Captain Lee Rosbach may have left Below Deck, but he still has a lot of opinions. Many of them are to do with the Bravoverse, and now Captain Lee is having his say on Kyle Cooke.
Speaking via his podcast, Salty With Captain Lee, he touched on the demise of Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard’s engagement. He is good friends with Summer House star, Carl, who also lost a close family member to addiction. Carl now lives sober, and some viewers suspect that Lindsay’s partying may have contributed to the breakup.
But Captain Lee has not mentioned that aspect. Instead, he thinks Kyle is to blame for at least some part of the split.
“Words have impact,” Captain Lee said
“You know the guy who really kind of ticks me off in that whole situation? Kyle [Cooke].” Captain Lee said during his podcast on November 1. “I think he contributed to a certain degree.”
“Like that one night he got totally sh*t-faced drunk and called Lindsay everything under the book that you could think of in front of Carl,” the captain explained. “And Carl sat there and took it and didn’t get all bent out of shape and aggressive on him. Which he had every right to do.”
The Season 7 incident pitted Carl against Lindsay after Kyle spoke disrespectfully to her. Carl, as Lindsay’s boyfriend, was put in an awkward position between Kyle and Lindsay.
Perhaps the argument was a catalyst. But this was filmed even before Carl proposed to Lindsay at the end of the season in 2022. He ended the engagement months before the planned wedding earlier this year.
What did Kyle say about the separation?
Kyle made comments to E! News about the breakup earlier this fall. “My take on it is I don’t think Carl knew he was actually calling it off until the very conversation was happening,” he said. “I didn’t catch wind of that being the outcome until after the fact.”
Captain Lee responded to these comments, and reprimanded Kyle on his perceived involvement. He stated, “Then Kyle comes out and says he could see the cracks in the relationship. Wake up, you were part of the cracks. You are supposed to be Carl’s best friend and all you do every waking moment that you’re talking to Carl is badmouthing Lindsay. Is that what friends do?”
That sounds like some hyperbole, but the Stud of the Sea is entitled to his opinion. He puts a lot of weight on Kyle’s interference and is surprised the two Summer House lads remained friends after the split.
Captain Lee concluded, “I feel bad for both of them. I think people that don’t know should realize that they don’t know and they shouldn’t speculate because their words have impact. I don’t know how Kyle and Carl stayed friends.”
Interestingly, Lindsay also chided Kyle for his strained friendship with her. Though they did seem on good terms before the split. In a prior interview, Lindsay exclusively told Us Weekly that, “Kyle has always had it out for me. He thinks that I’m some master manipulator who controls the universe and he’s good friends with Carl,” she told Us. “I think part of him wants to give Carl an ally, and part of him just always thinks I’m the one who’s in the wrong. I’m used to it at this point.”
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