Publish date: 2024-01-10

Faye Clarke's brief Bravo bio touches on her fascinating life story, describing her as a London native who began traveling the world on her parents' dime at age 21 before embarking on her yachting career in Italy. Clarke described some of her adventures during her pre-yachting years to Showbiz Cheatsheet. "I've done bungee jumps and skydives," she said. "I've practically hitchhiked around Vietnam and Cambodia. I was a boxer for eight years, trained in Thailand."

In a 2020 interview for the Stewardess Training Cape Town Instagram page, Clarke revealed that she worked as a professional makeup artist for 15 years, listing her previous employers as the beauty brands Estée Lauder and Bobbi Brown. She said of her decision to make a drastic career change, "I was so exhausted with my job I had at the time, and I couldn't do it anymore. I was so stressed all the time, and I said, 'I need a job where I go to work in a pair of flip-flops."

Applying online for jobs in the yachting industry proved fruitless, so she jetted off to Viareggio, Italy — which might be described as a yacht hotspot — and began trying to physically hand her CV to some of the many yachties working there. This attempt also failed, but she ended up landing her first job after chatting with a wealthy yacht owner and his captain at a local café.

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