How toxic is Netflix’s biggest ‘feel good’ show off-camera? As Jonathan Van Ness slams Queer Eye ‘expose’ – a look at the behind the scenes ‘drama’ including claims of ‘rage issues’ and feuds between the cast

It’s the Netflix hit which is billed as a really feel good makeover present, serving to those that have misplaced their means in life flip it round with the help of the Fab 5; Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Karamo Brown, Tan France and previously Bobby Berk.

Whereas the present has constructed a robust fan base attributable to its hosts’ bigger than life personalities and real affection for the folks they’ve helped, Queer Eye was just lately hit by a scathing expose with accusations of toxicity behind the scenes.

Queer Eye premiered on Netflix in 2018 and instantly turned a popular culture phenomenon, nonetheless it has now been alleged that issues weren’t as rosy as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.

Bobby revealed that there was an off-camera ‘scenario’ between himself and his former co-star Tan, who introduced he was leaving the present after 9 collection final 12 months, sparking wild theories concerning the cause behind his exit.

An explosive Rolling Stone article reported in March that Tan and Anthony ‘conspired’ to get Bobby kicked off the present in favour of hiring the British star’s good friend, Jeremiah Brent, for the brand new collection. Tan has strongly denied the allegations.

The publication additionally accused Jonathan of being a ‘monster’ off-camera and informed how they made the present ‘rising tough to provide’, based on a number of manufacturing sources, who all spoke anonymously. 

Jonathan, who’s trans non-binary and makes use of all pronouns, lastly broke their silence concerning the expose on the podcast Table Manners With Jessie And Lennie Ware, the place he claimed that the accusations weren’t ‘primarily based in actuality.’

He mentioned: ‘I feel lots of people have been like in search of a cause to hate me or like in search of a cause to be like, “See, I at all times knew that they have been a faux c*** and that is the proof.”

Jonathan responded to claims that they have been ’emotionally abusive’, have ‘rage points’, and have been a ‘nightmare’ to work with, with one sources claiming they’d have at the least one outburst per week whereas filming.

They mentioned the forged first discovered of the expose again in December 2023 and so they claimed that quite a lot of the knowledge that had been gathered was ‘taken out of context’ with a view to make them look ‘as dangerous as attainable.’

Jonathan went on to utterly the article as being ‘utterly unfaithful’ and alleged that it was accomplished ‘in dangerous religion’, however did admit their have been occasions after they have ‘snapped’ at folks and ‘may have accomplished higher’.

The bombshell report claimed ‘there’s an actual emotion of worry round them [Jonathan] after they get offended. It is nearly like a cartoon the place it oozes out of them’.

‘It is intense and scary,’ they added, additional claiming that Jonathan was a ‘yeller’ who would ‘explode as soon as per week’.

One supply mentioned that Jonathan has a ‘very heat, very charismatic’ facet to their character which is what the general public sees, however there’s one other facet that comes out behind the scenes.

‘No less than as soon as a day, they would wish to yell at someone. It is likely to be one thing small, however there’s at all times going to be someone to level out and blame and make the villain of the day,’ they alleged.

Whereas every forged member has gone on to seek out success on their very own phrases, Jonathan was arguably the breakout star of the collection.

Not solely doe they’ve essentially the most social media followers of the group, they’ve revealed three books -including a New York Occasions bestseller- and launched the hit podcast Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.

The podcast was become its personal standalone Netflix collection in 2022 and so they even have  a profitable haircare line referred to as JVN, which is stocked in Sephora.

Rolling Stone additionally claims that the Queer Eye forged have been engaged in ‘petty disputes and competitors’ with one another over display time and who was the ‘high star’ on the present. Dailymail.com reached out Jonathan’s administration on the time.

Inside designer Bobby give up the collection final November after six years to concentrate on different initiatives.

Following the Rolling Stones expose, Tan was compelled to disclaim allegations that he and Antony had ‘campaigned’ to get inside designer Bobby changed with Jeremiah.

Addressing the report on Instagram on March 8, Tan, 41, mentioned, ‘My former colleague getting fired had nothing to do with me making an attempt to get my good friend employed.’

He continued: ‘Netflix and the manufacturing firms did a full on casting. I did not put my good friend up for the job – they ended up getting it as a result of they have been the most effective particular person for the job.

‘Am I so glad that they’ve the job? Uh huh. I actually am – I feel they’re gonna be unbelievable on the present. However I did not get them employed by eliminating someone else.’

Regardless of Tan’s assertion that Bobby was ‘fired’, Bobby himself has publicly said that he selected to stroll away from the hit collection attributable to scheduling conflicts.

Nonetheless, based on Rolling Stone, Bobby was allegedly ‘blindsided’ by the best way his departure performed out. The publication additionally claimed that Bobby had been butting heads with Tan and Jonathan on set.

Whereas Bobby has but to remark publicly on the claims, he shared a cryptic submit to X (previously Twitter) after Tan’s Instagram video. 

The submit was a GIF of former First Girl Michelle Obama saying, ‘After they go low, we go excessive.’

The ninth season of Queer Eye, which is about in Las Vegas, is about to hit Netflix later this 12 months. 

When Bobby announced he was exiting Queer Eye final November, many followers believed it was as a result of he was essentially the most under-appreciated member of the Fab 5.

The design knowledgeable appeared to do essentially the most work every episode renovating and redesigning complete houses and work areas for his or her chosen ‘heroes’.

Bobby clarified to Vainness Truthful in January: ‘You’ll have by no means discovered me quoted as saying that I’ve crucial job and I do essentially the most work. All 5 of us are of equal significance.’

‘Queer Eye has been essentially the most superb present that I could not have ever imagined. It has been a life-changing second. I am leaving one thing that may be a big a part of my life. Despite the fact that it is my resolution, it nonetheless wasn’t a straightforward one.’

The complete forged signed seven-cycle contracts ending September 2022, and so they believed season eight can be the ultimate one.

Bobby recalled: ‘We took footage and cried. We thought we have been accomplished. Mentally and emotionally, I assumed all of us moved on. I do know I did, and I began planning different issues.’

One 12 months later, the Fab 5 have been shocked with model new four-cycle contracts, and everybody determined to signal on apart from Bobby.

‘With solely one in all us not coming again, Netflix felt [it] may recast one particular person [for the Las Vegas-set ninth season],’ Bobby defined.

‘There have been positively feelings. However every one in all us had our the explanation why we did what we did. I am unable to be mad – for a second I used to be. 

‘All of the plans that I had made once I thought we weren’t coming again, I simply wasn’t keen to alter these. I’d have needed to pump the brakes on a number of different initiatives which might be already in course of. 

‘We had mentally simply ready ourselves to maneuver on – that is why I left.’

Nonetheless, he did admit that he ‘had a second’ with co-star Tan, which induced him to unfollow the style marketing consultant on Instagram.

‘There was a scenario, and that is between Tan and I, and it has nothing to do with the present. It was one thing private that had been brewing – and nothing romantic, simply to make clear that,’ Bobby admitted.

‘Ought to I’ve unfollowed Tan? No. Possibly I ought to have simply muted him. However that day, I used to be offended, and that is the tip of it. We turned like siblings, and siblings are at all times going to struggle.’

When the feuding buddies gained their first-ever Emmy Awards for excellent structured actuality program for his or her roles as Queer Eye producers, they embraced throughout the January seventh Artistic Arts Emmy ceremony.

‘We each mentioned congratulations. And that is the place we’re proper now,’ he famous.

‘I’ll at all times have a really particular place in my coronary heart for him and [Tan’s husband] Rob and the youngsters. I can foresee in six months or a 12 months, Tan and I at one another’s home being good. The Emmys was already the primary bandage on that wound.’