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Below Deck guests pay to be mocked on TV

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You might assume people acting like total disasters on luxury yachts are getting a free trip in exchange for ratings. Wrong. These wealthy guests pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent the yacht, just for the privilege of letting an exhausted crew secretly mock them on international television.

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