By Bonnie McLarenEntertainment reporter8 March 2024Image supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, Netflix rebooted Queer Eye in 2018 (L-R: Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness)Tan France has denied he was concerned in his co-star Bobby Berk being “fired” from Netflix sequence Queer Eye.Berk introduced he was leaving the makeover present final 12 months, saying it had “not been a straightforward determination”. France, the present’s stylist, stated his efforts to get Brent employed weren’t linked to Berk’s exit from the present.In an Instagram reel, France stated: “My former colleague getting fired had nothing to do with me attempting to get my good friend employed.”Netflix and the manufacturing corporations did a full-on casting.”I did not put my good friend up for the job, they ended up getting it as a result of they had been the most effective individual for the job.”The Rolling Stone report additionally alleged that hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness was a “nightmare” to work with on set, who made filming “troublesome” resulting from his behaviour. Van Ness, Netflix, the opposite Queer Eye solid members and ITV Leisure, which produces the present, didn’t reply to the BBC’s request for remark earlier this week.Berk and Netflix have been approached for additional remark following France’s feedback on Friday.Aside from France, not one of the events concerned have stated publicly that Berk was fired from the present.Picture supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, France (left) stated his efforts to get his good friend employed had “nothing to do” with Berk (proper) leaving the showFrance didn’t tackle the alleged tensions on set in his Instagram submit.He continued by saying he was completely satisfied that Brent – who has offered reveals on residence channel HGTV together with his husband, fellow designer Nate Berkus – had joined the present.”I believe they’ll be unbelievable on the present however I did not get them employed by eliminating someone else,” France added. France went on to say the hearsay about his personal involvement within the state of affairs originated from a touch upon a gossip weblog, that “has nearly turn out to be gospel”. In January, Berk instructed Vainness Truthful that he and France “could be positive” after it was extensively speculated the pair had fallen out.He acknowledged some pressure between him and France, commenting: “There was a state of affairs, and that is between Tan and I, and it has nothing to do with the present. It was one thing private that had been brewing – and nothing romantic, simply to make clear that.”In the identical interview, he stated he had been supplied a contract by Netflix to return to the sequence after the streamer unexpectedly determined to resume it for an additional season.He stated he and his co-stars, referred to as the fab 5, weren’t planning to return – however he claimed the opposite 4 later modified their minds.By that time, he stated, he had made different plans on the idea there wouldn’t be a brand new sequence, and stated he “simply wasn’t keen to vary these [plans]”.