Bobby Berk is explaining his resolution to unveil plans for a brand new tv sequence simply at some point after Netflix shared the information that “Queer Eye” would conclude after its forthcoming tenth season.
In an interview with Folks printed final week, the inside designer dismissed the implication he’d intentionally introduced his forthcoming stint because the host of HGTV’s “Junk or Jackpot?” on July 10 in response to the “Queer Eye” cancellation, confirmed by Netflix July 9.
“I have to say, I swear on my mother’s life, my show announcement date was set,” Berk mentioned. “No, this was planned. Show announcements don’t happen on a whim.”
For eight seasons, Berk was a member of the “Queer Eye” Fab 5, co-starring alongside Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness on the Emmy-winning makeover sequence.
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In November 2023, he confirmed his departure from “Queer Eye” following the eighth season, which dropped final 12 months and was set in New Orleans. Virtually instantly, rumors of behind-the-scenes tensions between him and France started to swirl amongst followers and media shops.
Simply weeks after asserting his exit, Berk admitted to clashing with France on set, however mentioned the pair’s working relationship had nothing to do along with his resolution to go away the present. Talking to Self-importance Truthful in January 2024, he mentioned the solid’s contract had expired about two years earlier and that he had already “moved on” by the point Netflix returned to the negotiating desk.
A Rolling Stone exposé printed that March, nonetheless, alleged France and Porowski had engaged in “mean-girl antics” to get Berk axed from the sequence to make means for his eventual alternative, Jeremiah Brent. In a brief video posted to Instagram within the wake of the Rolling Stone article, France denied the accusation.
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In his chat with Folks final week, Berk acknowledged one in every of his former “Queer Eye” co-stars had known as him out for the timing of the “Junk or Jackpot?” announcement.
“Even Karamo [Brown] was like, ‘Girl, the day after?’ I’m like, ‘No, no, no. I promise you it was already planned,’” he defined. “Some people were like, ‘Couldn’t you have waited?’ And I’m like, ‘Well, yes, but no.’”
He went on to notice: “I mean, [Netflix] could have easily given me a heads-up on when that was going to be announced. I mean, I was on the show for [eight] seasons, but yeah, it’s fine.”
Set for launch later this 12 months, “Junk or Jackpot?” follows Berk as he helps householders throughout the U.S. determine if they need to half with their distinctive collections — together with “superhero figurines” and uncommon puppets and dolls, and miniature units” — to lift funds for renovating their outdated houses, in response to press notes.
