Jonathan Van Ness has finally responded to claims they were a ‘nightmare’ on Queer Eye set

Netflix’s Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness has spoken out for the first time about the claims they were a “nightmare” to work with and said it is “untrue.”

Back in March, four sources from Queer Eye productions and three former colleagues who worked there spoke anonymously to Rolling Stone and described Jonathan, who uses they/them pronouns, behind the scenes as a “nightmare” and that they ”at least once a day would need to yell at somebody.”

On Wednesday’s episode of Table Manner’s podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware, Jonathan broke their silence on the allegations for the first time. They acknowledged some of the specific claims such as yelling at people and said: “I could have done better.”

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Apparently Jonathan and their cast mates knew about the Rolling Stone article in December, before it was released in March, and they said on the podcast: “Information was taken out of context” to make them look “as bad as possible.”

On knowing the article would eventually be released they said: “I was walking on eggshells being like, ‘When is this going to happen?’ And then it finally did happen.”

The 37-year-old star then spoke out on the backlash they received: “I think a lot of people were looking for a reason to hate me or looking for a reason to be like, ‘See, I always knew that they were a fake c*nt, and this is the proof’.

”My family was so supportive of my husband and my team, but I didn’t even get on social media or, like, look at my phone for three weeks.”

Other Queer Eye stars also faced allegations, as the Rolling Stone article claimed there had been “petty disputes and competition” in the group.

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Back in March, Queer Eye cast member Tan France responded to the claims in the article about trying to get Bobby Berk fired, posting an Instagram apology.

He said in the video: “My former colleague getting fired had nothing to do with me trying to get my friend hired. I didn’t put my friend up for the job. They ended up getting it because they were the best person for the job.”

Jonathan Van Ness’ management have not responded further to the situation.

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