Karamo Brown Is Back on Social Media After Sean Spicer Controversy

Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown disappeared from social media two weeks ago after facing criticism over his bizarre praise of former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

Now he’s back.

Brown surprised fans when he referred to his soon-to-be Dancing with the Stars castmate as “a good guy. A really sweet guy.” Spicer, of course, rose to “fame” as President Trump’s perpetually lying press secretary, perhaps best known from being roasted relentlessly by Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live.

The Queer Eye guru insisted that he was excited to get to know the professional bullshitter, and doubled down on the sentiment when confronted on social media, blocking LGBTQ activists who criticized his support of Spicer, and ultimately deleting his Twitter.

“My kids/family & I were being threatened by strangers,” Brown wrote on Instagram when he returned. “People who I thought supported & loved me turned their backs on me…saying I was a traitor, a horrible person, delusional and treating me really bad.”

The video that went along with his post was of him singing along to a Maren Morris song, saying “everything’s gonna be okay.”

While it’s not remotely okay for anyone to start threatening people or their families over something like this, it’s unfortunate that rather than listening to people who are expressing concern over normalizing a guy like Spicer, who exhaustively lied to the very public he should have been accountable to, Brown seems to just be playing the victim.

His Twitter account remains deleted for the time being, so maybe if and when he reactivates it, he’ll have had more time to think about supporting Spicer, but it looks like we shouldn’t hold our breaths.

Meanwhile, Dancing with the Stars premieres September 16, where the producers and their casting choices will reinforce the idea that reprehensible behavior can make anyone rich and famous.