Antoni Porowski has addressed rumours of beef between Queer Eye’s Fab 5. (Getty)
Meals and wine professional Antoni Porowski has tried to clear up rumours of in-fighting among the many forged of Netflix’s Queer Eye.
The Fab 5’s world was rocked final November following the announcement that inside design specialist Bobby Berk wouldn’t be returning to the present after the discharge of season eight in January.
Burke’s announcement spurred a flurry of on-line rumours about potential conflicts among the many publicly buddy-buddy stars, and he has now been changed by fellow design specialist Jeremiah Brent.
Chatting with Leisure Tonight on the Disney/ABC Upfronts occasion final evening (14 Could), Canadian chef Porowski admitted that there’s often stress among the many group, however he shut down recommendations that the forged are always at loggerheads.
“We’re hanging out, we’re going for dinners… all of us hang around collectively. We’ve been sharing a trailer since day one, so yeah, typically we’re not gonna get alongside, however on the finish of the day, we’re a household,” he mentioned, referencing the present Queer Eye line-up.
“We’re like a middle-aged boyband, you understand what I imply? Via thick and skinny, we’re in it collectively.”
The explanations behind Berk’s departure from the present had been apparently plentiful, with Berk himself being underneath the impression that season seven can be the final season for the opposite 4 stars – Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, and Karamo Brown – too, as they’d reached the tip of their contracts.
But the opposite 4 signed new contracts, whereas rumours of a rift between France and Berk escalated. France has since refuted claims that he was eager for Berk to go away the present and get replaced by his good friend, Brent.
Brent will step into Berk’s footwear from the following season onwards.
“He’s only a actually candy man. It’s simply new blood,” Porowski mentioned of Brent.
“He’s simply killing it. He has a tremendous design aesthetic, he cares a lot, which is basically candy, and the one factor I’m a bit salty about is he would possibly even cry greater than me, so I’ve my competitors laid up for me.”
Brent has additionally since cleared the air concerning claims of a rift between the Fab 5 members, urging that there’s “no drama” between any of them.
Because the Fab 5 look forward in the direction of filming season 9 of Queer Eye, they could nonetheless be underneath scrutiny from the present’s followers following a bombshell Rolling Stone investigation earlier this 12 months.
The report included testimonies from manufacturing crew members who alleged that Jonathan Van Ness had “rage points” and would “explode at the least as soon as per week” whereas on set.
Crew members additionally claimed that Van Ness’s on set antics led to there being “completely stress between everyone else” among the many Fab 5, as Van Ness “didn’t wish to ever share the highlight with anybody”.
Van Ness cryptically addressed the state of affairs by way of tune lyrics in an Instagram put up final month, however is but to reply to the claims straight.
Queer Eye is streaming now on Netflix.