Bobby Berk on the drama Tan France and why he left “Queer Eye”

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Interior designer Bobby Berk is making room for contemplation, and we're not talking about statement mirrors. Strange eye Fans have been building theories about the behind-the-scenes beef since news broke last fall that Burke would be leaving the Fab Five (which also includes Tan France, Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, and Antoni Porowski) after the upcoming eighth season of the reality show. Naturally, the speculation didn't stop when Burke unfollowed co-star Tan France on Instagram. “Tan and I had a moment,” Burke confirmed recently interview with Vanity gallery. “There was a situation between me and Tan, and it had nothing to do with the show. It was personal, it wasn't anything romantic, just to make that clear.” Looking back, Burke said he shouldn't have unfollowed France, and perhaps he just needed to mute his account. “But that day, I was angry, and that was the end of it,” Burke said. “We became like siblings, and siblings will always fight.” He noted that he and France hugged and congratulated each other at the Emmy Awards earlier this month, which he described as a “The first bandage on that wound.” Within six months to a year, he could see himself and France “in each other’s house in good order.”

So why not keep doing it Strange eye, then? According to Burke, the Fab Five were mentally prepared to leave after their contract expired in September 2022. But with content declining due to the Hollywood strikes last year, Netflix offered the Fab Five a new deal for four more cycles. Burke refused. He has already started planning multiple other projects. He thought his fellow stars would follow suit, but just before the deadline, he said they had all decided to sign. “And with only one of us not coming back, Netflix felt… [it] “One person can be recast,” Burke explained. Although he admitted he was crazy “for a second,” he cryptically said that “each of us has our reasons for why we did what we did.”