Antoni Porowski on ‘No Taste Like Home,’ Getting Emotional About Jeremiah Brent Joining ‘Queer Eye’ and Not Being Familiar With ‘Wicked’ Before the Movie: ‘I Check Some Gay Boxes, But Not All of Them’

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Antoni Porowski may not be as queer as you think he is. On today’s “Just for Variety” podcast, he says he’s the “Wicked” movie but that was actually his introduction to the beloved “Wizard of Oz” origin story. “Full disclosure, I hadn’t seen the musical and I wasn’t really sure what it was about before,” Porowski says. “I check some gay boxes, but not all of them.” “Wicked” or not, Porowski has spent the last seven years as one of Hollywood’s most visible out celebrities as a member of the fab five of the award-winning “Queer Eye?” Now in its ninth season, Porowski is hoping for an even 10.

However, he says things may have gotten a little stale along the way. “I’m not going to say that I became jaded over time, but it’s like when you do anything…I think I just wasn’t as grateful,” he says.

Porowski struggled at finding fresh ways to talk about food during the makeovers. “I’m literally looking up synonyms on words.

How do I ask in a different way, ‘Tell me about your relationship with food?’ Or, ‘What did your grandma make for you?’” Porowski says.