Or so we thought. "This season, Captain Lee didn't have Kate [Chastain] with him anymore and I think he needed a little ace in the hole. Somebody he could rely on," Lucas explained to Digital Spy. "He definitely reached out to me to come back and work with him again." And the rest is history — it's the clean slate we can only assume he wanted and needed.
However, it's safe to say that Lucas' return to reality TV yachting hasn't exactly been as smooth sailing as he thought it would be. Like many production companies, the team was in the middle of filming when the pandemic hit. Speaking to Metro.co.uk about the impact the virus had on the most recent season, Lucas revealed, "It's definitely going to affect the season in a quite massive way." As of this writing, the Season 8 is airing episodes shot in February 2020, so we guess we'll just have to tune in each week to find out exactly how the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc the an already drama-filled show.
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