{"id":264405,"date":"2018-12-31T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1000282"},"modified":"2018-12-31T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:15:00","slug":"queer-eye-star-jonathan-van-ness-and-wilco-froneman-break-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/queer-eye-star-jonathan-van-ness-and-wilco-froneman-break-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Eye Star Jonathan Van Ness and Wilco Froneman Break Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181131\/rs_600x600-181231051710-600.jonathan-van-ness-boyfriend.123118.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"text-1\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.001657000829\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.284175642088\">\n<p>Remember, <strong>Jonathan Van Ness<\/strong>: &#8220;You&#8217;re strong. You&#8217;re a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_clarkson\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a><\/strong> song. You got this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Queer Eye<\/em> star announced via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsB8YN_n-NF\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> Sunday that he and rugby player <strong>Wilco<\/strong> <strong>Froneman<\/strong> have broken up. Quoting his friend <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s post-breakup anthem &#8220;thank u, next,&#8221; Van Ness wrote in his caption, &#8220;She taught me love, she taught me patience, how she handles pain, that s&#8211;ts amazing. I&#8217;ve loved and I&#8217;ve lost but that&#8217;s not what I see because look what I found ain&#8217;t no need for searching.&#8217; Rounding out my 2018 with a very gorg THANK U NEXT. #selflove.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van Ness later amended his caption and turned off the comments, telling his 2.7 million followers, &#8220;Please don&#8217;t go in on Wilco, he doesn&#8217;t need the anger &amp; I don&#8217;t want to see him suffer so just know I&#8217;m all good &amp; sometimes people break up the love \u2014 Love you all so much.&#8221; He went on to defend his ex a final time in his Instagram Stories. &#8220;I should&#8217;ve sat with myself a bit longer before I posted my most recent post,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Wilco is a good person &amp; sometimes things don&#8217;t work out. Please don&#8217;t attack him on his page. Just let us move on, heal and enjoy your gorgeous New Year&#8217;s celebration. Your girl Jonathan is just fine. Biggest hug.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.137236084453\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.564299424184\">\n<p>Froneman, for his part, has yet to publicly address their split.<\/p>\n<p>Van Ness and Froneman made their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/969275\/queer-eye-s-jonathan-van-ness-dating-wilco-froneman-5-things-to-know-about-him\" target=\"_blank\">public debut<\/a> just before the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/2018_emmys\">2018 Emmys<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The former couple \u00a0began dating after they met at a Fourth of July party earlier this year. &#8220;I kind of thought we had more, like, BFF synergy when we very first met,&#8221; Van Ness told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/979928\/jonathan-van-ness-reveals-he-almost-friend-zoned-his-boyfriend-when-they-first-met\" target=\"_blank\">E! News<\/a>&#8216; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/giuliana_rancic\">Giuliana Rancic<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;And then very quickly, I was like, &#8216;<em>Oh<\/em>.&#8217; It&#8217;s just &#8217;cause his personality shines so bright that it took me a minute to realize he was a 6-foot-7, muscle-bound rugby player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000282\/queer-eye-star-jonathan-van-ness-and-wilco-froneman-break-up?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, Jonathan Van Ness: &#8220;You&#8217;re strong. You&#8217;re a Kelly Clarkson song. You got this.&#8221; The Queer Eye star announced via Instagram Sunday that he and rugby player Wilco Froneman have broken up. Quoting his friend Ariana Grande&#8216;s post-breakup anthem &#8220;thank u, next,&#8221; Van Ness wrote in his caption, &#8220;She taught me love, she taught me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 05:30:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}