Queer Eye star Karamo Brown has called off his engagement just a few months after re-proposing.
He says living under quarantine, with all the extra free time that entails, led to Brown and ex-fiancé Ian Jordan deciding to end their 10-year relationship.
The couple has been together for ten years and got engaged (the first time) in May of 2018. Their wedding was postponed due to the pandemic and has now been “postponed officially.”
Brown spoke about it during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, telling guest host Stephen “tWitch” Boss:
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“My fiancé and I, we were together for 10 years, and we broke up about three and a half months ago.
“We were distracted by so much – with the kids, and our careers – that during that time, I had to really say, how is our communication? How are other parts of our lives? Are we growing in the same place?”
He added: “We’re not 20 anymore, so it wasn’t just, ‘Oh, I’m not going to text you anymore’ – it was like, we have a family and a home. How do we separate this? And it was hard. We went to virtual counseling, we did a lot of things.
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“But eventually I was like, this is a moment where I need to decide, is my happiness important? And once I made that decision, I said, you know, we are going to have to break up.”
Brown said he feels lucky that there was “no cheating” to blame for the breakup, and that they remain “good friends.”
He then joked: “Yeah, no more wedding — so if ya’ll got any friends!”
In a since-deleted Instagram post from May of this year, Brown told fans he’d proposed (again) to Jordan during the lockdown.
“During this quarantine, I have fallen even deeper in love with my fiancé Ian Jordan.
“So, on his birthday – which is also our anniversary – I proposed again. Our wedding has been cancelled/postponed like so many other people but I still wanted to celebrate our love.
“I love you, Sugah!” he added.
jayceecook
Sean Spicer might be up for a little rub and tickle. Try texting him the next time you’re in a toilet stall.
Tyrone Johnston
I genuinely wish that Karamo would just go away.
MISTERJETT
he’d probably say the same thing about you – along with the rest of us. why try to be such a female dog???
Kangol2
I knew when I saw this beautiful man cavorting in that infinity pool with those young White things that his pending marriage was not long for this world. Although no “cheating” may have occurred, I don’t doubt that the pandemic quarantine, being confined at home, and then getting out and about with some hotties spurred Karamo to reconsider, unfortunate as this is for his nuptials and household. The blond fireman he seemed so intrigued by in one of the episodes of Queer Eye just might be getting a text/DM from Karamo if the infinity pool pals already haven’t.
Essie
He says they “aren’t 20 anymore” but to get re-engaged in May telling the world how much you love each other and then completely breaking up by September sounds like very young people having a snit. A 10-year relationship deserves more thought.
mz.sam
Better now than too late (parting as friends). The pandemic has brought out the best…and the worst in people.
vinnieboiblue
Just be happy there was no domestic violence involved. This pandemic has led to more suicides and domestic abuse filings due to the stress of being cuked up too long.
toddlicious
Again…. Karamo who????????? Ugh. He’s so 2015. Enough with these non story stories about this has been.
DarkZephyr
That doesn’t make sense unless you’re in need of some special memory enhancing medications.
controversial2019
So they broke up 3.5 months ago according to his interview? So…end of May/beginning of June?
So he reproposes and within a fortnight, it’s over? Sounds odd…
WashDrySpin
Kamaro used his “relationship” as a prop to elevate his social profile…nothing more and something a lot less
ElPillo
YAWN….
Saps48
Of course he’s not 20 anymore, he’s going to be 40 in November.
Also, I listened to his memoir on audiobook CD and he is one of the most insufferable yet clueless “personalities” out there. I’m surprised his fiancé didn’t go insane during their lock down together.
Vince
Oh snap. I’d be like..oh honey you haven’t been that since the turn of the last century.
Vince
Oh my god. 200, 000 dead and now this!! Kidding.
Seriously, I stopped watching Queer Eye after Karson Cressley and the rest.
justgeo
As Momma Rose would say ‘Good bad to bad garbage they were rotten in the act any way’ Cant we just get rid of the whole batch of these icky ‘queers’. The franchise is shit now!