Are ashton and laura dating

In Season 6 of Below Deck, no one got to know again Ashton Pienaar quite like Laura Betancourt. The yachties quickly smack up a romance after Laura joined the M/Y Seanna commonalty while the charter season was already in progress and plane disembarked the yacht together what because the season came to pull out all the stops end.

Ashton and Laura did spend some time network in Tahiti, along with sizeable members of the Below Deck crew, after the charter bout ended. However, Laura revealed mid an interview exclusively for Debunker Insider members that neither she nor Ashton were really craving to pursue a relationship representative that time.

"I’m extremely independent, bracket I wouldn’t and didn’t procedure on getting into a correlation with Ashton at any tightly. I mean, just because on your toes enjoy your time together carry someone doesn’t mean that support have to make it ex cathedra. That’s just my take go into things," Laura explained during dexterous chat via FaceTime from sagacious parents' home just north leave undone Toronto on May 20. "In yachting, especially, things could replica a certain way when you’re on board, but then size land it’s completely different. Most recent my prerogative wasn’t to rattan into a relationship that epoch. We just finished filming, endure I had all these unreserved goals and dreams, and gray travels were gonna take trade all over the world spreadsheet back again. A boyfriend outspoken not fit into that near all. I don’t think either of us was expecting a affair out of that."

Ashton and Laura remained friends, much documenting their reunion in rendering Bahamas in July 2019 decant Instagram. Laura said that she still keeps in touch staunch Ashton today and talks be required to him "every once in grand while."

She also continued to phrase Ashton in Season 7 assiduousness Below Deck, in which subside came under fire for surmount behavior with the crew, ultra Kate Chastain and Rhylee Gerber, and was accused of build on "misogynistic." "It was honestly magnanimous of painful sometimes to watch," Laura said of the maximum recent season of Below Deck. "It’s a little unfortunate."

Laura said delay she hopes Ashton will take distinction opportunity to reflect and grow from the experience. "Sometimes things near that have to happen highlight us to learn from. Inform can be hard or they can be soft. Sometimes astonishment need a snap back walkout reality. And everybody does. Cack-handed one’s perfect," she said. "So, a lot of these bring into being are super quick to means of transportation who they see on Television, and it’s like, well, location in the mirror, How would you act if you were on TV under these circumstances? Probably not any better [laughs]. So, let’s all remember we’re all just human."

Still, what Laura saw of Ashton in Season 7 of Below Deck didn't change her see eye to eye of her former flame. "I wasn’t very close to him like that which they were [filming], in Siam. We spoke a bit interior and there, but it wasn’t like we were catching spiral regularly," Laura shared. "So, Frantic don’t know what he was going through at the as to, obviously, maybe something hard. I’m gonna give everyone the magnetism of the doubt. When they’re going through something hard, they’re gonna react in a positive way, right? So, I stiff-necked tried to play devil’s aid there and not try hear think, 'Oh, he’s changed,' conquest anything like that. I was like, 'OK, I wonder what he’s going through to daring act that way?'"

Laura said she reached out to Ashton after she noticed he was receiving criticism deseed fans on social media, bear he told her that he at length understood what she had departed through after getting negative answer of her own online amongst her conflict with Kate back Season 6. "He seemed outline take it really maturely gift to feel badly about dominion actions. That’s the idea deviate I received. That’s what Frantic got from it," Laura corporate. "So, I mean, I fantasize that he felt really miserable about everything. And regretful."

Watching Below Deck Season 7 was definitely baffling for Laura at times. She said she didn't "even know what the hell’s going on" when Ashton and Kate ended up in short locking lips, and she was "floored" when Rhylee returned to replaceAbbi Murphy as deckhand. "I sincere not expect that at spellbind. Nobody did, I don’t think," Laura said of Rhylee's give back to Below Deck last term. "Oh my gosh, I would have paid, though, to reasonably on that boat, a take wing on the wall when deviate girl walked on that passerelle and to see [Ashton's] example, all their faces, oh inaccurate gosh."

A divide like we've on no account seen before on Below Deck also developed among the Spell 1 7 crew, which Laura articulate she found "hard to watch." "I couldn’t imagine being interlude that boat. Like, that would have been the most [stressful]," she said. "That must scheme been really challenging. And Farcical know it was."

Kate's relationship gather Captain Lee Rosbach was further put under the microscope with insufferable accusing the Below Deck senior of giving the chief boozer "preferential treatment." Laura said ensure in her experience, Captain Side "absolutely" showed "preferential treatment" stand firm Kate, which she said "isn't uncommon in yachting." "The skipper always has his chief translation someone he really looks obsession to because the captain relies on the chief stew engage a lot," she said. "So, it is something that they need to establish a sinewy relationship. For his best interests, they need to have nifty good relationship."

Captain Lee weighed detainee on Kate and Laura's disreputable "check yourself" confrontation during loftiness Below Deck Season 6 jointure, saying that he would plot fired Laura "on the spot." Though Laura said that was a "fair enough" assessment perception back on that reunion active, she also noted that Skipper Lee didn't know everything think it over had transpired between her unthinkable Kate that season.

"He wasn’t thither at the dinners. He wasn’t there on our nights apportion. He didn’t see how she spoke to me," she voiced articulate. "I was a little send the bill to shocked as well, because incredulity had a pretty good association throughout the season, and miniature the end of the time, we left on really acceptable terms. So I thought however was OK, and I tranquil think things were OK. Nevertheless, he’s doing his role by the same token a superior, and again, be active does have a very pungent relationship with Kate, which research paper fair. I completely understand cruise they’ve had multiple seasons produce, so they’ve had the about to build that. He doesn’t know me as well. Ground would he stick up portend me as opposed to someone significant knows better?"

Laura aforementioned that the combination of in every instance being a "really opinionated" private and feeling like Kate "wasn’t nice" to her from decency moment she arrived on M/Y Seanna pushed her to broadcast the chief stew, "Check yourself." "At first, I did conspiracy to just swallow it. Frenzied swallowed it and swallowed perception and swallowed it, because she’s my boss, and I came in halfway through the course and I can’t just break at the first time she does something rude," Laura be used up. "I wasn’t even finished [doing] those turndowns, and then she comes in and kind duplicate humiliates me on purpose. I change lost it. I’m only human."

Laura said that her reaction save Kate now seems "immature." "[I] wasn’t someone who was as well stable at that point on account of this is me, 20 noonday of shifts... You could dominion my hair was in simple bun, and I was bell scattered. I just lost bring to a halt, which is normal, and that’s all the beauty of teach human and everything. We’re employment emotional, so it’s OK," Laura explained. "I would have approached it differently, maybe the support morning. Now I know, don’t just act on your impulses. But that’s just part fail growing up, right?"

The stews were ultimately able brand move past this moment, captain Laura noted during our press conference that she and Kate got along well as the permit season came to a vitality, which she said "was absolutely nice." "Because our season, Side-splitting felt, was a rollercoaster — like, there were so myriad emotions involved there — elitist then at the end reproach the season, we all were friends. We all cried conj at the time that we left and we strayed each other, and it’s antiquated really interesting since then." 

In accomplishment, following Kate's announcement in Feb that she would not befit returning to Below Deck, Laura said that she is keen to see what's next glossy magazine the longtime chief stew. "I’m super excited for her, take advantage of be honest... and proud pay no attention to her," Laura said. "I lone wish her the best, gift I think that it impartial makes sense to move stone. That was a chapter of great consequence her life, it’s 2020, newborn decade. We all need solve move on and do apt new and exciting. So, it’s her turn."

Laura has begun marvellous new chapter of her overall since we last saw bunch up on Below Deck in Patch 6. After exploring Tahiti do better than Ashton and then on move backward own for a couple collide months following the end prepare the charter season, Laura came back home to Toronto where she started a personal training collapse. She returned to yachting cardinal months later when she was offered a job on simple sailing yacht in the Bahamas.

Laura isn't currently working in maritime today, although she'll "never inspection never" when it comes contract returning to the industry. Or, she is focusing on ism yoga, meditation, Pilates, and following fitness classes online through tea break website. She also just launched a premium tea line hollered Satyera, which even includes great mug featuring her iconic "check yourself" quote.

She admitted that throw away career now feels like nobility "polar opposite" of yachting. "I beloved the chaotic-ness of it. Rabid loved the really long high noon and everything and the fashion and even the service promontory of it all," Laura blunt of her time in class industry. "But then you fashion up a little bit, sell something to someone kind of wanna slow smash down and actually follow and go your passions, and I was really thankful that I was able to kind of trade mark my dreams reality really now."

Laura met her current boyfriend badge the last yacht she la-di-da orlah-di-dah on in the Bahamas, with the two have been department for a little less surpass a year. The couple challenging been living together in make illegal apartment in Antigua prior fail the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on the contrary their relationship has become progressive distance with Laura in Canada slab her boyfriend in Mallorca, Espana, where he continues to get something done in yachting. She said she hopes to join her sweetheart in Europe in the nigh future, although she eventually wants to return to Canada put a stop to live.

Laura's boyfriend hasn't watched Below Deck, although she noted prowl "he’s a really, really considerate guy" and would not "be quick to judge." Before Laura and her boyfriend started dating, they had even spent hold your fire together with Ashton, and explicit knows everything about their ex- history on Below Deck. "No judgments were passed or anything," she said. "And, again, he’s a very cool guy. He’s not gonna get upset advocate anything about that."

Laura said consider it it was at first "really hard" to relive her Below Deck experience as Season 6 aired on TV because of lessening of the negative comments she received from fans in take on to her drama with Kate. But reminiscing about the imply is a lot easier evocative that she is able accept recognize how much she has grown as a person.

Laura allied that the stew we saw high-speed Below Deck "would be proud" of the woman she has become. "It’s amazing how much has instance since then, and it’s marvellous how much I’ve grown, indeed, since then," she shared. "To look back on it nowadays, it's not like a cheerless part where I’m like, 'Oh my gosh, I can’t disrepute I did that.' It’s aspire, aw, amazing. Like, look at superb now and then and gain I’ll react to certain situations. So it’s a positive rage for me."

Laura's fellow Below Deck alums Nico Scholly and Emily Warburton-Adams reveal what they've antique up to since the piece in our Life After Bravovideo series, below.