When “Queer Eye” viewers tune in to the latest season of the Netflix transformation series (now streaming), they’ll see that the cast itself has undergone a makeover. The Fab Five has a new member.
Jeremiah Brent, who joins returning cast members Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown and Tan France for a Las Vegas-focused cycle of the show, fills the spot left vacant after the show’s OG interior designer, Bobby Berk, announced his exit in 2023.
But the new guy is more than just another doyen of home design.
The 40-year-old is also a reality TV regular, a devoted dad, and one-half of a home-improvement power couple.
Read on to learn more about Brent and his life on- and off-screen.
He’s married to Nate Berkus
The Modesto, California-born designer isn’t the only member of his household with an exceptional eye for interiors. Brent has been married to famed fellow designer, television personality and author Nate Berkus since 2014.
On May 3, 2024, Brent took to Instagram to celebrate his partner and mark their milestone anniversary.
“10 years ago I walked down the aisle and into your arms,” he wrote in the post that also featured a video clip from their Manhattan ceremony. “I thought I had seen the sun, but I had yet to feel its shine — until I met you.”
He continued the emotional message, “We have done so much together, been so much for one another, and every year it gets better and better. On our wedding day I promised you honor, laughter, the presence of mind, the promise to listen, and the conviction to continually grow — and today I find myself more in love with you than ever.”
He’s a reality-TV veteran
Brent began his career in television in 2011, when he joined Season 4 of Bravo’s “The Rachel Zoe Project” and was appointed the envious role of Zoe’s styling associate. Since then, he’s made a number of appearances on various shows, with the most memorable and longest-running being alongside his husband.
Together, the designing duo have starred in a number of titles including HGTV’s “Nate & Jeremiah Save My House” and “The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project,” and TLC’s “Nate & Jeremiah by Design.”
He’s also an author
In February 2024, Brent released his first book, “The Space That Keeps You,” and joined Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager to chat about it.
“It’s funny — when I went out to sell the book, I said, ‘I want to create a design book that’s actually not about design at all,’” he said. “So, everybody looked at me like, ‘What the hell are you talking about?’
He added, “The book is this collection of 10 different families that I met. They’ve been in the same home forever, and it turned into this really beautiful love letter to home and the idea of how we see home. And it’s definitely shifted the way I create, the way that I look at things, the way that I pull things in my own home.”
As for his inspiration to pen the design/not-design book, he credited his friend Oprah Winfrey.
“I was talking to her about how I’ve always been obsessed about this idea of the space that keeps you,” he said. “And she looked at me and was like, ‘That’s the name of your book! You need to write it.’”
He’s a father of two
Brent and Berkus have two children together. However, before marriage, Brent said he couldn’t imagine ever having kids.
“I never wanted to be a parent,” he revealed in a November 2024 interview with the Financial Times. “I never thought I could be a parent. But it cracks life open in a completely different way.”
Their daughter, Poppy, was born March 23, 2015. Three years later, on March 26, they welcomed their son, Oskar.
In an Instagram post he shared for Father’s Day 2024, Brent wrote to Berkus, “My life’s greatest accomplishment, quite possibly, is becoming a father with you. Cheers to parenthood, babe. Wouldn’t have it any other way.”
He’s a big fan of his four Fab co-stars
Before the release of the latest season of “Queer Eye,” Brent shared a secret with his fans and followers on social media: His co-stars aren’t as great as viewers think they are. They’re greater!
“All the best parts of them that you think you know…well, I’m here to tell you that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” he wrote on Instagram in May. “They are committed to the pursuit and protection of beauty and positivity. They have cracked parts of me open that have been compartmentalized for years. Being with them, creating with them — it’s pure joy. They are family. I cannot wait for you to see what we are able to accomplish together.”
