Bobby Berk

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Bobby Berk (2014)

Bobby James Berk (born August 25, 1981 in Houston , Texas ) is an American interior designer and reality television personality. He currently works as an interior designer and design expert for the Netflix series Queer Eye .

Life

Berk was born in Houston (Texas) and grew up in Mount Vernon ( Missouri right in) Amish on farmland. He was adopted. Berk describes how it was difficult for him to be gay in this area and that he struggled with both internal and external homophobia because he attended an Assemblies of God church during his childhood where he was taught that homosexuality is a sin, that all homosexuals are pedophiles, that they go to hell and that they choose to be homosexual. Berk left home at the age of 15 and ended up in Springfield, Missouri, where he lived on the streets at times. If times were good after getting a job at Applebee’s in Branson , Berk would sleep in his car after working double shifts for four days in a row and then drive back to Springfield to try and find a place to sleep . Just before he turned 18, he moved to Denver ( Colorado ), where he obtained a job at Bombay Company got.

Berk currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his husband Dewey Do.

Career

Bobby Berk Home (2011)

Berk moved to New York City in 2003 for just $ 100 . He found a job at Restoration Hardware and Bed, Bath and Beyond before moving to Portico, a high quality home furnishings company. Without a high school diploma or formal training, he worked his way up to creative director. After Portico closed in 2006, Berk started his website and opened his first store in New York City a year later. Miami followed in 2010. Berk opened its online store Bobby Berk Home in 2006 , which has locations in SoHo ( Manhattan ), Midtown Miami ( Florida ) and Midtown Atlanta ( Georgia ). He later founded Bobby Berk Interiors + Design , specializing in interior design services, headquartered on Broadway in Los Angeles . He has appeared on television networks such as HGTV , NBC , CBS and Bravo . He's since 2018, the design expert on the series Queer Eye from Netflix .

Filmography

year Title role Remarks
since 2018 Queer Eye oneself one of the main roles, 33 episodes
2018 The yellow of the egg Episode: 3, 2, 1 ... You are not done!
2019 Lip Sync Battle Season 5, episode 1

Music videos

year song Artist
2018 This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix) Keala Settle , Kesha and Missy Elliott
2019 You need to calm down Taylor Swift

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Netflix Press Release . Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ Charley Locke: 'Queer Eye' Designer Bobby Berk on Creating Space . September 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d About Bobby Berk . Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Anna Fixsen: Queer Eye Host Bobby Berk on the Transformative Power of Design . March 6, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  5. ^ John McManus, Kaitlyn Rossi: Berk-i-tude: the New Term for Electrifying . Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  6. ^ Camp Rules. Queer Eye series . Season 1. Episode 5. Netflix, accessed February 28, 2018.
  7. ↑ The View: Queer Eye's Bobby Berk Talks Being Raised In Religious Household. In: facebook.com. November 28, 2018. Retrieved June 16, 2019 (American English).
  8. ↑ Bobby Berk: The Chaise Lounge - Bobby Berk: Millennial interior design and product . August 23, 2016. Archived from the original on March 13, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  9. ^ A b Jill Gleeson: A Home of Hope: Bobby Berk . November 27, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  10. ↑ Kristen Bahler: How Queer Eye star Bobby Berk paid off $ 600,000 in debt in just 6 months . June 15, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  11. ↑ Ashley Anderson: Bobby Berk of Bobby Berk Home . Apartment Therapy. December 19, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ Tim Mulkerim: Bobby Berk from Queer Eye talks about his reputation as the hardest working member of the Fab Five . March 9, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  13. ↑ NewlyWish Spotlight: Bobby Berk Home (from 00:01:39) on YouTube , October 18, 2010, accessed December 27, 2019.
  14. ↑ Netflix Press Release . Retrieved February 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Berk, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berk, Bobby James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American interior designer and reality television personality
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas