‘Queer Eye’ alum Bobby Berk cheekily hinted that he is distancing himself from his former co-star Karamo Brown’s feud with his castmates.
“How’s your week everyone?!” the reality star asked her Instagram followers on Wednesday, alongside a photo of herself smiling and hanging from a fence.
“Have you seen my new show ‘Junk or Jackpot’?!” on @hgtv, @hbomax, @discoveryplus?”
Several fans praised Burke for taking it easy on the drama and focusing on his new endeavors, with one fan writing, “Just here on a new show and not worrying about myself? 🤪.”
“The timing is perfect 🤌🏼,” added another.
Burke starred on Queer Eye for eight seasons from 2018 to 2023, alongside Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski and Brown.
Explaining his departure from the show, he told Vanity Fair in January 2024 that he believed his contract had ended and filming had completely finished.
“I thought we were done. Mentally and emotionally, we all thought we were going to move on. I knew I did and I started planning other things,” Burke added, explaining that Netflix has since made another deal.
Meanwhile, Burke subtly responded to the recent drama involving his former castmates after Brown abruptly stopped doing interviews for fear of being “bullied.”
Brown was scheduled to appear on Tuesday’s “CBS Morning” segment with Van Ness, France, Porowski and Jeremiah Brent.
However, host Gayle King received a letter explaining Brown’s absence, which read, “I want you all to remember the key themes that I have been trying to teach over the past 10 years.”
“The focus is on their mental health and peace, and protecting it from those and the world that would seek to destroy it. That is why I cannot be there today,” the letter continued.
Brown also said she was “worried about being bullied.”
In response, Porowski said he was “surprised” by Brown’s comments and told King: “Our Queer Eye family, we’ve been doing this for almost 10 years. It’s an incredible story and families are complicated.”
“And we are in no way excluded from that,” he continued. “I think it’s possible for two things to exist at the same time, and that’s definitely true, but we’re also here to showcase some of the great heroes that we have and to honor the legacy of this past decade of our lives.”
As for Van Ness, he explained how important it is to “meet people where they are” and expressed his admiration for Brown.
Brown’s feud with his co-star erupted after his mother, Charmaine Brown, overheard the co-star talking badly about her son during a heated microphone moment on set.
While the cast was filming season 10 in Washington, D.C. last summer, Charmaine was said to be on set observing the production through headphones.
She allegedly heard her co-stars talking behind her back as Karamo walked away from them.
As of Tuesday, Karamo only follows Brent on Instagram.
