Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown stepped in it last week when he complimented his Dancing With The Stars co-star Sean Spicer by calling him “a really sweet guy.” But while the whole world seemed to be against Brown for the remarks, his Queer Eye co-star Bobby Berk had his back. At least, for a little while.
“I’m a big believer that if you can talk to someone and meet in the middle that you can learn about each other and help each other both grow,” Brown told Access Hollywood in an interview. “So we have been chatting all day today. Like, he’s a good guy, a really sweet guy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Karamo from Queer Eye saying Sean Spicer is a nice guy. I know. I know.”
Who gave you permission, haters? #QueerEye's @Karamo is defending his fellow #DWTS contestant Sean Spicer: "He's a good guy." ??? pic.twitter.com/A1wDdFFZi2
— Access (@accessonline) August 21, 2019
Brown’s praise of Spicer, who regularly lied to the American people on behalf of Donald Trump during his stint as White House Press Secretary, was met with widespread criticism on Twitter, prompting the reality TV personality to block many of his LGBTQ followers and eventually delete his account altogether.
“We fight harder than your ass ever has for people of color and members of the LGBTQIA community,” Brown quipped at one person before his account went dark.
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And that’s when Bobby Berk got involved. And then un-involved himself less than 24 hours later.
In a since-deleted tweet thread, Berk accused DWTS producers of “planting political land mines” and said he was “saddened” by what Brown was going through.
Berk went on blame the whole thing on “media training,” explaining that Brown, like all DWTS contestants, had been instructed not to criticize other co-stars in interviews.
“We’ve been trained over and over to not talk smack about anyone in interviews and to try to be nice as possible,” Berk said. “When being backed into a corner about voicing his opinions about @seanspicer, Karamo’s media training kicked in as we are trained to do.”
In another tweet, Berk continued: “Don’t talk negatively about people in interviews! Always be nice! It’s frankly a really sh*tty situation to be put in. @ABCNetwork should be ashamed of themselves for having put the cast in the position of having to take political sides on a f*cking dance competition.”
“Everything around us is constantly too political as it is. Shame on you ABC for now making this beloved show political by casting one of the biggest liars who has ever been,” he added. “It’s called ‘Dancing with the STARS’ and the fact that you’re calling him a star is disgusting.”
The tweets mysteriously vanished from Berk’s feed less than 24 hours later. It’s unclear why they were deleted (perhaps his agent told him it’s not a good career move for a reality TV personality to cry “shame” at one of TV’s most powerful networks?), and Berk hasn’t mentioned Brown or the DWTS scandal since, choosing instead to tweet about National Dog Day at to congratulate Taylor Swift on her VMA award.
Meanwhile, DWTS executive producer Andrew Llinares issued a statement to Us Weekly defending Spicer’s casting on the upcoming season.
“We’ve got a great and diverse cast,” the statement read. “We are excited about the season.”
Related: Karamo Brown blocks LGBTQ followers, deletes Twitter account after complimenting Sean Spicer
Cam
“”Meanwhile, DWTS executive producer Andrew Llinares issued a statement to Us Weekly defending Spicer’s casting on the upcoming season.
“We’ve got a great and diverse cast,” the statement read. “We are excited about the season.”””
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I didn’t realize that “Liars who took tax dollars to mislead American taxpayers” was a category of diversity.
youarederanged
Give me any name of any politician or political employee and I can show you where they’ve lied. Do you really not get that every politician says what they need to say to keep people happy? Literally, I dare you to give me any liberal politician or political figure you think isn’t a liar. Got any?
Cam
@youarederanged
Translation: The Trump administration is trying to legalize firing people for being LGBTQ and this troll account is desperate to try to attack “Liberals” to deflect.
Precious, at least TRY to be subtle. Spicer hasn’t been with the administration for quite a while and you’re STILL foaming at the mouth trying to defend him.
youarederanged
Thought so. You can’t name one. When it comes to lying, all politicians and their people are the same, whether they’re Republican or Democrat, or currently in the administration or in a past one. I’ve never met Sean Spicer so I can’t comment on how he is as a person, but as a political figure he is just as much of a stooge and liar as they all are. He just wasn’t as good at pulling it off as others.
Brian
Everyone knows that lying is part and parcel of politics. Including Cam, no matter what talking points he’s spewing.
I mean, does anyone really believe that Obama was genuinely opposed to gay marriage in 2008? A mixed race, far left big city Democrat? Of course he wasn’t. He had to lie until it was politically advantageous for him to say otherwise.
Every single politician lies. You can’t do the job without lying about some things.
Cam
@youarederanged
Awwww, how cute….you tried to derail the topic, and now are trying to pretend that’s what the article is about.
I get it, you, the right wing troll account with 4 screenames, is here to always defend anti-LGBTQ Republicans.
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Kangol2
@Brian, Barack Obama supported same-sex marriage as a state senator in Illinois. Why is this basic fact so hard for people to grasp? Had he been openly supportive of same-sex marriage there is no way he would have been elected as President in 2008, nor would any other Democrat (Hillary Clinton or anyone else) , and certainly no Republican, since the GOP actively pushed anti-gay marriage state laws to reelect George W. Bush (barely) in 2004.
You also write: “I mean, does anyone really believe that Obama was genuinely opposed to gay marriage in 2008? A mixed race, far left big city Democrat? Of course he wasn’t.” Obama was anything but “far left.” On the fascist scale, maybe. But as Democrats go, he was socially liberal and, as his support for corporate and industry bailouts, Wall Street, not using the fiscal cliff to raise taxes on billionaires and hedge funders, and his overall neoliberalism showed, quite moderate on economic policy. Under his watch the Dow Jones tripled and billionaires got substantially richer.
Brian
It’s not hard to grasp if you ignore everything he said about same sex marriage after that, including that he believed marriage is between a man and a woman, which he stated in 2004.
Which just proves my point. I don’t think he ever opposed it, but he said what he thought he needed to say at various points in his political career, which we usually some variation of being ok with domestic partnerships and civil unions. But it’s a fact that he didn’t unequivocally come out in full support of same sex marriage until 2012.
And don’t even try to convince me that he’s not far left. He’s no Bernie Sanders, but he’s hardly a moderate either.
DarkZephyr
Pretty sure this is several days old news. So great that we get to rehash this ridiculous nonsense again.
Brian
I can’t keep up. If Bobby defended Karamo, and Karamo defended Sean, does the transitive property say that means Bobby defended Sean and we should now hate him too? I’ll start preparing some death threats just in case.
EdHusky
I was never crazy about this cast of QueerEye, except for Antonio. This now gives me another reason not to watch the series. If I can’t say anything nice, I won’t say anything at all.
curiobi
I agree. I tried with this new lot I really did, but they are not a patch on the originals, or maybe it’s just that time has moved on and the show doesn’t have the same vibe? I just don’t know. But it’s not working for me as entertainment. Maybe I just loved Carson too much ;D
curiobi
Also I though Sean Spicer was “among the bushes”, not hiding you understand, among.
dinard38
All of this controversy over nothing. Never at any point in this interview did Karamo say that he supported Spicy Sean or any of his politics. He just basically said that he met Sean, and he was a nice guy. News Flash, people. It is quite possible for a person to have shitty political views and be a nice person.
Rex Huskey
who is this fool?