Bobby Berk says he “lost money” on “Queer Eye” during the first two seasons

Bobby Berk becomes sincere about their time on Queer eye.

The interior design expert, 43, appeared on the latest edition of Networth and cool with your rich BFF Podcast, where he discussed and outdated in his time at the show. As fans can remember, Berk announced its departure from the series in November 2023 After eight seasons.

Berk, who showed up on the unwritten makeover series along with Castmates Karamo BrownThe Sunburn FranceThe Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan van NessRemember how he succeeded during the early seasons of the show.

“The first two seasons, I definitely lost money on being on the show,” he said. “Because I mean they paid us basically nothing.”

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“And how much money I lost from not running my business and being away because we had to move away,” he said. “We were gone for five months, and so half the year we were gone, and then we were at just constant press tours.”

It wasn’t until season 3 and 4 that Berk said he finally “broke evenly.”

“To be sincere, they never really paid us. You know, compared to what they pay script stars, we made equally percent,” Berk said. “Of course, what it did, however, were open doors to work with brands, work with companies.”

Berk recalled that fans often became “annoyed” with FAB Five because they often “marketed brands, marketed companies, made brand partnership.”

“They are like” oh, we’re just so sick of this. “And we’re like,” Well, girl, we don’t make money on the show. “He said.

But the former reality star said that the exposure he received was “absolutely” worth it.

“It was tough for the first seasons, but the doors they have opened for other things – absolutely,” he said. “I mean you can’t pay for that kind of exposure. We are really, really lucky to find flashes in a bottle, and the show came out, you know, just at a very defining moment in the world.”

“Donald (Trump) Had just become president for the first time and people were really upset and (at each) of others, “Berk said.

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“We were this happy feeling of five gay who went into red states and agreed and met people in the middle and were people instead of political belongings. It really became a cultural phenomenon,” he continued. “I have never regretted doing it.”