Since rebooting as a Netflix show (it first screened in 2003, under the name Queer Eye For The Straight Guy), it has become a global phenomenon, winning three Emmys and transforming the lives of its hosts as well as its subjects, or “heroes” as the show calls them.įrance’s life has perhaps changed the most. As the self-styled Fab Five spend a week doing their subject up, they also get to what Queer Eye considers the heart of the matter: rooting out issues of poor self-esteem hidden beneath bad hair, cargo pants and Crocs, and trying to mend them. The show he’s referring to is Queer Eye, Netflix’s reality TV smash hit of last year, in which five gay men give someone, usually a man, a whole-life makeover, from style (where France comes in) to interiors, grooming and cooking. Then I realised, oh, I really don’t like that side,” he says. I didn’t actually think about it before the show. So we switch, and he sits and crosses his legs. He wants me, he explains, to see his good side. T an France comes into the room, sits to my right and immediately bounces back up and asks to swap chairs.
