{"id":43289,"date":"2026-01-20T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=43289"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:19:49","slug":"karamo-brown-shockingly-pulls-out-of-queer-eye-cast-interview-over-fears-of-being-bullied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/20\/karamo-brown-shockingly-pulls-out-of-queer-eye-cast-interview-over-fears-of-being-bullied\/","title":{"rendered":"Karamo Brown pulls out of Queer Eye interview over fears of ‘being bullied’ by his co-stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems the tensions between the Queer Eye cast<\/a> might be about to hit breaking point after Karamo Brown shockingly pulled out of a live Queer Eye cast interview with his co-stars.<\/p>\n

The news of his absence was revealed by Gayle King, who shared that Karamo Brown had decided to withdraw from the interview over fears of “being bullied.”<\/p>\n

Gayle explained: “I hope everyone remembers the main theme I have tried to teach them over the past decade. Which is to focus on and to protect their mental health\/peace from people or a world who seek to destroy it; which is why I can’t be there today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She added that Karamo’s assistant had explained that “he\u2019s worried about being bullied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karamo later sent a personal video message into the show, revealing he “has felt mentally and emotionally abused for years,\u201d and was advised by his therapist \u201cto protect himself and his peace by not attending.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it seems his Queer Eye co-stars hadn’t been informed about his decision to not attend the interview, at Antoni admitted he was incredibly “susprised” that Karamo Brown had pulled out.<\/p>\n

Antoni confessed: “Surprised is a fair understatement. I will say our Queer Eye family, we\u2019ve been doing this for almost a decade, which is pretty wild to believe, and families are complicated. And we\u2019re definitely not excluded from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: “But I think two things can exist at the same time. And while that is definitely true, we\u2019re also here to showcase the incredible heroes that we have and honor the legacy of this past decade of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jonathan Van Ness added: “I would say one thing that I\u2019ve been so honored to learn about Karamo in that time is that we have to meet people we\u2019re they\u2019re at. And he has taught people to center what they need.<\/p>\n

“And I\u2019m actually really proud of him. Center what you need, do the things that you need to do to take care of you. I\u2019d be lying if I said I didn\u2019t feel like that sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: “It\u2019s really beautiful. We do need to center what\u2019s best for us sometimes. And I take my hat off to him for doing that today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reality Shrine has reached out to Netflix for comment.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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He claims he’s been ‘mentally and emotionally abused for years’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":43291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1438,1549],"class_list":["post-43289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-netflix","tag-queer-eye"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/20\/karamo-brown-shockingly-pulls-out-of-queer-eye-cast-interview-over-fears-of-being-bullied\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Karamo Brown pulls out of Queer Eye interview over fears of ‘being bullied’ by his co-stars","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/20\/karamo-brown-shockingly-pulls-out-of-queer-eye-cast-interview-over-fears-of-being-bullied\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/20\/karamo-brown-shockingly-pulls-out-of-queer-eye-cast-interview-over-fears-of-being-bullied\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-20T154743.550-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-20T154743.550.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["netflix","queer eye"],"dateCreated":"2026-01-20T15:54:33Z","datePublished":"2026-01-20T15:54:33Z","dateModified":"2026-01-20T17:19:49Z"},"rendered":"