The Cast Of ‘Queer Eye’ Demanded They All Be Paid The Same
Queer Eye is all about getting paid the same, honey, and they’re staying true to their word.
“When the boys and I were cast we banded together and made sure we got paid the same thing,” Jonathan Van Ness told Wealth Simple of he and the rest of the Fab 5: Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Tan France and Antoni Porowski. “I’m really into that part of our story.”
He added, “We’re homies. We’d all feel so resentful if one of us was getting more or less than the others. It would create a very, like, not cool work environment.”
“We film in Atlanta because it’s cheaper to live there and we can do more for the guys we’re making over with less money,” he explained. “And for taxes I suppose. But there’s definitely a cultural piece to it as well … The guys in Georgia have a different aesthetic too, which makes it interesting.” He later quipped, “The longer I do hair and the better I get at doing hair the more I can charge. But I do think that the more sought after I become, the supply and demand thing will have to apply. Time is money, honey.”