{"id":29468,"date":"2019-08-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1067345"},"modified":"2019-08-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:00:00","slug":"chef-ben-returns-to-below-deck-mediterranean-but-is-everybody-happy-to-see-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/chef-ben-returns-to-below-deck-mediterranean-but-is-everybody-happy-to-see-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Ben Returns to Below Deck Mediterranean, But Is Everybody Happy to See Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019723\/rs_634x1024-190823061058-634-Ben-Robinson-Below-Deck-LT-082319-GettyImages-451280452.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ben Robinson, Chef Ben, Below Deck Mediterranean\" alt=\"Ben Robinson, Chef Ben, Below Deck Mediterranean\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Tommy Garcia\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25\">\n<p>He&#8217;s back!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh god, that face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, Chef <strong>Ben Robinson<\/strong> is back.<\/p>\n<p>E! News has your exclusive sneak peek at <em>Below Deck Mediterranean<\/em> featuring the return of the fan-favorite\u2014and sometimes divisive\u2014chef. <strong>Hannah<\/strong> is on the fence about his return, which is understandable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard amazing things about you,&#8221; Captain <strong>Sandy Yawn<\/strong> tells him. &#8220;Nothing like being thrown right into it, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chef Ben is there two hours before charter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello, lovelies. I am back,&#8221; Ben says in his confessional. So, what&#8217;s he been up to? &#8220;Since Greece, I&#8217;ve actually done quite a lot, believe it or not.&#8221; He has a catering company out of Fort Lauderdale, but said he&#8217;s been traveling around &#8220;cooking for people all over the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"html-external-2\" data-type=\"async\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-html-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>In the clip above, Hannah gets real about her past with Ben.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s interesting,&#8221; Hannah says about Ben. &#8220;Ben is a great chef and the guests absolutely love him, but I&#8217;m really nervous. He&#8217;s all about extremes. He will have your back or he will stab you in it,&#8221; Hannah says in a confessional.<\/p>\n<p>Will they, uh, rekindle anything? As <strong>Aesha<\/strong> says in the exclusive sneak peek, &#8220;This going to be interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p><em>Below Deck Mediterranean<\/em> airs Mondays, 9 p.m. on Bravo.<\/p>\n<p>(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1067345\/chef-ben-returns-to-below-deck-mediterranean-but-is-everybody-happy-to-see-him?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Garcia\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images He&#8217;s back! &#8220;Oh god, that face.&#8221; Yep, Chef Ben Robinson is back. E! News has your exclusive sneak peek at Below Deck Mediterranean featuring the return of the fan-favorite\u2014and sometimes divisive\u2014chef. Hannah is on the fence about his return, which is understandable. &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard amazing things about you,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 12:18:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}