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“I’m never going to survive this show,” declares Jeremiah Brent, the newest member of Queer Eye, early into this season as he wipes back tears.
Brent joined the ninth season of the Netflix series, stepping into the role of interior designer previously held by Bobby Berk, whose complicated exit from the show in 2023 generated headlines over behind-the-scenes drama.
In the short time since the season launched, Brent has made an endearing impression as the walking, talking, crying-face emoji of the Fab Five.
Who knew a makeshift canopy bed could prompt an ugly cry? If you know, you know.
I get three days to redo their entire home from top to finish, which I’ll never complain about because I love the work and I love doing it, but it’s intense
Jeremiah Brent
The television makeover space is familiar territory for Brent. He and his husband, noted interior designer Nate Berkus – whose popularity rose after appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the 2000s – have worked on shows Nate & Jeremiah by Design and The Nate and Jeremiah Home Project.
In a video call from his home in New York, Brent spoke about all those tears, the challenge of transforming spaces in three days and texting with HomeGoods managers.


Jeremiah, are you OK?
[Laughs.] Somebody came up to me today – what did she say? She’s like, “There’s a whole campaign where people are saying, ‘Someone’s got to check on Jeremiah.’” I’m great. Listen, I’ve never been better. I definitely wept the whole time, as you can see. But it was happy tears.
You’re familiar with changing people’s lives by transforming their spaces. How is this different?
I’ve never dealt with the stakes that this show has inherently built in. I really get three days to redo their entire home from top to finish, which I’ll never complain about because I love the work and I love doing it, but it’s intense.
Something that I set for myself as a goal this season is that I don’t want to be known as somebody who makes the same room 40 different ways and is known as one-note. The spaces that I was designing were not for the viewer. They were for the people in the house, and I really wanted you to see their personalities reflected in those spaces.

You’ve said before that you’ve never met Bobby – you were on a panel with him once before, but didn’t meet – and didn’t connect with him since joining the show. Did you want to? And what would you say to him about the foundation he set in this reboot?
I have a tremendous amount of respect for anybody who has put themselves in and done the work that he’s done. Eight seasons is a long time. It just speaks to the relationship that he had with the viewers, how stressed out everybody was that he was not going to be there in the next season.
Creativity should never be and doesn’t ever need to be adversarial. There’s so much beauty and there’s so much opportunity. I’ve got a tremendous amount of respect for what he did and my commitment coming into the show was to honour what the show is and what it’s been, to put my own spin on it, just because I’m my own person.

Did you have any stipulations going into this experience – like, “If I’m going to do this right or in a way that really serves these people, we’re going to need to up the budget a little bit”? Did the budget get bigger?
I wish. The budget was less. There’s a fun fact – run that as the headline! Because somebody said to me the other day, they’re like, “It looks like the budget went up.” I was like, “It didn’t.”
I was on the phone constantly. I was scouring local areas. I was at every HomeGoods you’ve ever heard of. I was at every flea market you’ve ever heard of.
There’s an amazing team that never gets the credit they deserve – the design team behind the scenes. It’s actually been there forever. I was like, “I want real marble.” I would scour salvage yards and marble that had been thrown away.
I was just getting scrappy because I meet these people, and I really want to give them everything I can. And they’re asking for nothing. That’s the beauty of it.
How much prep time do you have before coming up with a design?
A: None.

What?
None. I get an idea of who we’re meeting. I walk the space for the first time that you see on camera. I think there was twice that I went in early and I didn’t like it and so I do it in real time. Then the design team comes in. They’re in a van waiting outside.
As soon as our scenes are done, we get to work; they move out the stuff. I’m sitting there designing and sketching and drawing, because I draw everything, and I have to create it first visually, and then we go to sourcing. It’s in real time. I’m uniquely qualified for it. I like the chaos of it.
Was there a space where you almost didn’t finish in that time frame?
I’m always early.
What? How? There’s so little time you have to work with.
There was never a delay from design. I am a psycho. I place every piece of furniture. I place every book, every candle, every pillow. I have a design team, but they would be like, “Can you let somebody do something?” And I’d be like this, “You guys have helped get it here, let me just put it where it needs to go.”


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Queer Eye interior designer Jeremiah Brent hugs a participant in the new season of the Netflix show. He reveals how he renovates homes in days. Photo: TNS

(From left) Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Tan France and Jeremiah Brent in a still from Queer Eye. Photo: Netflix

Christopher Magallanez (left) and Brent in a still from Queer Eye. Photo: Netflix

(From left) France, Porowski, Karamo Brown, Van Ness and Brent in a still from Queer Eye. Photo: TNS

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Queer Eye’s Jeremiah Brent talks about crying all the time on the hit Netflix series, being a ‘psycho’ and renovating homes in days


Queer Eye’s Jeremiah Brent talks about crying all the time on the hit Netflix series, being a ‘psycho’ and renovating homes in days.


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