'Queer Eye' alum Bobby Berk seemingly confirms Tan France feud
Bobby Berk, Tan France.
Getty Images(2)Strange eye alum Bobby Berk finally speaks out after fans speculated there was a feud between him and Brown France.
“Tan and I had a moment,” Berk, 42, explained Vanity fair in an interview published on Thursday, January 25. “There was a situation – and that's between Tan and me – and it has nothing to do with the show. It was something personal that was brewing and nothing romantic, just to clarify that.
Berk sparked feud rumors after fans noticed he unfollowed France, 40, on Instagram shortly after he announced he would be leaving the Netflix show in November 2023. Vanity fair During the interview, Berk admitted that he regretted unfollowing Tan.
'Should I have unfollowed Tan? No,” Berk told the outlet. “Maybe I should have just muted it. But that day I was angry, and that was the end of it. We have become like brothers and sisters – and siblings will always fight.
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Two months later, the duo appeared, playing the leading role Strange eye along together Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski And Jonathan Van Ness since 2018 – reunited at the Emmy Awards and started making amends.
“I will always have a very special place in my heart for him and [Tan’s husband] To rob [France] and the kids,” Berk explained. “I can predict that in six months or a year, Tan and I will be at each other's houses. The Emmys were already the first bandage on that wound.”
In November 2023, Berk announced his departure Strange eye after six years.
“It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Season 8 will be my final season Strange eye,” he wrote in a lengthy Instagram post at the time. “It was not an easy decision to come to terms with, but it was a necessary one. Although my journey with Strange eye is over, my journey with you is not. You'll be seeing more from me soon. I love you all so much and I'll see you all in Nola for one final season. @foreverthefab5.”
A few days after his announcement, a source said We weekly that the reason for Berk's departure was “because he didn't join the cast.”
“There were a lot of challenges with the planning [and] there was a loss of interest with Bobby filming the show,” the insider shared Us. “The network and the cast felt it was time to bring in fresh blood. His heart wasn't in it and the rest of the cast started to hate him because of it.
A second source said Berk “was not asked to leave” and that the “decision was amicable.”
Berk addressed his decision to leave the show in the Vanity fair interview, noting that he and the rest of the original cast were ready to part ways when their seven-cycle contracts expired in September 2022. However, after the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, Netflix decided to offer them a new four-season contract. additional cycles, which Berk thought he and his fellow players would not sign.
“We just assumed that if we didn't all come back, the show wouldn't come back. I thought, I'm not going to get FOMO because the show isn't going to happen. I was at peace with it,” Berk explained before sharing that the other members decided to renew their contracts and that Netflix ultimately decided they could “recast one person,” which ended up being Berk.
Although Berk was initially “angry” about the decision, he eventually went along with it because he had already made other plans that he was “unwilling” to change.
“We had mentally prepared ourselves to move on – that's why I left,” he said.