As a cast member during all 10 seasons of the Netflix Queer Eye reboot, the 45-year-old Karamo Brown is the show’s resident culture expert. What he brings is less of a vibe check, like on the original run of the show, and more mental health support. With a background in social work and psychotherapy, the LA-based Brown quickly carved out a space for himself on the show as a catalyst for healing.

During a watershed moment in the fourth season, Brown famously reunited the episode’s hero — a paralyzed victim of gun violence named Wesley Hamilton — with the man who shot him. The pair sat down for a conversation, which was facilitated by Brown, resulting in monumental displays of understanding, vulnerability, and forgiveness.

Brown has a particular knack for creating a safe space where people can be heard, learn, and move forward. It can be seen again and again during his tenure on Queer Eye. It’s also the winning formula that he’s transferred to his daytime talk show, The Karamo Show.

“I’m trying to get deeper with you all, but something is going on,” Brown says in an episode during the talk show’s fourth season. It’s an approach he returns to often: He helps his guests let their guard down and unpack what is actually under the surface.

Equal parts family therapy and Jerry Springer, the Karamo talk show debuted in 2022. In it, we see Brown helping families navigate conflict, confront paternity questions, and unpack generational trauma. And where past shows of a similar ilk dial up the drama and spiral into chaos, Brown keeps things calm, holding boundaries with guests, and giving the kind of tough love that still makes for good TV. After four seasons, the show will cease production, with Brown throwing his energy behind new projects instead — like the Donor Dad podcast, which launched on March 25.

What we particularly love about Brown is how vulnerable and transparent he is about his own life, whether that’s talking about his sobriety journey, his path to fatherhood, how he co-parents, and how his own way of managing conflict has evolved as he’s grown.

Brown’s digital presence numbers in the millions, with some 342,800 followers on TikTok and 2.5 million on Instagram; for the Karamo Show TikTok account, the audience is upwards of 2.3 million. Across all accounts, the content spreads the same feel-good, self-help support that he’s built his personal brand on. We follow to get bite-sized nuggets about how to be our own best selves, to bask in the warm glow of his wisdom, and to get a daily dose of that big brotherly energy that seems to follow Brown wherever he lands.

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