Who is Jeremiah Brent, Queer Eye’s new design expert – and why did Bobby Berk leave? Brent will join the ‘Fab Five’ on the Emmy Award-winning Netflix show for Season 9, set in Las Vegas

Mar 1 , 2024

Jeremiah Brent just joined the cast on Queer Eye. Photo: @jeremiahbrent/Instagram

Bobby Berk is a fan favourite who starred on the reality show since it debuted in 2018 – which is why viewers were shocked by news of his departure 3 months ago

Jeremiah Brent is next to take Berk’s role – he’s married to fellow designer Nate Berkus, has 2 children by surrogate, and has been in reality TV for years, for Bravo and the Oprah Winfrey Network

The latest iteration of the Fab Five has a fresh new face on board.

Roughly three months after the news that Queer Eye design expert Bobby Berk would be leaving the series after season eight, Netflix announced that Jeremiah Brent will be stepping in to replace him.

The new interior designer will join long-time castmates Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness for season nine of the Emmy Award-winning series, which is set to be filmed in Las Vegas.

But who is Jeremiah Brent and where might you have seen him before?

Who is Jeremiah Brent?

Jeremiah Brent is an interior design expert. Photo: @jeremiahbrent/Instagram

Brent, whose birth name is Jeremy Clevenger Johnson, is a design industry superstar hailing from Modesto, California.

The self-taught interior decorator first made a splash in the world of reality TV as a styling associate on season four of Bravo’s The Rachel Zoe Project. Years later, he hosted the Emmy Award-winning Home Made Simple for two seasons on the Oprah Winfrey Network and starred in TLC’s Nate & Jeremiah by Design alongside his husband, fellow interior designer Nate Berkus.

Jeremiah Brent (left) and his husband Nate Berkus are both interior designers. Photo: @jeremiahbrent/Instagram

Berkus and Brent – the first same-sex couple to be featured in ads for Banana Republic – were married in 2014 and are the parents of eight-year-old daughter Poppy and five-year-old son Oskar, both of whom were born via egg donors and surrogates.