After an explosive Rolling Stone The report came after the cast of Strange eye In March, Jonathan Van Ness will open its doors.
Van Ness, who has served as Netflix The stylist on the reality show reboot since its debut in 2018, who uses they/him/her pronouns, appeared on Wednesday’s installment of Jessie and Lennie Ware. Table Manners podcast, where they noted that the article was written in March, “but all of ourStrange eyeThe family first learned about this article in December,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I went from this bankruptcy to saying, ‘Oh, there’s someone who’s going to write an investigative, exposé piece about you that’s not really based in reality, but it certainly may have a lot of things taken out of context to make you look as bad as possible. So, that could go down at any time. Just so you know,’” they recalled. “So, from January to March, I was walking on eggshells and thinking, ‘When is this going to happen?’ And it finally did.”
As he pointed out The thrVan Ness’ hair care company, JVN, was Sold by its parent company in December.
Among the descriptions included in the March 2024 article about Van Ness were that he is a “monster,” “degrading” and emotionally “abusive,” as well as claims that he has “anger issues.” A production source had called him “a screamer.”
As for how Van Ness felt, they explained, “I think a lot of people were looking for a reason to hate me or a reason to say, ‘Look, I always knew they were fake cunts and this is the proof.'”
They thanked their family, husband and team for being “so understanding,” but Van Ness admitted that they “didn’t even go on social media or look at my phone for about three weeks,” noting that “every time I tried to dip my toe into it, I immediately saw something that was so intensely painful.”
“I think people forget that no matter how famous you are, you’re still a person,” they shared, finally highlighting how the article came “at an incredibly vulnerable time” for their hair care company and for “their entire career.”
“While I think that article was overwhelmingly false and done in bad faith, there have obviously been times … throughout my career where I felt stressed, or I may have been immersed in highlights and thought, ‘I can’t talk about that right now,’” he admitted. “I know there were times where I could have been better.”
Van Ness noted that they began production on Season 9 shortly after, which they described as “very intense.”
While Van Ness, Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, and Tan France will return for the next installment of the show, Bobby Berk revealed in November 2023 that season 8 of strange eye —which premiered in January— would be his last.
The Fab Five will be rounded out by HGTV’s Jeremiah Brent, who was announced as Berk’s replacement in February. France, who was accused – along with “alleged support from Porowski” – of having “campaigned” for Brent to replace Berk, took the lead instagram in March to counter the accusation. Meanwhile, Porowski also hosts a new Nat Geo show titled There is no taste of home with Antoni Porowski.
strange eye Seasons 1-8 are currently streaming on Netflix.
