Bobby Berk admits ‘there was a situation’ with Tan France amid Queer Eye feud rumours

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk has damaged his silence on the rumoured feud with his forged mate Tan France.

Berk, the present’s inside design skilled, introduced final November that he was leaving Queer Eye after its newest season.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Berk mentioned he hoped he might “extinguish some of the speculation” about his exit, including: “I want people to know that Tan and I – we will be fine.”

He continued: “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.”

Rumours of a feud had been sparked when Berk unfollowed France on Instagram final yr.

“Should I have unfollowed Tan? No,” Berk mentioned. “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.”

As for the rationale behind his departure from the hit sequence, Berk mentioned that he and the opposite members of the Fab Five – France, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness and Karamo Brown – had initially signed a seven-season contract.

When that was up, Berk made different plans. However, when Netflix had been left with a lack of recent content material following final yr’s Hollywood strikes, they revived the sequence.

“All the plans that I had made when I thought we weren’t coming back, I just wasn’t willing to change those,” mentioned Berk. “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.”

The eighth season of Queer Eye arrived on Netflix on Wednesday 24 January.

The sequence follows the 5 LGBT+ professionals as they rework the lives of struggling people utilizing their respective ability units.

Initially broadcast as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2003, the unique sequence aired on Bravo till 2007 earlier than being relaunched by Netflix with a new forged in 2018.

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Berk first shared the information of his departure on X/Twitter on 13 November 2023.

“To the Queer Eye Community who have become family to me. The love that I have received from you all over the last six years has been absolutely surreal,” he wrote.

“… It’s with a heavy heart that I announce that season 8 will be my final season on Queer Eye. It’s not been an easy decision to be at peace with, but a necessary one. Although my journey with Queer Eye is over, my journey with you is not. You will be seeing more of me very soon.”

He added: “To all our wonderful, loving, amazing, and brave heroes there is so much I want to say, and so much gratitude I want to express to you all for letting me into your homes and hearts.

“It’s all because of you that I’ve kept going all these years and each and every one of you have changed me for the better. I’m so very proud of all of you! Being able to help guide you to find the best version of yourselves is something I never took for granted and never will.”