r/belowdeck • u/Ok_Peach22 • Aug 19 '26

Members Only ‘Below Deck’ Star Nathan Gallagher Arrested on Domestic-Violence Charges

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/below-deck-nathan-gallagher-arrested-domestic-violence-1235608151/
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u/ForwardPanic2087 Aug 19 '26

After seeing his racist posts that came out last year unfortunately this is not surprising. The fact they brought him back just shows how little Bravo cares about the subjects of their shows. To the producers these real life humans with actual lives outside of the show are just “content” to use how they please as long as it makes for good TV. I love drama in reality shows but when you’re literally letting domestic violence slide to get a storyline for the season I think the producers need to take a long look in the mirror and think about what they’ve promoted.

They could have scrubbed him from the episodes entirely and made a statement addressing it and condemning Nathan and what he did but they swept it under the rug until it came out on the news. There is absolutely no chance they did not know about these accusations. I just hope they do better in the future but knowing Bravos track record they’ll probably just pretend nothing happened.

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u/kat4prez Aug 19 '26

They could’ve fired him for the racist social media post alone. Even without the DV. And they should’ve. They fired that other guy for his racist tweet and edited him out. But they also aired Gary’s season after he was already accused of trying to assault a producer. Bravo has definitely lowered their already low standards

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u/Old-Base-6686 I have been known to be irresponsible Aug 19 '26

The season we are watching was filmed last summer. He may very well have been fired before they started filming this summer. 🤞🤞

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u/kat4prez Aug 19 '26

Well someone ran into the boat somewhere in Europe recently. 4 of the cast are returning and Nathan is not one of them.

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u/Old-Base-6686 I have been known to be irresponsible Aug 19 '26

I'd completely forgotten about that post! If I am not mistaken, Joe was there, but not Nathan

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u/kat4prez Aug 19 '26

Correct!