Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski turns up the heat in new underwear campaign
Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski for SAXX Underwear. (SAXX)
Queer Eye‘s Antoni Porowski is turning up the heat this January with a new campaign that sees him showing off his underwear.
The food and drink expert on the long-running reality TV show has helped underwear brand SAXX launch its latest campaign featuring an array of boxer briefs and briefs.
In a promo video the Queer Eye cast member discusses his daily and weekly routines whilst making a cup of coffee and making himself a healthy looking snack in nothing but his boxers. The Spoiler Alert star explains he wears different underwear “based on how I feel”.
“Sometimes it’s eating something too,” Porowski says. Reflecting on his busy schedule he says: “Anything that is home cooked for me, it can genuinely be burnt toast with good quality butter, I’ll genuinely be thrilled.” He then adds: “It sounds woo-woo but when there’s that intention and that love in it you taste it in the food.”
Porowski also touches on life after Queer Eye and going solo. “I’m trying to just be a little more mindful and intentional with the things I take on,” he says.
“I’ll have what he’s cookin’,” wrote one fan in the comments. “Good lord that body and those sultry eyes!” wrote another. Many comments feature exclusively fire emojis signalling that the majority of people found the shoot turned up the heat significantly.
A statement from SAXX reads: “The campaign taps into the shared mission between SAXX and Antoni. Helping men feel like the best version of themselves — cool, confident, and completely comfortable in their own skin.”
As reported by Out, Porowski has also joined SAXX’s Gamechangers programme. It’s an initiative aimed at profiling and highlighting men from a range of jobs making an impact in their respective fields.
The tenth and final season of Queer Eye debuted last week (21 January). The launch was slightly overshadowed, however, by the latest bit of drama in the cast when Karamo Brown, the culture expert, pulled out of interviews the day before the launch.
Brown said he did so protect his “mental health and peace” and cited being “mentally and emotionally abused for years” as the reasons. Reacting to the news last week, Porowski said he was “surprised”. He later alluded to the drama with a post captioned: “When life hands u lemons, u make some thyme and rosemary infused lemonade.”
When a fan commented on a post how the drama made the show seem “fake” the food expert replied: “A lot of us come from complicated families and still have jobs and positive things we’re passionate about. Authenticity is about being honest about the complexities of life and knowing two things can exist at the same time.”
The latest feud follows that highlighted by the departure of Bobby Berk, the previous interior design expert, in 2023 after the show’s eighth season. A 2024 Rolling Stone investigation identified further issues based on multiple reports from people involved with the show’s production.
Porowski, France, and Van Ness allegedly reignited the feud when they critiqued Brown’s “lifestyle choices” on the set of Queer Eye season 10. This was reportedly overhead by Brown’s mother who told her son, as reported yesterday TMZ.
PinkNews has contacted representatives for Karamo Brown, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski for comment.
Queer Eye is streaming on Netflix.
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