Karamo Brown Says Queer Eye Made Him ‘Feel Like an Outsider’

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Kathleen Walsh,

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Queer Eye has been a hotbed of inter-cast tumult for years — Bobby Berk quit the show after season eight, acknowledging that there had been tension between himself and Tan France; Jonathan Van Ness has been accused of being verbally abusive on set. But things really hit a fever pitch earlier this year when Karamo Brown abruptly dropped out of promotional events for Queer Eye’s final season, for fear of what his assistant described as “being bullied.” This week, Brown explained his side of the on-set drama at length in a new People interview, and from the sound of it, the Queer Eye crew has pretty much never gotten along.