Tan France claims Bobby Berk was ‘fired’ from Queer Eye, denies he tried to ‘get rid of him’

Tan France has strongly denied a campaign to get Bobby Berk “fired” from the set of Queer Eye in order to “get rid of him.” A report by Rolling Stone earlier last week claimed that Bobby Berk had “butted heads” with Tan France and Jonathan Van Ness on the Queer Eye set.

Other sources claim Tan France and Antoni Porowski campaigned to have Bobby Berk “fired” and replaced with newcomer Jerimiah Brentm, in what one source called “mean girl antics.”

 

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Tan France has since taken to Instagram to address the claims about Bobby Berk getting “fired” from the set of Queer Eye. He said: “Yes I’ve heard what’s going on.

“I just want to address one point real quick. My former colleague getting fired had nothing to do with me trying to get my friend hired. Netflix and the production companies did a full-on casting. I didn’t put my friend up for the job. They ended up getting it because they were the best person for the job.

“Am I so happy that they have the job? Uh-huh. I really am. I think they’re going to be incredible on the show, but I didn’t get them hired by getting rid of somebody else.

“And this all started because of a comment on a gossip blog that just got reposted, reposted, and then it’s almost become gospel. So from the horse’s mouth: I’m telling you, that that’s not at all how it went down. And that’s all I’ll say on the matter. If you need to dig deeper, if you still don’t believe me, so be it – but that’s it.”

Both Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski liked his post on Instagram. In a seemingly shady response to Tan, Bobby shared a meme on Twitter of Michelle Obama saying: “When they go low, we go high.” The tweet has since been deleted.

The latest series of Queer Eye is available on Netflix now – For all the latest Netflix news on Bobby Berk getting fired, drops, quizzes and memes like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook. 

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