As Kaiser searches for the Summer Couple, we may have finally found them: Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness from Queer Eye. After a month-long flirt off on Instagram, Jonathan posted this pic with Antoni and Karamo Brown before they appeared on the Tonight Show Tuesday night:
Antoni looks smitten, Jonathan coquettish and Karamo jealous. Jonathan used the term “bae,” and the internet lit up with congratulatory salutations over the announcement that we finally had a QE pairing. Karamo, seeing the Instaverse lose its mind, decided it was best to fan the flames while he could, commenting on the above post with:
Hahahahaha I love you both! And for all who are asking. It’s real. They are a couple and in love. First Fab 5 couple.
That’s it. Press pause and let’s all just marinate in the idea that Antoni and Jonathan will ride off in a big, crystal carriage to their (Bobby Berk-built) castle in the sky. Alas, the dream is over. Although many fans suspected it was all an extension of the cast’s tongue-in-cheek relationship with each other, they still wanted it to be real. Many folks did believe it was real. But Jonathan thought it was time to come clean so he took to Twitter and killed off Vanowski:
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
The responses to that tweet, by the way, are incredibly funny, starting with the first response from Antoni himself, “Babe, what?! Um call me rn,” before releasing his own statement reiterating what Jonathan’s said. Sorry, folks, we’ll still have to seek out our Summer Couple.
Unfortunately, this was the last time Jonathan had fun this week since he, like the rest of us, had to read Mario Lopez and Candace Owen’s bs comments on trans children. Jonathan responded to Lopez with eloquence and more compassion than he deserved:
If you’re not raising a child who is part of the LGBTQ+ community you should really be quiet. You don’t need to understand what you do not know. You both need to do better, your causal transphobia is par for the course. Christianity says leave judgment to god. @MarioLopezExtra
— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) July 31, 2019
I like his comment, “You don’t need to understand what you don’t know.” The hope, of course, is that one would educate themselves on important matters they don’t know, but at the very least, leave the declarative statements to those who do understand.
Photo credit: Instagram and WENN Photos
They teased this a few weeks ago on insta. They have an account @jvntoni
Anyone who follows any or all of them knows that they are all constantly holding hands with each other, hugging, kissing, posting about how much they love each other, etc. They are all love bugs and it’s sweet to see men comfortable with that.
I’ve heard rumours that JVN is a mess. I think he was on the Kesha cruise and a few drag queens that were also on there have said on podcasts etc that he was.
I want to know more about this. Do you happen to remember what podcasts this was on?
Maybe Race Chaser? I’m pretty sure it was Willam who was saying it
I think they know how marketable they would be as a couple and are close enough to play that up.
It seems like JVN had a pretty shit relationship end recently – I don’t know details, just what I’d gotten from insta posts – and he seems to be trying to work through that. I adore them both though, so if this was real, it’d be pretty cute.
“I think they know how marketable they would be as a couple and are close enough to play that up”, this, and that should be fine for either sex. Harmless fun, and no different from an actor and actress who are starting in a movie together and playing up chemistry.
JVN looks great in that dress, but Antoni looks like an extra from Grease. Karamo’ red jacket in the bottom photo is amazing.
Love the fab five. Anyone agreeing with Mario Lopez needs to watch the episode they did with the transgender man, Skyler. It is very eye opening.
Antoni has a newish boyfriend. But I would love this couple.
He’s single again. They’ve recently broken up
They would make the cutesttttt couple, friggin’’ love that show
Jonathan looks amazing in that top pic!