Jonathan Van Ness

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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There is still plenty of unecessary stigma and shame still in the world - but what can we do about it? The star of Netflix hit Queer Eye and web series Gay Of Thrones talks with Fearne about coming to terms with his HIV status, how therapy has tamed his addictions... and his ambitions for a cat hotel.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern cotton and this is the show where we discover
0:08.0	how people find contentment regardless of what they've been through. And today's guest
0:14.0	has been through a lot. He is one of the stars of Query. It is the gorgeous Jonathan Vaness.
0:22.4	During the Game of Thrones I went to the doctor like not long after that for my normal
0:24.8	like three month checkup and my numbers were weird like I was undetectable but my T cells
0:28.4	were like lower than normal and he was like have you done like what anything going on and I was like
0:33.6	like two weeks ago I went on my friends and like I kind of like was like up for 36 hours because I
0:37.5	think there was maybe could have been a little speed in this field because making me feel like
0:40.9	real nasty and sexy and I haven't felt like that in a little bit so like I think maybe because
0:44.7	that's the thing about like Molly and like other drugs it's like if you don't know what's in it you
0:47.2	don't know what's in it. Stan boy for a very entertaining chat about cats a lot of cats as well as
0:53.6	some darker times that he talks through about his battles with drugs and his extraordinary campaign
0:59.2	I mean it's extraordinary to destigmatize those who are HIV positive. Jonathan is a man who has
1:06.8	been through a huge amount of change. For this episode of Happy Place we partnered with Heritage
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1:21.1	of a busy modern home available in a beautifully timeless colour palette that allows us to fill our
1:28.1	homes with whichever rich feelings we please. I've got a pot of an utterly gorgeous rich shade called
1:37.3	Deep Ultra Marine right here. Do you know the Lapis Lazuli stone it's like that a completely hypnotic
1:48.2	balloon that reminds me of just how much I feel mesmerised whenever I'm by the sea on the south coast
1:56.1	it's got that gorgeous seaside feel to it that deep sea feel to it whenever I'm by the sea I feel
2:05.6	oh just so much calmer my nervous system my physical body just everything slows down a bit and
2:12.8	feels less edgy and that means my thoughts stop racing they're just at a slower pace and I feel like
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