Bobby Berk Explains Why He Really Left Netflix's 'Queer Eye'

By Dustin Rowles | TV | January 25, 2024 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | January 25, 2024 |

Back in November, it was announced that Bobby Berk would be leaving Netflix’s Queer Eye. The announcement, naturally, was followed by a number of messy rumors, but in an interview with Vanity Fair, Berk aims to quiet those rumors.

Yes, there is some friction between Bobby Berk and Tan France, but it was personal and had nothing to do with the reason for Berk leaving the show.

“I want people to know that Tan and I—we will be fine,” Berk told VF. “Tan and I had a moment. There was a situation, and that’s between Tan and I, and it has nothing to do with the show. It was something personal that had been brewing—and nothing romantic, just to clarify that.” Instagram’s settings, by the way, are behind the lack of tags—as with many public figures, only mutual followers can tag France in images.

“Should I have unfollowed Tan? No,” Berk continues. “Maybe I should have just muted him. But that day, I was angry, and that’s the end of it. We became like siblings—and siblings are always going to fight.”

The reason that Berk left the series, according to Berk, is not particularly dramatic. Their contracts ran out after seven cycles. Berk thought that the series was done and began making plans for the future. He did not think that the series would continue without the full cast. However, Netflix decided to bring the series back, and while Berk didn’t think the rest of the cast would continue without him, he was wrong.

“There were definitely emotions. But each one of us had our reasons why we did what we did,” Berk says. “I can’t be mad—for a second I was.” But he didn’t reconsider his own decision, largely because he’d already started preparing for his next chapter: “All the plans that I had made when I thought we weren’t coming back, I just wasn’t willing to change those. I would have had to pump the brakes on multiple other projects that are already in process. We had mentally just prepared ourselves to move on—that’s why I left.”

For the record, while everyone else on the planet believes that Berk contributed far more to that series than anyone else, Berk insists that they were all equals. “You will have never found me quoted as saying that I have the most important job and I do the most work. All five of us are of equal importance.”

Source: VF