Jonathan Van Ness will return for Queer Eye season eight. (Getty)
Jonathan Van Ness, grooming professional and one fifth of Queer Eye’s Fab 5, has shared a put up with some cryptic lyrics within the caption, weeks after allegations about his on-set behaviour had been reported.
Final month, seven people who’ve labored on Netflix’s Queer Eye accused the 37-year-old hairstylist and podcast host of being a “nightmare” to work with, and described Van Ness as having “rage points”.
One supply described to Rolling Stone how Van Ness, who’s non-binary and makes use of he/she/they pronouns, would “explode” steadily whereas filming, and create an “intense and scary” ambiance.
“When he comes on set, the whole lot modifications if he’s in a foul temper,” one supply defined, including that “working with him could be very tough in any capability”.
Regardless of calls from followers for the star to handle the allegations, they’ve remained tight-lipped and continued to share unrelated content material on social media.
Nonetheless, in a put up final night time (14 April), Van Ness included a defiant caption with a sequence of photographs and pictures.
“Doesn’t matter what they are saying, the jealous video games that folks play… title that tune,” they wrote, alongside a variety of photographs together with one with Queer Eye star Tan France, and a handful of memes.
The quote is a reference to the music “Our Lips Are Sealed” by The Go-Go’s, which additionally contains the lyrics: “There’s a weapon that we should use in our defence: silence.”
Some followers used the put up as a possibility to press Jonathan Van Ness additional concerning the allegations, with one writing: “By not addressing the allegations of bullying, these posts come off as an enormous [middle finger emoji]…”
“By not addressing the diva and bullying rumours this appears simply petty,” wrote one other.
The final picture in Van Ness’s Instagram dump was a photograph of all 5 members of Queer Eye’s Fab 5, together with new addition to the group, inside designer Jeremiah Brent.
Brent will be part of the present within the subsequent season, after house developer Bobby Burke introduced his departure from the Fab 5 in November final 12 months.
A part of the the Rolling Stone investigation into the Queer Eye set included allegations that member Tan France “campaigned” to have Berk changed by his good friend, Brent.
But, final month, France shot down the declare in an Instagram video, declaring that Berk’s departure had “nothing to do with” him making an attempt to get Brent employed. Tan added that he didn’t put Brent up for the job, quite Brent was chosen as “they had been the very best particular person for the job”.
The newest season of Queer Eye, season eight, is the final to characteristic Bobby Berk, and Jeremiah Brent will take his place from season 9 onwards.