Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski aren’t in a romantic relationship. They’re not a couple. They’re not attached, seeing each other, taking things slow, dating, or going out. They’re mates, according to Van Ness himself, and that’s just something you’re gonna have to deal with.
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Let’s recap. Yesterday, ahead of the Queer Eye gang’s appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, JVN posted an Instagram caption intimating he and co-star Porowski were a thing. The piccie included their on-screen pal Karamo Brown flipping the bird, and JVN used the image’s caption to declare Brown was just jealous.
Brown responded with this:
Brown’s comment sent fans into meltdown, but skepticism remained. Here’s our own take on the matter:
I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANY MORE. On the one hand, we all know the Fab 5 are not above a bit of good old-fashioned pranking. On the other hand, Karamo does not strike me as the kind of guy to straight-up LIE on a public platform just for a gag.
Turns out he is, and we’ve been taken for fools. Taking to Twitter overnight, Van Ness confirmed the whole thing was a stitch-up, and that Brown likely took the nuclear option after being declared a jealous little so-and-so.
Also for clarification, @antoni & I are a couple…. of very close friends who run a satirical couple account and may fall in love someday, but that day is not necessarily today. Love yew hauxs
— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) July 31, 2019
Even then, Porowski flipped the joke back:
Babe, what?! Um call me rn
— Antoni Porowski (@antoni) July 31, 2019
It was some good press for all involved and cannon fodder for the show’s legion of shippers, we’re sure, but there is no on-set romance.
Or is there?
(Nah there’s not, soz.)
