Bobby Berk Addresses His ‘Queer Eye’ Departure: ‘Time to Move On’

Bobby Berk opened up about his Queer Eye departure — and what is up coming for him.

“I’m sensation excellent,” Berk, 42, solely informed Us Weekly at the Gold Gala in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday, May 11. “You know I experienced a really great encounter for seven many years. And you know, for me, it was just time to shift on to other issues.”

He ongoing, “I had built peace with that at the close of New Orleans two decades ago due to the fact we all believed that was the end and I started off performing on other projects.”

As for what individuals other endeavors will be, Berk teased that he’s doing the job on tasks equally in entrance and at the rear of the digital camera.

“There’s some scripted reveals that I’m in development on,” he included. “So a good deal of fun issues and then of study course my structure business. I’d experienced it ahead of Queer Eye and even now have it. It’s been a large amount of enjoyable.”

Though navigating a new occupation route, Berk famous that he has his husband, Dewey Do, to lean on.

“My spouse and I have been alongside one another for 20 years very last 7 days, which we both forgot until finally past night time,” he claimed. “We were like, ‘Oh hold out! Oh, hold out, no, our anniversary handed or whatever.’ But to me, that’s a great marriage. Wherever it’s not about certain dates. We rejoice each individual other each and every day. He’s my rock, you know, he retains me very grounded. Yeah, he’s my ideal buddy.”

Berk, who reported that he sometimes had to share own stories to assist individuals deal with feelings on the clearly show, extra that his spouse has been there for him.

“I signify, there were a ton of occasions where by I had to deal with some demons,” he said. “I had to deal with some trauma from childhood and adolescence that I did not want to and so he was usually there to keep me when I arrive house and practically cry.”

Berk declared his exit from Queer Eye immediately after six several years in November 2023. “It’s with a hefty heart that I announce that period 8 will be my last period on Queer Eye,” he wrote via Instagram at the time. “It’s not been an easy selection to be at peace with, but a necessary one. Although my journey with Queer Eye is around, my journey with you is not. You will be looking at much more of me quite before long.”

Days just after his post, a source told Us that his departure was “because he wasn’t vibing with the solid.” The insider extra, “There ended up a lot of troubles with scheduling [and] there was a reduction of desire from Bobby filming the show. The network and the cast considered it was time to provide in fresh new blood. His heart was not in it and the rest of the forged commenced to resent him for the reason that of that.”

A second resource told Us that Berk “was not questioned to leave” and the “decision was amicable.”

In the course of an job interview with Self-importance Honest in January, Berk resolved his depart, noting that he and the rest of the first cast had been prepared to hold up their hat immediately after their seven-cycle deal was up in September 2022. However, pursuing the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, Netflix supplied them a new contract for 4 cycles, which Berk assumed he was going to indicator together with his costars.

“We’d just assumed that the show wouldn’t appear back again if we all did not occur back. I was like, I’m not going to be possessing FOMO cause the exhibit is not going to take place. I experienced grow to be at peace with it,” Berk pointed out, including that the other customers renewed their contracts and Netflix decided they could “recast just one person” — who was Berk.

Even though being to begin with “angry” with the transform of functions, Berk pointed out that he had designed designs he “wasn’t willing” to alter.

With reporting by Lanae Brody