Jonathan Van Ness On 'Queer Eye,' Cats, And Overcoming Trauma

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

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Jonathan Van Ness stepped into the spotlight in 2018 as a walking, talking bundle of energy, optimism and positivity as the grooming expert on Queer Eye. Queer Eye is now in production for its sixth season, and Jonathan— along with the rest of the Fab 5— have been nominated for an Emmy for their work as hosts this year. In this conversation from 2019, Sam chats with JVN about his book, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, a memoir about his life journey and addressing his trauma along the way.

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:02.4	I'm Sam Sanders, and today I'm revisiting one of my favorite conversations, maybe ever
0:08.0	on this show.
0:09.0	It's a chat with the one and only Jonathan Van S.
0:13.2	You might know Jonathan, or JVN, as he's called, as a grooming expert on the Netflix
0:18.0	Makeover Show Queer Eye.
0:20.0	He is very hard to miss.
0:21.8	JVN is this walking, talking bundle of energy and optimism.
0:26.9	It's almost like the reverse of I woke up like this.
0:30.0	Did anyone ever wake up like this?
0:31.9	Here is Broke as a joke.
0:33.4	There's no excuse for you to not have some face wash, actually the way that he is is
0:37.5	great and it looks amazing.
0:39.4	So Queer Eye is now in production for its sixth season.
0:43.2	And Jonathan, along with the rest of the Fab Five, as they're called, they are up for
0:47.5	an Emmy for Best Reality Show host this year.
0:50.4	This whole month we've been sharing other conversations with other actors and performers
0:54.3	up for Emmy this year, so go check out the feed for more if you like.
0:58.0	Anyway, in this chat, we talk about Queer Eye and JVN's journey to get to this point in
1:02.5	his life and career.
1:04.4	It was not easy.
1:05.7	JVN writes about all of it in his memoir, which is called Over the Top, a raw journey to
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