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'Queer Eye' Reboot Gets Political

David Collins, creator of Netflix's Queer Eye talks about how the reboot is different from the 2003 Bravo show, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.
Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk and Karamo Brown attend the after party for the premiere of Netflix's <em>Queer Eye</em> Season 1 at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy ran on the Bravo TV network from 2003 to 2007. The show focused on a group of five chatty, personable gay men, called the "Fab Five," as they gave a make over to a straight man who needed help getting his life back on track. Each member of the Fab Five specialized in one of the essential elements of style: design, personal grooming, fashion, food and pop culture.

The show was a surprise hit as it aired in a country that was

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