{"id":710635,"date":"2026-06-02T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710635\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:30:10","slug":"karamo-brown-says-queer-eye-made-him-feel-like-an-outsider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710635\/","title":{"rendered":"Karamo Brown Says Queer Eye Made Him \u2018Feel Like an Outsider\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Queer Eye has been a hotbed of inter-cast tumult for years \u2014 Bobby Berk quit the show after season eight, acknowledging that there had been tension between himself and Tan France<\/a>; Jonathan Van Ness has been accused<\/a> of being verbally abusive on set. But things really hit a fever pitch earlier this year when Karamo Brown abruptly dropped out <\/a>of promotional events for Queer Eye\u2019s final season, for fear of what his assistant described as \u201cbeing bullied.\u201d This week, Brown explained his side of the on-set drama at length in a new People<\/a> interview, and from the sound of it, the Queer Eye crew has pretty much never gotten along.<\/p>\n

Brown told People<\/a> that tensions between the Fab Five began in the first few weeks of filming in 2017, when an anonymous sexual-harassment complaint was filed against him. According to Brown, he and another castmate, whom he did not name, had a \u201cfun and flirty\u201d relationship while the show was in casting, and Brown accused this castmate of filing the complaint before later learning it had been filed by an anonymous third party. Brown said he was cleared of wrongdoing, but it seems the guys never really moved past the complaint. \u201cIt broke us,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

It sounds like the vibes on the Queer Eye set from then on were absolutely dismal \u2014 even as its first few seasons were hailed as the last word in feel-good television. An unnamed insider described the environment to People as \u201ctoxic as hell,\u201d backing up Brown\u2019s claim that a higher-up threatened to fire him. Brown said that, in season three, he relapsed after being sober for 12 years (he has now been sober for more than a year and regularly attends meetings). Confirming tabloid reports from when he dropped out of the promotional events, Brown said the last straw that led him to part ways with the rest of the cast was when his mom overheard his co-stars trash-talking him while she was visiting the show\u2019s set in 2025. Brown said he picked up all he needed to know about the conversation from \u201cthe tears I saw in my mother\u2019s eyes.\u201d He added, \u201cIt made me realize I can no longer stay silent about how often I was made to feel like an outsider.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite all this, Brown says he\u2019s ready to move on. Acknowledging his own contribution to the on-set toxicity \u2014 \u201cthere were times I was hurt and would lash back out\u201d \u2014 he argued\u00a0that he and all of his co-stars deserve a little grace. \u201cWe were just doing our best,\u201d he said. \u201cIt may not have felt like that in the moment, but it\u2019s very clear to me now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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