| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Elliott Neese |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | Born in 1982. As of 2025, he is around 43 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Spouse / Partner / Dating | Currently not married, possibly single. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 2 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | American |
| When did Elliott Neese leave Deadliest Catch? | In 2014, Neese left the show during shooting for Season 11 and later claimed he had been to rehab. |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Elliott Neese is an American commercial fisherman and also a licensed ship captain and angler. He is best known for his starring role on the Discovery Channel’s The Deadliest Catch.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Elliot was born in Alaska in 1982 into a regular American family that was heavily involved in fishing.
- It is believed that he currently still lives in Alaska but is often seen in more tropical climates.
- Reportedly, Elliott is currently dating a young lady, Erika Fidenbergs, who he met while in rehab in Hawaii.
- Neese also has two children, a son (born in 2006) and a daughter Shannon from his previous long-term relationship with Valerie Gunderson.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Elliot negotiated the American education system in Alaska as a child and a teenager with moderate success, but study and academic learning were never going to be his first love.
- After graduating from high school, Elliott acted quickly to become a fisherman.
- He had already begun fishing and angling at the tender age of twelve and had progressed to Pot Fishing by the age of nineteen.
Job and Career : Salary and Net Worth
- Elliott started his career in fishing as a deck boss before moving on to become the boat’s engineer and later sub-captain as well, in a short span of time.
- The boat he works for is the Rambling Rose. It is the same boat that he is most associated with on The Deadliest Catch. Neese is well-known for becoming one of the show’s youngest captains at just 28 years old.
- As the captain of the Rambling Rose, Elliott joined the cast of the reality show The Deadliest Catch.
- Imbued with a sense of adventure and natural charisma, Neese’s presence on the show divided opinion amongst viewers right up until the end of the ninth season. Finally, when he was involved in an argument with the owner of the Rambling Rose, he was fired as he refused to take the boat out in an ice storm.
- Despite a small online campaign to have him removed from the show on a permanent basis, Elliott returned to the show later in series nine, with his own crew and his boat called The Saga.
- Elliott and his crew remained an important part of the Deadliest Catch, until season eleven when he bowed out due to personal problems.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- The problems that Elliot was suffering from when he stepped down from the cast of The Deadliest Catch were unspecified at the time but later believed to be serious addiction issues.
- Determined to get his life back, he checked into the Passengers rehab facility in Hawaii, where he completed 60 of rehabilitation and checked out after having beaten his demons. Neese often shared the process & what he did with frequent, public posts on his Twitter (now called X) feed.
- Although there is still some mixed opinion about him, Elliott is often regarded as a hero by some, as he was involved in helping to save the boat’s crew when it ran aground in ice.
- Risking his own life, Elliott helped save the crew’s life and helped them out of the sinking ship.
- Now in his semi-retirement, Neese has refuted that he will ever return to The Deadliest Catch but continues to have an active Twitter (now called X) account and often shares pictures of himself Angling in central America or spearfishing in various tropical destinations.
Elliott,
You lazy worthless man, you were not ever a leader of that vessel or any other!!! O.K. You got to be the wheelhouse boy but then you absolutely abused it. You know what I am talking about…now you probably remember me, you chump!
Neese aka Boy Wonder & I do mean Boy…Maybe already doing time? He was charged back in December of 2019 & was looking at between 5 to 40 years of Federal time. So much for Rehab in Hawaii. AFTER a 2 months vacation, he returned home & went right back to the d*ugs. He couldn’t accept that he failed as an addict & was even a worse drug dealer so, he drew attention to his big-shot self & wound up on the radar & being watched by the authorities. The police obtained a warrant & raided his house. TO NO surprise they found met, a scale, a money counter & $80K in cash that was confiscated. Rather than request his attorney asap & keep his mouth shut, invoking his 5th amendment right, he admits to the authorities to be a dealer supplying the entire Kenai peninsula & then goes on to tell them WHO supplies him…A TRUE American hero right there folks, & setting ONE HELL of an example for his children I may add. Can’t imagine why he & their mother fought ALL the time. She was literally trying to raise 3 children, not 2. It’s impossible to have a relationship or co-parent with an addict who not only doesn’t care about his children, he never cares about their mother either.
Elliott only cares about Elliott & does a REAL shitty job of it. He’ll be lucky if he survives on the inside or the outside. He’s sealed his fate by opening his mouth & because of his idiocy, he has not only put himself in danger but, he’s also jeopardized his children’s safety as well as their mother’s. Talk about unbelievable stupidity.
Neese aka Boy Wonder & I do mean Boy…Maybe already be doing time? He was charged back in December of 2019 & was looking at between 5 to 40 years of Federal time. So much for Rehab in Hawaii. AFTER a 2 months vacation, he returned home & went right back to the drugs. He couldn’t accept that he failed as an addict & was even a worse drug dealer so, he drew attention to his big-shot self & wound up on the radar & being watched by the authorities. The police obtained a warrant & raided his house. TO NO surprise they found heroin, meth, a scale, a money counter & $80K in cash that was confiscated. Rather than request his attorney asap & keep his mouth shut, invoking his 5th amendment right, he admits to the authorities to be a heroin dealer supplying the entire Kenai peninsula & then goes on to tell them WHO supplies him…A TRUE American hero right there folks, & setting ONE HELL of an example for his children I may add. Can’t imagine why he & their mother fought ALL the time. She was literally trying to raise 3 children, not 2. It’s impossible to have a relationship or co-parent with an addict who not only DOESN’T care about his children, he never cares about their mother either.
Elliott only cares about Elliott & does a REAL shitty job of it. He’ll be lucky if he survives on the inside or the outside. He’s sealed his fate by opening his mouth & because of his idiocy, he has not only put himself in danger but, he’s also jeopardized his children’s safety as well as their mother’s. Talk about unbelievable stupidity.
Elliot Neese? Wasn’t he that the guy who smoked crack on Deadliest Catch and was later fired?
You got caught smoking crack on the show now you are fired…put down the pipe yo!
Elliot, you are too ef*ing stupid to be a crab fisherman. Jake Anderson has more skill than you ever will have.