In his late twenties, Antoni Porowski dreamed about having a household, a canine and proudly owning a Brooklyn brownstone with a yard, however then “life actually modified.” That change got here within the type of fame and a much bigger checking account by way of the 2018 debut of the Netflix hit collection “Queer Eye,” a reprise of Bravo’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Man.”
Mr. Porowski, 41, is a member of the present’s “Fab 5,” a bunch of topic consultants who, over the course of an episode, assist makeover the lifetime of a person, known as a “hero.” In his position because the present’s meals and wine knowledgeable, Mr. Porowski gained over followers together with his charisma and accessible ideas for fuss-free cooking. Years into his tenure on the present, which launched its ninth season in December 2024, Mr. Porowski’s enterprise supervisor known as to say that he ought to think about buying a house. Mr. Porowski hesitated. “I didn’t need the strain and the stress of proudly owning a house,” he mentioned. “It gave me a little bit of angst. I simply didn’t need to develop up.”