Who Gave You Permission to Create Queer Eye, David Collins?

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

David Collins is a three-time Emmy Award winning producer and is the creator and Executive Producer of Queer Eye. He joins Jonathan to talk the inspiration of the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, how that lead to the creation of the current iteration, the selection process of the Fab Five, his own relationship with queerness, and more. You can find more at David’s website scoutproductionsinc.com. Follow David on Instagram @styletasteandclass. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:05.7	This is Jonathan Vaness.
0:07.0	Every week I sit down for a 30 minute conversation, so nice week go over with a brilliant expert
0:12.4	to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:13.9	Honey, well this week I've got a very dear friend, someone who I look up to a lot, someone
0:18.5	who has changed my life for the better, the creator of Queer Eye, David Collins.
0:26.3	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:27.3	This is Jonathan Vaness.
0:28.3	I'm excited for this episode.
0:29.3	We have a very major guest.
0:30.3	I'm very excited to introduce you all to Mr. David Collins, who is, I don't know if you
0:35.0	remember this, but if you watch Queer Eye, if you're a fan of it, you would see right after
0:39.5	the cute little opening right before it comes to the episode.
0:41.3	It says, created by Honey and then it says, David Collins.
0:44.9	So you're learning the creator of Queer Eye.
0:46.6	I am.
0:47.6	So tell us what happened.
0:49.3	You were mining your own business one day because Queer Eye, the Queer Eye numero uno was
0:53.9	2003 to 2007.
0:55.3	Correct.
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:57.3	So you were mining your own business and Boston.
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