Bobby Berk had admitted that there was a “situation” with his former Queer Eye co-star Tan France – however that the 2 will at all times be brothers and have since moved on.
It emerged in late 2023 that Bobby was leaving the hit Netflix collection, and he then unfollowed Tan on social media. It led to hypothesis that his departure was as a consequence of a feud between the pair, however the inside designer has now insisted that the pair “will be fine”.
“I hope this interview will help extinguish some of the speculation,” Bobby instructed Vanity Fair because the seventh season of the Netflix actuality present dropped on the platform. “Tan and I had a moment. There was a situation, and that’s between Tan and I, and it has nothing to do with the show. It was something personal that had been brewing — and nothing romantic, just to clarify that.”
“Should I have unfollowed Tan? No,” he added. “Maybe I should have just muted him. But that day, I was angry, and that’s the end of it. We became like siblings — and siblings are always going to fight.”
Bobby additionally shared that his departure got here as a result of the Fab Five – Bobby, Tan, Antoni Poworski, Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness – had solely signed a seven-season contract which got here to an finish in 2022. He claimed that on their remaining day of filming the present season in New Orleans they “stood there, and we took pictures and cried”.
“We thought we were done. Mentally and emotionally, I thought we all moved on. I know I did, and I started planning other things,” he admitted. But as a result of WGA and SAG strikes in 2023, Netflix reached out to the 5 a few new contract as they had been in want of recent content material, and Bobby revealed that he “wasn’t willing to change” the plans he had already made when he believed the present was not returning.
© Byron Cohen“I would have had to pump the brakes on multiple other projects that are already in process. We had mentally just prepared ourselves to move on — that’s why I left.”
Queer Eye is a multi-Emmy award successful collection that sees the 5 males assist a down-on-their-luck “hero” discover self-confidence, enhance each their bodily and psychological well being, and switch their life round.
The collection has labored with folks from Atlanta, Austin, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, in addition to specials set in Australia and Japan.
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