--- title: Jonathan Van Ness | TIME description: Jonathan Van Ness is a television personality and hairstylist who stars on the Emmy-nominated Netflix show Queer Eye. He’s also a podcast host, activist, comedian, and author of the 2019 New York Times best-selling memoir Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love. canonical: https://time.com/author/jonathan-van-ness/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/jonathan-van-ness/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jonathan Van Ness ## Jonathan Van Ness Jonathan Van Ness is a television personality and hairstylist who stars on the Emmy-nominated Netflix show _Queer Eye_. He’s also a podcast host, activist, comedian, and author of the 2019 New York _Times_ best-selling memoir _Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love_. ## Jonathan Van Ness *  Aug 15, 2022 ### [Jonathan Van Ness: We Are Still Not Taking Monkeypox Seriously Enough](https://time.com/6206159/jonathan-van-ness-monkeypox-response/) Television personality Jonathan Van Ness argues that the U.S. monkeypox response has been shamefully... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/jonathan-van-ness/","name":"Jonathan Van Ness"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/jonathan-van-ness/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/jonathan-van-ness/"},"name":"Jonathan Van Ness","jobTitle":null,"description":"Jonathan Van Ness is a television personality and hairstylist who stars on the Emmy-nominated Netflix show Queer Eye. He’s also a podcast host, activist, comedian, and author of the 2019 New York Times best-selling memoir Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love.","url":"https://time.com/author/jonathan-van-ness/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```