“I actually got chosen.
“They came in [and said to my group], ‘You’re the Fab Five.’
We all went outside the room, screaming, jumping up and down.
Stuart O’Keeffe with Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, and Tan France.Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Tan France, and Stuart O’Keeffe.
I was like, ‘Let’s get a photograph.
This is such a great moment for us.”
Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Tan France, and Stuart O’Keeffe.
Chef Stuart O’Keeffe says he was cast in the ‘Queer Eye’ reboot, then unexpectedly replaced by Antoni Porowski.getty (2)
“And two days later I get pulled out and Antoni gets pulled in,” he said.
Of the explanation he was given, he recalled, “The production company wanted me on the show.
I’d done other shows with them.
They were like, you’d be perfect for this.
You have a cookbook out.
It all ties in perfectly.
I had a cookbook out and I’d done multiple shows before, where the other four hadn’t.
So they were like, they kind of want everybody on the same level.”
“And then the production company called me, they were like, ‘We’re really sorry.
We didn’t know the assistant was going to post this video.’
I was like, I’m fine.
I’ll just like cry for the next year.”
Netflix did not respond to EW’s request for comment.
“It was such a missed opportunity for me, but you know what, everything works out.”
Hes an excellent cook and taught me a lot.
Food is his passion.
Watch O’Keeffe’sDon’t Let It Stupodcast above.
