Queer Eye star called Tan France ‘traitor’ for not being out filming season 1
Tan France. (Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage)
Tan France has revealed that tensions were running high even in the early days of Netflix’s hit show Queer Eye, with an argument breaking out over him not being out to his family.
The fashion guru spoke on a recent episode of the Dinner’s On Me podcast about how he and another of the show’s stars had a “heated argument” because he wasn’t out to his family while filming season one.
“I’ve never said this before, and I won’t say who it was, but during filming of that first season, somebody on the cast was quite frustrated with me when they found out that I wasn’t out to my family,” France said.
He went on to say that his co-star told him: “Basically, ‘You’re kind of a traitor to us on the show if you’re not out.’ Like, ‘How can you be on Queer Eye and not be singing it from the rooftops?’”
France went on to say that he told the other cast member that they “had no idea” what his “experience is as a queer Muslim, a queer brown person, a queer immigrant”.
Ultimately, France came out to his family two days before the show’s premiere, saying that the experience was “absolutely shocking” but that his family wasn’t hostile, just inexperienced with the LGBTQ+ community.
He told the podcast that he “was navigating something so different to everybody else at the time, so it felt really heavy. But once my family accepted it and understood it, now, gosh, they’re a huge part of my life. They love my husband, they love my kids. We are so close again.”
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