Bobby Berk is formally a member of the HGTV household because the superstar decide on Season 6 of Rock the Block, and it looks as if that is simply the very starting of his time with the community.
Forward of the Rock the Block premiere on Monday, April 14, HGTV shared a video clip of Berk on set, and the designer popped into the feedback part to tease his future plans. “Yay!! The place it began! Can’t anticipate this season and for what’s to come back with me and HGTV,” he wrote.
Berk is finest identified for his function as the inside design professional on Netflix’s Queer Eye. He confirmed his departure from the present in 2023 and introduced that Season 8, which aired firstly of 2024, can be his final.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I announce that Season 8 shall be my closing season on Queer Eye,” he shared. “It’s not been a simple resolution to be at peace with, however a vital one. Though my journey with Queer Eye is over, my journey with you isn’t. You can be seeing extra of me very quickly.” Jeremiah Brent, who beforehand labored on two HGTV exhibits of his personal, was Berk’s substitute.
In January 2024, Berk expanded on his departure in an interview with Vainness Truthful. He defined that he and his castmates had signed a seven-cycle contract when the present started in 2018. “We thought we have been performed. Mentally and emotionally, I assumed all of us moved on. I do know I did, and I began planning different issues,” he defined.
Netflix ended up providing a brand new contract following the SAG-AFTRA strike in 2023, which Berk opted to not signal. He stated he was below the impression that his costars additionally wouldn’t be re-signing. Ultimately, the opposite 4 members of the “Fab 5” did resolve to signal the brand new contract, and Netflix went by means of with it since they solely needed to recast one individual.
“I simply wasn’t keen to vary [my plans],” Berk stated. “I’d have needed to pump the brakes on a number of different initiatives which are already in course of. We had mentally simply ready ourselves to maneuver on. That’s why I left.” He additionally denied rumors that his exit was as a consequence of a feud with Tan France.
“There was a state of affairs, and that’s between Tan and I, and it has nothing to do with the present. It was one thing private that had been brewing. And nothing romantic, simply to make clear that,” he shared. “Ought to I’ve unfollowed Tan? No. Possibly I ought to have simply muted him. However that day, I used to be indignant, and that’s the tip of it. We turned like siblings. And siblings are at all times going to struggle.”
Rock the Block, Season 6 Premiere, Monday, April 14, 9/8c, HGTV