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‘Queer Eye’ star Jonathan Van Ness mocks treasury secretary’s wife Louise Linton
Tan France, Antoni Porowski also joined in the trolling

Jonathan Van Ness (Screenshot via YouTube)
“Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness trolled Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife Louise Linton during a live recording of his podcast “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.”
“You know who I really hate?” Page Six reports Van Ness asked the crowd.” “Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary who has this Scottish wife, who’s a nightmare and she has a head full of terrible extensions … She’s kind of like the republican Erika Jayne, but I like Erika Jayne. She’s got like the knock-off bad version of Erika Jayne’s hair.”
Van Ness explained a story from last year about Linton posting a photo on Instagram of herself boarding a private plane wearing designer clothes.
Writer Jennifer Miller commented on the photo “Glad we could pay for your little getaway #deplorable.” Linton fired back calling Miller “adorably out of touch” and asking “Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband?”
“Did you guys see that story? … Should we all get on Instagram and say something weird to her right now? This is really a lesson in two wrongs do make a right and it also shows that hell hath no fury like a gay man who saw a news article that they did not like,” Van Ness said.
Van Ness decided to troll a picture of Linton in the recording studio on her Instagram account.
“You’re not @theprettymess [Jayne’s handle] … We remember,” Van Ness wrote.
Other audience members, including Van Ness’s “Queer Eye” co-stars Tan France and Antoni Porowski, followed suit.

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