Bobby Berk wasn’t eyeing to throw shade.
The interior designer announced his new HGTV series Junk or Jackpot? on July 10, just one day after news that Queer Eye—on which he starred with Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness (JVN) and Tan France before being replaced by Jeremiah Brent in 2024—was canceled after 10 seasons.
While the timing of his announcement raised eyebrows, Bobby said it was anything but a dig on his old show.
“I swear on my mother’s life, my show announcement date was set,” Bobby told People in an interview published Aug. 22. “This was planned. Show announcements don’t happen on a whim.”
The 43-year-old added that even one of his former costars reached out to get some clarification, saying, “Karamo was like, ‘Girl, the day after?’ I’m like, ‘No, no, no. I promise you it was already planned.”
Besides, according to Bobby, he had no idea Queer Eye was on the chopping block. As he put it, Netflix “could have easily given me a heads-up on when that was going to be announced.”