23 Tim Jonathan From "Queer Eye" Was The World's One Te Gay Hero

23 TIM JONATHAN FROM "QUEER EYE" WAS THE WORLD'S ONE TE GAY HERO
QUEER EYE’S JONATHAN VAN NS IS WAG FOR THE SALON WORLD’S #METOO MOMENTTHE BREAKOUT GROOMG EXPERT ON QUEER EYE SEASON 2, HIS DEVIL WEARS PRADA-QUE PAST, AND HOW THAT INSTAGRAM WH EMMA STONE AND JT THEROUX ME TO BE.BY YOHANA DTAAPRIL 17, 2018COURTY OF NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVESHORTLY AFTER NETFLIX PREMIERED QUEER EYE, S REBOOT OF EARLY GHTS MAKEOVER SERI QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY, WAS STANTLY APPARENT THAT JONATHAN VAN NS—ONE OF FIVE GAY MEN TASKED WH MAKG OVER THE SHOW’S SUBJECTS—WAS A STAR. WH HIS J-LIKE TRS AND ALMOST CRIMALLY JOLLY NATURE, THE SHOW’S RINT GROOMG EXPERT QUICKLY BEME A FAN FAVORE. HE N FD THE BETY ANYBODY; HIS EVERY UTTERANCE SEEMS MA FOR MEME-G (“CAN YOU BELIEVE?”). AND AS A BON, HE ACTUALLY KNOWS HIS STUFF. WHILE HIS STMATE ANTONI POROWSKI, THE SHOW’S FOOD GU, HAS BEEN PLAYFULLY CRICIZED FOR HIS SIMPLISTIC RECIP, VAN NS REALLY DO GIVE GREAT GROOMG ADVICE.WHILE NEWFOUND STARDOM HAS UPEND VAN NS’S REGULAR LIFE, ALSO WH PERKS—LIKE GETTG INSTAGRAM D.M.S ON EASTER SUNDAY OM JT THEROUX.“I WAS WH ANTONI ’E WE WERE DOG A LTLE PHOTO SHOOT FOR MY PODST, AND THE HOLY SPIR, OR MOTHER NATURE—WHATEVER YOU WANNA LL HER—WAS LIKE, ‘GIRL, CHECK YOUR D.M.S!’” VAN NS SAID A TYPILLY LORFUL PHONE TERVIEW. “WHO WAS AT THE VERY TOP OF MY D.M.S? GEO JT THEROUX. AND HE WAS LIKE, ‘LOVE YOUR SHOW, LOVE YOU, YOU’RE SUPER-FUN.’”THE QUEER EYE PAIR HEAD OVER TO MEET THEROUX, WHO WAS HAVG A “CUTE LTLE BNCH MOMENT” WH SOME NEW YORK-BASED IENDS, VAN NS NTUED. IN THE THEROUX MIX WAS OSR WNER EMMA STONE—A BIG FAN OF QUEER EYE, ACRDG TO VAN NS. IT SPEAKS TO BOTH THE SUCCS OF THE SHOW AND S SHEER REACH THAT VAN NS IS URTG UNSOLICED D.M.S OM THE KDS OF CELEBRI TABLOIDS FIXATE ON. IN OTHER WORDS: THE TWO SHORT MONTHS SCE S LNCH, THE EXPLOSIVE SUCCS OF QUEER EYE HAS POSED VAN NS AND HIS STMAT TO A NEW CULTURAL STRATUM.“I HAVE LIKE A VULNERABILY HANER,” THE EXPERT GROOMER SAID. “I DIDN’T WANT TO BE A STAR-STCK WEIRDO, ’E I ALWAYS APPRECIATE WHEN PEOPLE TREAT ME NORMAL. BUT THEN I WAS TOO NORMAL AND DID WHAT I ALWAYS DO, WHICH IS TALKED A LOT.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.AS FANS OF THE SHOW WELL KNOW, VAN NS’S CHATTS IS PART OF HIS CHARM. BUT WHEN TO SHARG TAILS OF THE UPG SEND SEASON, HE’S TIGHT-LIPPED. “MY MIDDLE NAME IS ‘NO SPOILERS!’” HE SAID, THOUGH HE PROMIS THAT THE NEXT EIGHT EPISOS OF QUEER EYE WILL BRG SOMETHG DIFFERENT OM THE FIRST BATCH. SEASON 1 MOSTLY REVOLVED AROUND THE FAB FIVE GIVG MAKEOVERS TO STRAIGHT MEN, JT LIKE THE ORIGAL QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY. BUT SCE THE NETFLIX SERI LOPPED OFF THE “FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY” LABEL, MANY ARE HOPG WILL BRANCH OUT AND FD A MORE CLIVE CLIENTELE.ANOTHER THG VAN NS ULDN’T SAY MUCH ABOUT? TOM JACKSON’S UPG WEDDG TO ABBY, HIS FORMER WIFE AND LONGTIME SWEETHEART. THE SOUTHERN GRANDPA WAS THE FIRST CLIENT ON QUEER EYE, WHO STOLE VIEWERS’ HEARTS WH HIS ROMANTIC LONGG FOR HIS EX. AFTER THE SHOW WRAPPED, JACKSON KEPT FANS ENTHRALLED BY SHARG UPDAT ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP ON TWTER, ANNOUNCG MID-MARCH THAT NOT ONLY HAD HE AND ABBY RNED, BUT THEY WERE GETTG MARRIED. VAN NS, UNFORTUNATELY, MIGHT HAVE A PRR MMENT: “I THK MY DAD AND HIM ARE GETTG MARRIED ON THE SAME DAY, SO I THK I’M GONNA BE AT MY DAD’S WEDDG,” HE SAID. “HEY, IS HIS THIRD? Y, BUT THEY’RE ALL IMPORTANT. BUT I WOULD LOVE TO BE AT TOM AND ABBY’S WEDDG. HE’S SUCH A CUTE MAN, AND I REALLY WISH THEM ALL THE CUTT AND BTT.”THOUGH ’S A JOY TO WATCH THE NEW FAB FIVE BOND WH THEIR CLIENTS, QUEER EYE’S GREATT STRENGTH MAY BE THE QUTET’S OWN CLOSENS. WHILE FILMG THE SHOW GEIA, THE GROUP SPENT PLENTY OF DOWNTIME TOGETHER—LOTS OF “DRAG RACE AND CHILL,” VAN NS SAID. AND Y: POROWSKI, THE STMATE WH WHOM VAN NS IS CLOST, ALSO OKED FOR THE GROUP, AND WAS, HE SAID, “REALLY GLOR.” WHILE THE GUYS SOMETIM POKE FUN AT EACH OTHER ABOUT THE MEM THE SHOW HAS BIRTHED—KARAMO BROWN’S OBSSN WH BOMBER JACKETS, NSPIRACY THEORI ABOUT POROWSKI’S CULARY SKILLS—THE GROUP IS ALSO ACCLIMATG TO TV STARDOM.VAN NS DID HAVE SOME EXPOSURE TO THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY PRR TO THE SHOW’S RELEASE. EARLY HIS REER AS A HAIR-SALON ASSISTANT, HE WAS REGULARLY EXPOSED TO CELEBRY CLIENTELE—WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN GLAMORO, IF THE SALON HAD NOT BEEN “SUPER-DUPER ABIVE” TO S EMPLOYE, HE SAID.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANO“I’M JT WAG FOR THE FIRST #METOO MOMENT TO HAPPEN OM A SALON, BEE THE CULTURE OF HOW ASSISTANTS ARE TREATED, PECIALLY SALONS L.A. AND NEW YORK, IS, LIKE, TLY UNBELIEVABLE,” HE SAID. “YOU’RE EXPECTED TO CLOCK OUT FOR LUNCH AND NEVER GET PAID. YOU’RE EXPECTED TO BE THERE AN HOUR EARLY, STAY TWO HOURS LATE. LIKE, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY NO. AND FOR SOMEONE WHO ME OM A REALLY SMALL TOWN AND WAS REALLY, REALLY BULLIED, THAT N BE REALLY DIFFICULT, PECIALLY FOR AN ARTIST TO HEAR. I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE ANNE HATHAWAY THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. IT WAS FELY LIKE A YEAR AND A HALF WHERE, LIKE, THERE WASN’T ONE DAY WHERE I DIDN’T HAVE TO EXCE MYSELF TO THE BACK ALLEY AND CRY.”VAN NS THEN SCRIBED A PARTICULARLY BAD DAY 2010: “THIS ONE TIME, THIS MAN WHO WORKS AT THAT SALON—HE NO LONGER WORKS THERE; HE WORKS AT A DIFFERENT SALON NOW—HE ASKED ME TO BLOW-DRY THE BACK OF A CLIENT’S HAIR STRAIGHT SO HE ULD CUT . I ED A BOAR BRISTLE ROUND BSH STEAD OF A METAL ROUND BSH. SO HE LERALLY THREW THE ROUND BSH AT ME, AND SAID HE—AND I’M QUOTG HERE—‘HOP I DIE OF AIDS,’ ONT OF LIKE FIVE PEOPLE THAT WORK AT THE SALON. NOTHG WAS EVER SAID. NOTHG WAS EVER DONE. THAT’S PAR FOR THE URSE.”THE GROOMG EXPERT, WHO HAS OWNED HIS OWN STUD FOR FOUR YEARS NOW, SAID THAT HE STRIV TO SHRED ANY TRACE OF DEVIL WEARS PRADA ENERGY OM HIS BS. “IN SERVICE DTRI, WE N BE SO PEOPLE-PLEASER-Y THAT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO SET YOUR OWN BOUNDARI. AS I GET OLR, THE MORE I’M LIKE, ‘NO—YOU HAVE TO SET A BOUNDARY,’” HE SAID.HE STILL HAS YET TO FD THE RIGHT BOUNDARY WH FANS WHO E UP TO HIM ON THE STREET TO ASK FOR PHOTOS OR GROOMG ADVICE, OCSNALLY LEANG ON THOSE PEOPLE-PLEASER-Y TENNCI. “A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD ASK ME, ‘ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR LIFE TO CHANGE?’” HE RELLED. “I DON’T THK I WAS ALL THE WAY READY FOR .” BUT HE’S FIGURG OUT, ONE FAN SELFIE AT A TIME. BY THE TIME SEASON 2 ROLLS AROUND, HE MIGHT BE AN EXPERT.PHOTOS: MARK SELIGER LOOKS BACK1 / 5CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY MARK SELIGER.FROM MARK SELIGER PHOTOGRAPHS, PUBLISHED ON MAY 1, 2018 BY ABRAMS.YOHANA DTA

23 TIM JONATHAN FROM "QUEER EYE" WAS THE WORLD'S ONE TE GAY HERO

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QUEER EYE’S JONATHAN VAN NS IS WAG FOR THE SALON WORLD’S #METOO MOMENTTHE BREAKOUT GROOMG EXPERT ON QUEER EYE SEASON 2, HIS DEVIL WEARS PRADA-QUE PAST, AND HOW THAT INSTAGRAM WH EMMA STONE AND JT THEROUX ME TO BE.BY YOHANA DTAAPRIL 17, 2018COURTY OF NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVESHORTLY AFTER NETFLIX PREMIERED QUEER EYE, S REBOOT OF EARLY GHTS MAKEOVER SERI QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY, WAS STANTLY APPARENT THAT JONATHAN VAN NS—ONE OF FIVE GAY MEN TASKED WH MAKG OVER THE SHOW’S SUBJECTS—WAS A STAR. WH HIS J-LIKE TRS AND ALMOST CRIMALLY JOLLY NATURE, THE SHOW’S RINT GROOMG EXPERT QUICKLY BEME A FAN FAVORE. HE N FD THE BETY ANYBODY; HIS EVERY UTTERANCE SEEMS MA FOR MEME-G (“CAN YOU BELIEVE?”). AND AS A BON, HE ACTUALLY KNOWS HIS STUFF. WHILE HIS STMATE ANTONI POROWSKI, THE SHOW’S FOOD GU, HAS BEEN PLAYFULLY CRICIZED FOR HIS SIMPLISTIC RECIP, VAN NS REALLY DO GIVE GREAT GROOMG ADVICE.WHILE NEWFOUND STARDOM HAS UPEND VAN NS’S REGULAR LIFE, ALSO WH PERKS—LIKE GETTG INSTAGRAM D.M.S ON EASTER SUNDAY OM JT THEROUX.“I WAS WH ANTONI ’E WE WERE DOG A LTLE PHOTO SHOOT FOR MY PODST, AND THE HOLY SPIR, OR MOTHER NATURE—WHATEVER YOU WANNA LL HER—WAS LIKE, ‘GIRL, CHECK YOUR D.M.S!’” VAN NS SAID A TYPILLY LORFUL PHONE TERVIEW. “WHO WAS AT THE VERY TOP OF MY D.M.S? GEO JT THEROUX. AND HE WAS LIKE, ‘LOVE YOUR SHOW, LOVE YOU, YOU’RE SUPER-FUN.’”THE QUEER EYE PAIR HEAD OVER TO MEET THEROUX, WHO WAS HAVG A “CUTE LTLE BNCH MOMENT” WH SOME NEW YORK-BASED IENDS, VAN NS NTUED. IN THE THEROUX MIX WAS OSR WNER EMMA STONE—A BIG FAN OF QUEER EYE, ACRDG TO VAN NS. IT SPEAKS TO BOTH THE SUCCS OF THE SHOW AND S SHEER REACH THAT VAN NS IS URTG UNSOLICED D.M.S OM THE KDS OF CELEBRI TABLOIDS FIXATE ON. IN OTHER WORDS: THE TWO SHORT MONTHS SCE S LNCH, THE EXPLOSIVE SUCCS OF QUEER EYE HAS POSED VAN NS AND HIS STMAT TO A NEW CULTURAL STRATUM.“I HAVE LIKE A VULNERABILY HANER,” THE EXPERT GROOMER SAID. “I DIDN’T WANT TO BE A STAR-STCK WEIRDO, ’E I ALWAYS APPRECIATE WHEN PEOPLE TREAT ME NORMAL. BUT THEN I WAS TOO NORMAL AND DID WHAT I ALWAYS DO, WHICH IS TALKED A LOT.”INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.AS FANS OF THE SHOW WELL KNOW, VAN NS’S CHATTS IS PART OF HIS CHARM. BUT WHEN TO SHARG TAILS OF THE UPG SEND SEASON, HE’S TIGHT-LIPPED. “MY MIDDLE NAME IS ‘NO SPOILERS!’” HE SAID, THOUGH HE PROMIS THAT THE NEXT EIGHT EPISOS OF QUEER EYE WILL BRG SOMETHG DIFFERENT OM THE FIRST BATCH. SEASON 1 MOSTLY REVOLVED AROUND THE FAB FIVE GIVG MAKEOVERS TO STRAIGHT MEN, JT LIKE THE ORIGAL QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY. BUT SCE THE NETFLIX SERI LOPPED OFF THE “FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY” LABEL, MANY ARE HOPG WILL BRANCH OUT AND FD A MORE CLIVE CLIENTELE.ANOTHER THG VAN NS ULDN’T SAY MUCH ABOUT? TOM JACKSON’S UPG WEDDG TO ABBY, HIS FORMER WIFE AND LONGTIME SWEETHEART. THE SOUTHERN GRANDPA WAS THE FIRST CLIENT ON QUEER EYE, WHO STOLE VIEWERS’ HEARTS WH HIS ROMANTIC LONGG FOR HIS EX. AFTER THE SHOW WRAPPED, JACKSON KEPT FANS ENTHRALLED BY SHARG UPDAT ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP ON TWTER, ANNOUNCG MID-MARCH THAT NOT ONLY HAD HE AND ABBY RNED, BUT THEY WERE GETTG MARRIED. VAN NS, UNFORTUNATELY, MIGHT HAVE A PRR MMENT: “I THK MY DAD AND HIM ARE GETTG MARRIED ON THE SAME DAY, SO I THK I’M GONNA BE AT MY DAD’S WEDDG,” HE SAID. “HEY, IS HIS THIRD? Y, BUT THEY’RE ALL IMPORTANT. BUT I WOULD LOVE TO BE AT TOM AND ABBY’S WEDDG. HE’S SUCH A CUTE MAN, AND I REALLY WISH THEM ALL THE CUTT AND BTT.”THOUGH ’S A JOY TO WATCH THE NEW FAB FIVE BOND WH THEIR CLIENTS, QUEER EYE’S GREATT STRENGTH MAY BE THE QUTET’S OWN CLOSENS. WHILE FILMG THE SHOW GEIA, THE GROUP SPENT PLENTY OF DOWNTIME TOGETHER—LOTS OF “DRAG RACE AND CHILL,” VAN NS SAID. AND Y: POROWSKI, THE STMATE WH WHOM VAN NS IS CLOST, ALSO OKED FOR THE GROUP, AND WAS, HE SAID, “REALLY GLOR.” WHILE THE GUYS SOMETIM POKE FUN AT EACH OTHER ABOUT THE MEM THE SHOW HAS BIRTHED—KARAMO BROWN’S OBSSN WH BOMBER JACKETS, NSPIRACY THEORI ABOUT POROWSKI’S CULARY SKILLS—THE GROUP IS ALSO ACCLIMATG TO TV STARDOM.VAN NS DID HAVE SOME EXPOSURE TO THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY PRR TO THE SHOW’S RELEASE. EARLY HIS REER AS A HAIR-SALON ASSISTANT, HE WAS REGULARLY EXPOSED TO CELEBRY CLIENTELE—WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN GLAMORO, IF THE SALON HAD NOT BEEN “SUPER-DUPER ABIVE” TO S EMPLOYE, HE SAID.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANO“I’M JT WAG FOR THE FIRST #METOO MOMENT TO HAPPEN OM A SALON, BEE THE CULTURE OF HOW ASSISTANTS ARE TREATED, PECIALLY SALONS L.A. AND NEW YORK, IS, LIKE, TLY UNBELIEVABLE,” HE SAID. “YOU’RE EXPECTED TO CLOCK OUT FOR LUNCH AND NEVER GET PAID. YOU’RE EXPECTED TO BE THERE AN HOUR EARLY, STAY TWO HOURS LATE. LIKE, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY NO. AND FOR SOMEONE WHO ME OM A REALLY SMALL TOWN AND WAS REALLY, REALLY BULLIED, THAT N BE REALLY DIFFICULT, PECIALLY FOR AN ARTIST TO HEAR. I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE ANNE HATHAWAY THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. IT WAS FELY LIKE A YEAR AND A HALF WHERE, LIKE, THERE WASN’T ONE DAY WHERE I DIDN’T HAVE TO EXCE MYSELF TO THE BACK ALLEY AND CRY.”VAN NS THEN SCRIBED A PARTICULARLY BAD DAY 2010: “THIS ONE TIME, THIS MAN WHO WORKS AT THAT SALON—HE NO LONGER WORKS THERE; HE WORKS AT A DIFFERENT SALON NOW—HE ASKED ME TO BLOW-DRY THE BACK OF A CLIENT’S HAIR STRAIGHT SO HE ULD CUT . I ED A BOAR BRISTLE ROUND BSH STEAD OF A METAL ROUND BSH. SO HE LERALLY THREW THE ROUND BSH AT ME, AND SAID HE—AND I’M QUOTG HERE—‘HOP I DIE OF AIDS,’ ONT OF LIKE FIVE PEOPLE THAT WORK AT THE SALON. NOTHG WAS EVER SAID. NOTHG WAS EVER DONE. THAT’S PAR FOR THE URSE.”THE GROOMG EXPERT, WHO HAS OWNED HIS OWN STUD FOR FOUR YEARS NOW, SAID THAT HE STRIV TO SHRED ANY TRACE OF DEVIL WEARS PRADA ENERGY OM HIS BS. “IN SERVICE DTRI, WE N BE SO PEOPLE-PLEASER-Y THAT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO SET YOUR OWN BOUNDARI. AS I GET OLR, THE MORE I’M LIKE, ‘NO—YOU HAVE TO SET A BOUNDARY,’” HE SAID.HE STILL HAS YET TO FD THE RIGHT BOUNDARY WH FANS WHO E UP TO HIM ON THE STREET TO ASK FOR PHOTOS OR GROOMG ADVICE, OCSNALLY LEANG ON THOSE PEOPLE-PLEASER-Y TENNCI. “A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD ASK ME, ‘ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR LIFE TO CHANGE?’” HE RELLED. “I DON’T THK I WAS ALL THE WAY READY FOR .” BUT HE’S FIGURG OUT, ONE FAN SELFIE AT A TIME. BY THE TIME SEASON 2 ROLLS AROUND, HE MIGHT BE AN EXPERT.PHOTOS: MARK SELIGER LOOKS BACK1 / 5CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY MARK SELIGER.FROM MARK SELIGER PHOTOGRAPHS, PUBLISHED ON MAY 1, 2018 BY ABRAMS.YOHANA DTA

Gay Of Thron. That moment actually me through the web show known as, Gay of Thron, which was part of the Funny Or Die web seri. Gay of Thron was actually credibly succsful and actually saw Jonathan ga an Emmy nomatn for Outstandg Short Form Variety Seri 2019, which was the first of his reer.

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Shortly after Netflix premiered Queer Eye, s reboot of early ghts makeover seri Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, was stantly apparent that Jonathan Van Ns—one of five gay men tasked wh makg over the show’s subjects—was a star.

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