The Welsh star of American reality TV series Below Deck Sailing Yacht, Lucy Edmunds, has revealed that it took her “two days” to adjust to the show’s hectic filming schedule. The 24-year-old, who is from Cardiff, has been Junior Stewardess on the Parsifal III yacht in the fourth season of the Bravo TV series.
“Filming is 24:7,” Lucy said in an interview with WalesOnline ahead of the series’ final episode being aired. “There's no time off apart from in the bathroom when you go to the toilet. Even then you're straight out and there's a camera on you. You've constantly got a camera in your face but as soon as you're used to it, you're fine.”
According to Lucy, her tasks on the yacht ranged from “anything and everything”. This included making beds and cleaning up after guests onboard. Have you been watching the series? Let us know in the comments.
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Lucy said that ahead of joining the show, which first aired in 2020, she had not seen it before. “I was just basically treating it like my job and I thought that if I just be myself then people are either going to love or hate me. I just wanted to treat it like a job, really, rather than reality TV.
“I literally finished university and then a week later I'd moved out of my house in Cathays and was on a flight to Sardinia. The response to me on Below Deck has been amazing and I'm really lucky to have had so many nice comments. I'm quite clumsy and klutzy and I guess the narrative of the dumb blonde was portrayed and then people thought, ‘Oh actually, she's got it going on. She got a 2:1 in university!’”
When asked to describe Below Deck to someone who’d never seen it before, Lucy said: “It's literally the most relatable reality show out there. We're filmed working and there is nothing that isn’t filmed. It's like in a normal job - there's going to be times where you don't want to work, you're upset, you're tired. There are always times in your job where you're like, I don't want to be here or go away. That's all filmed and it’s just the reality of working on a super yacht.”
She then recalled how the “wildest” moment in filming came when she got the chance to try a whiskey shot that’s worth $1,000. A self-confessed ‘vodka gal’, Lucy said she was sceptical about having the shot. “Boss, the owner of the yacht, asked: ‘Lucy, have you ever had this before? No never, I come from Cathays. I drink £5 vodka. He gave it to me and then I got told after it was the price it was and I was shocked!”
Lucy described how she thinks the experience of going on Below Deck has “changed” her. “It made me realise that I need to not take myself as seriously as I do. I'm so hard on myself and anything I’d mess up with, I would go over the top. If I did one little bad thing at work, I would think about it for days.”
On if she’d do anything differently if she appeared on another reality series, Lucy said: “I wouldn't take myself so seriously. I didn't realise I was such a cry baby. There are phone calls with my dad on the show - I would call him a lot after I’d cried and he would calm me down. I need to realise that I'm 24 now and I can do it myself and just chill.”
Lucy confirmed that she has plans to continue TV work, saying she’d be keen to try presenting. “Presenting is definitely a big thing I'd love to do. I hope that my presence on camera is good, but any more reality, I’d definitely consider. I wouldn't do a dating show, though, that's not for me.”
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