Jonathan Van Ness has been on Queer Eye since it began 10 seasons ago and married their British husband, Mark Peacock, in 2020 – now they reveal what makes British men so hunky
As proven by this year’s Sexiest Man Alive, Jonathan Bailey, British men are hot. It’s an indisputable fact, evidenced time and time again by Idris Elba, Henry Cavill, Dev Patel, Hugh Grant and so on. No one knows this better than Jonathan Van Ness, Queer Eye’s hairstylist, who married a Brit in 2020.
“Not to be a slut, but my husband is so hot,” Jonathan tells the Mirror. “British men are really hot. Like, my husband is just so cute.” Jonathan, who will be bringing their comedy show to the UK this year, married husband Mark Peacock six years ago. At the time, the hairstylist said in an Instagram post: “I got married to my best friend & have a loving partner to continue building my life with.”
Now, they reveal what makes British men so hot. “I think a lot of British people have a massive sense of adventure that y’all don’t get enough credit for,” Jonathan said.
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“When you live in London and it’s dark at like 4pm, you gotta be down to clown,” they add. “British people just find their sense of adventure and will walk to a random pub, where there might be something like table tennis. You go on little adventures. That’s something that is really fun about you.”
They say the path to a person’s heart is through their stomach, and that’s certainly true for Jonathan, who shares a love of beans with Mark. “I also love that you guys do beans for breakfast,” they share.
“I had my first full English when I was in eighth grade, so I knew I loved beans. But my husband’s love of beans for breakfast? It raised it to a whole other level. I keep personalised British Heinz beans in my beauty closet, just in case of some emergency. Like I always have Heinz beans.
“So I just think British people understand the importance of beans.” Then, they lean closer to the web camera and conspiratorially whisper: “I don’t want to talk about this too loud, but I just like to apologise to England for how much American people talk s*** about English food. Because it’s really good. Actually, like I love bingers and mash. I love like, beans.”
Jonathan is set to return to the UK for a comedy tour this year, with what they say is their “most joyful, irreverent political comedy I’ve ever done”. “It’s dealing with the fallout from the election of 2024,” they add, referring to the 2024 American election in which Donald Trump won. “And what I think we need to do to heal as a culture and people.
“I’m taking on misogyny, I’m taking on transphobia, racism, ageism, and then I’m also talking about my personal healing journey, which has been quite turbulent. I think a lot of people have a lot of questions about what my last few years have been like.”
Jonathan says they have “taken a lot of kicks” in the past few years. “My rise to the public sphere was so fast and so disorienting, then I was used in a $200 million ad for Trump, which was quite traumatising.”
They add that they “confused external validation with self-confidence” and that meant they’ve had to do their best to focus on their work and their art in order to get out of bed every day. “I’m aware of when my maladaptive coping strategies have taken the driver’s seat, but I’ve always tried my best.”
The United States of America is a scary place for many at the moment, particularly those being targeted by ICE, who have already killed two people in fatal shootings this year, and those in the trans community, after a series of executive orders placed restrictions on federal gender markers and directed agencies to take action to prevent gender-affirming care for those under 19.
Because of the state of their nation, Jonathan says: “I feel guilty for being healthy and safe. And when I mean healthy, I mean literally having access to my medicine, to food and a safe house to live in. I feel guilty just having basic human stuff.”
But Jonathan still tries to find and show joy where they can and dislikes the trolling that has become prevalent online: “We’ve never had such a wide economic disparity and we need mutual aid – when people are sleeping on the streets, if you’ve got time to talk s*** to strangers on the internet, but you don’t have time to donate cans of food, that’s a problem.
“We’ve become too comfortable with bullying people. So, I have to show my joy where I can because the government’s violence in 2020, this government’s violence now have all lead to pervasive eras of injustice and so much access to violence and dehumanisation.”
This is one reason why their stand-up comedy show is so important right now: “My stand-up has created a safe space for me to explore kind of what has happened in a joyful, comedic way.”
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