Jill Zarin ‘done’ with ‘Below Deck’ star Fraser Olender after he wouldn’t publicly defend her
Icing him out.
Jill Zarin wants nothing to do with Chief Stew Fraser Olender after he didn’t publicly defend her when fans called her “absolutely insufferable” on “Below Deck.”
“Fraser and I, and we kept in touch for a year. But after that, I never want to talk to him. Not at all up until this week,” Zarin told Us Weekly on Friday.
The “Real Housewives of New York” alum, 60, claimed that that Olender “apologized” to her privately and told her, “I feel bad about the bad pressure you’re getting. You don’t deserve it. You’re a nice lady. You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“So I asked him if he would come out and say something and he didn’t,” she alleged.
Zarin explained that he messaged her on Instagram over “hate” she was getting, and she asked him, “‘Well, can you say something?’ And he ignored it.”
“I’m done. He doesn’t want to listen,” she said.
Olender’s confessionals –– where he said in part that Zarin was “crawling into my brain and eating away at my soul” –– took the “Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip” star by surprise because they kept in touch after her stay.
“I had a great time with Fraser. We laughed. We did. We had a great time,” she said. “After I got off the boat, I DMed Fraser. I said, ‘Thank you so much for the most amazing time. We had the best time ever. Love to stay in touch.’”
Zarin claimed that he then thanked her and agreed to “stay in touch” and would “love to see you again.”
“Did he ever complain about me or say, ‘I don’t ever want to talk to her?’ [No], because I was nice,” she said.
Zarin reflected on her time on the superyacht as “great,” but she “didn’t enjoy the commentary saying nasty things about me behind my back and not giving me an opportunity to respond to any of the criticism.”
However, Zarin did acknowledge stewardess, Barbara “Barbie” Pascual, who previously defended her on social media.
“You guys, I watched the show back, and I don’t think that Jill was as bad as it looked, and I just wanna also say that there were so many other moments where she was super fun and sweet and nice,” Pascual said in an Instagram Story selfe video last week.
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Zarin shared the comments after blaming Olender for their “disaster” of a trip.
“When I think about the trip, it was the head stew’s job to make sure things went seamlessly, and I kind of blame him for the trip being a total disaster,” she said on Tuesday’s episode of the “Juicy Scoop” podcast.
Fans called Zarin “spoiled” and “entitled” after she appeared on the Bravo show and requested a specific kind of ice cubes, a bell for constant contact with crew members and toiletries in the bathroom.
A rep for Olender said he will not be commenting.
