Hi, love, how are you?
Hi, Bobby.
It's so good to see you.
You too.
Oh, the last time we saw each other
was at Family Feud backstage, and I like
fangirled all over you guys.
It was amazing.
You guys had just come from a triumphant win.
We were on our way to a horrible loss.
It was a great show.
Oh, you played against the original cast of Queer Eye,
right?
We did, and they kicked our butts.
I love it.
So, you're an amazing design expert,
but I heard you almost didn't become one?
So, I never really had any plans on being a designer, you know.
I grew up in a little bitty town in the middle of Missouri.
The only design I knew of was Designing Women.
That old show, I'm sure you remember
Delta Burke, Bobby Burke--
Oh, I'm familiar.
[INAUDIBLE]
So, I ended up moving to New York.
And I was just going to become a server,
like, I'm just going to get a job as a server,
I want to live in New York.
That's my dream.
So, I moved there with $100 and a suitcase.
And that was 2003, and yeah, things didn't go as planned,
but I think things went OK.
So, over the last year with everybody
being home for the pandemic and wanting to update their homes,
and do home improvement and all that,
have you been just getting inundated with texts and calls
about how to do that?
Because I was about to call you.
[LAUGHTER]
I think I've done about 6,000 interviews
about working from home spaces and how
to change your work from home.
Jonathan asked me to help him design
his house, which was prompt no.
[LAUGHTER]
I thought just because we're brothers,
and so, you don't mix work with siblings.
I'm like, if we're going to continue
to love each other the way we do,
we probably shouldn't design a house together.
And then Tan, everyone always thinks, Oh, you
helped Tan do his house, right.
No.
Tan Is very-- very much he wants to do it.
He is so good with design, and he knows he's good with design.
And he has been quoted as--
I know everyone thinks I probably have Bobby help me,
but I do it all on my own.
Well, you can come to my house anytime you want, because like,
I would love that.
Let me know.
We just wrapped Queer Eye here in Texas so--
I'm going to slip into your DMs and take you up on that
and take you up on that after this.
-- you know what.
We have a lot of fire ants here in Texas
Oh, you have a lot of fire ants?
I don't love that.
They love my nipples.
I had a traumatic experience too.
Have you heard?
When I was little, I spent my summers in Texas.
And I was sitting in the grass, and I
had a few come up into my underpants so, I also had--
How was that for you?
-- a really bad story like you did.
Oh, wow.
Oh, I knew I would love you.
Fire ants love our nasty bits.
My nasty bits!
So, you were actually filming the sixth season
of Queer Eye when the pandemic started,
and you guys had to shut down.
So, we hadn't quite made it through one episode.
We had almost finished.
Luckily though, we had finished all the construction,
and our hero got to see their house otherwise,
they'd still be sitting here waiting
to see their house for a year.
But, got all the construction done.
They got the reveal of their home.
There was the tears.
It was amazing and then the next day, we all got sent home.
But you finished.
You were able to finish this summer in Texas.
We're back, we finished.
It's all great now.
In hot Texas During the summer?
You have no idea.
There's a reason why I left Texas as a child.
It's too hot.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, before we go, we want to show you
a few random homes that we found that need a little help,
and we want to know how you, Bobby Berk, would fix them.
All right, let's look at them.
Oh.
You know, I have--
I recently saw this image and was just as
flabbergasted now as I was the first time I saw it.
I think that looks like a broken hip waiting to happen.
And no matter what age you are, you just fall into the bathtub.
[LAUGHTER]
All right, let's see another one.
Are those mannequins?
Wow.
That's a choice.
This is quarantine design.
They needed friends.
They were lonely, so they put mannequins in their house.
All right, next one.
Oh, see, I wouldn't do anything different on this one.
Does he come with the home?
Because--
For the right price.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
All five seasons of Queer Eye are available on Netflix
and check out Bobby's website bobbyberk.com.
We'll be right back.