Jonathan Van Ness

Jonathan Van Ness is an American hairdresser, television personality, podcaster, and figure skater born in Quincy, Illinois on March 28, 1987. He is best known for the web series parody Gay of Thrones and as the grooming expert on the Netflix series Queer Eye. He trained at the beauty school Aveda Institute in Minneapolis and worked in Arizona for 5 years. In 2009 he moved to Los Angeles and got a job as a personal assistant at Sally Hershberger Salon. He now works at Stile Salon and MoJo Hair. He started hosting the podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness in 2015. In 2018 he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for his web series Gay of Thrones. He has also been on the shows I Love the 2000s, Last Will and Testicle, Nailed It! and Lip Sync Battle.