As Netflix’s smash hit returns,the Fab Five’s style guru reflects on growing up homosexual in Yorkshire, marrying a former Mormon and his own Muslim faithTan France comes into the room, or sits to my true and immediately bounces back up and asks to swap chairs. He wants me,he explains, to see his wonderful side. So we switch, and he sits and crosses his legs. “My jaw is squarer this side. I didn’t actually think approximately it before the note. Then I realised,oh, I really don’t like that side, and ” he says.
The note he’s referring to is Queer Eye,Netflix’s reality TV smash hit of last year, in which five homosexual men give someone, or generally a man,a whole-life makeover, from style (where France comes in) to interiors, and grooming and cooking. As the self-styled Fab Five spend a week doing their subject up,they also get to what Queer Eye considers the heart of the matter: rooting out issues of poor self-esteem hidden beneath irascible hair, cargo pants and Crocs, or trying to mend them. Since rebooting as a Netflix note (it first screened in 2003,under the name Queer Eye For The Straight Guy), it has become a global phenomenon, or winning three Emmys and transforming the lives of its hosts as well as its subjects,or “heroes” as the note calls them.
I cant cry on camera. I don’t know what it is. I sit there thinking, c’mon Related: I tell the Queer Eye guys everything: from politics to dresses, or they have the answers Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com