Karamo Brown unfollows Queer Eye cast except Bobby Berk and Jeremiah Brent amid drama

The launch of the final season of Queer Eye has been overshadowed by more drama from the cast with Karamo Brown having unfollowed everyone. That is, almost everyone.

The tenth and final season of the hit Netflix show debuted on the streaming service on Wednesday (21 January). It sees Brown, along with Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, and Jeremiah Brent take to Washington, DC to makeover a new crop of ‘heroes’ and bring their warmth and positivity to the US capital.

However, things seem chilly off screen. In addition to skipping interviews with the rest of the cast on Tuesday (20 January) Brown, Queer Eye‘s culture expert, has now unfollowed most of his cast mates on Instagram.

At the time of writing, Brown has unfollowed Porowski, the food and drink expert, France, the style expert, and Jonathan Van Ness, the hair and grooming expert. However, he’s still following Brent, the interior design expert, as well as Bobby Berk, Brent’s predecessor.

Van Ness, Porowski, and France are all still following everyone except Brown and Berk. Meanwhile, Brent is following everyone except Berk.

Having commented on Brown’s absence while appearing on CBS Mornings on Tuesday no one, with the exception of Porowski, in the cast has addressed things further.

On Wednesday, Porowski alluded to the drama by posting an image to his Instagram stories of the Fab Five (not including Berk) with the caption: “when life hands u lemons, u make some thyme and rosemary infused lemonade.”

On Tuesday, Brown cited being “mentally and emotionally abused for years” as a reason for missing interviews. CBS Mornings host Gayle King reported her team had been informed “less than an hour” before the interview commenced that Brown would not be taking part.

A statement from Brown read: “I hope everyone remembers the main theme I have tried to teach them over the past decade, which is to focus on and to protect their mental health/peace from people or a world who seek to destroy it, which is why I can’t be there today.”

Separately on Today host Sheinelle Jones read aloud comments from Brown’s assistant’s that said: “Karamo has felt mentally and emotionally abused for years and he has been advised by his therapist to protect himself and his peace by not attending.”

Porowski described Brown’s absence on Tuesday as a surprise, adding: “Families are complicated and we’re definitely not excluded from that.” And Van Ness praised Brown for his work on the show and said: “We do need to centre what’s best for us sometimes. My hat off to him for doing that today.”

The drama follows that caused by the departure of Berk in 2023 after the show’s eighth season which drew attention to cracks in the original Fab Five roster.

A 2024 Rolling Stone investigation highlighted further issues based on multiple reports from people involved with the show’s production.

Queer Eye is streaming on Netflix.

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