The Oath Keepers’ attorney made the Queer Eye loft her virtual background in court
The Fab Five received an unexpected feature at the Jan. 6 hearings on Tuesday when Kellye SoRelle joined via Zoom
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On Tuesday, Queer Eye was presented with its most challenging, and unexpected, makeover yet. The attorney for the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia who had a heavy hand in the January 6 insurrection, joined court proceedings virtually in front of a green-screened version of the Fab Five’s chic yet modern loft kitchen. Forget the time the series had a cop “pretend” to pull over Karamo in a jarringly inappropriate moment of commentary on police brutality—unwittingly spicing up the virtual feng shui of an insurrection attorney has to take the cake as Queer Eye’s strangest political moment yet.
The attorney, Kellye SoRelle, presented herself before a specific image of the Fab Five’s Kansas City home base from season 3. Bobby Berk shared the photo to his website in 2019 as part of a kitchen tour. At the time, Berk gushed: “This space was a place where we could host our heroes and show them a good time.” Given the circumstances, perhaps he shouldn’t be held to that statement?
Hearings for the events of January 6 have been in full swing for weeks. The court has conducted over 20 hours of public hearings featuring more than a dozen witnesses and even more depositions (although SoRelle is the first to appear for her interview in such a, well, slay manner.) After earlier hearings examined Donald Trump’s role in the insurrection (conclusion: he was stoked about it), Tuesday’s discussions focused in on domestic extremist groups like the Oath Keepers who organized to flood the capital.
Although it seems like a floral button-down shirt and lemony summer dip isn’t quite enough to make over an insurrection truther, the Fab Five can’t know until they try, right? Here’s hoping a January 6 episode is incoming—this writer wouldn’t mind seeing Berk’s vision for a QAnon end-times bunker that’s still perfect for entertaining.
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Kel-yay Soh-relly?
She always loved the charm of Olde Gift Shoppes, so she used the extra “e” in her name!
Um…no photo? You could have least quote the twitter in the article so the tweet and the photo shows up.
Yeah nah…I think the fancy-pants guys in their…fancy pants is…fancier.
It’s hyperlinked under ‘loft’ in the article:
So strange. Why would a lawyer choose a random (I’m assuming she thought it was random) kitchen as her background? Why wouldn’t she choose something officey and professional?
Because the Oath Keepers probably don’t hire the ‘best’ legal representation.
That’s a good point, as probably your top lawyers aren’t going to want to put their name on this. Obviously lawyers are used to having unpopular clients, but it’s a step beyond to represent an organization who brags about having committed treason.
Better Call Fancy Saul
She is often tasked with making the Oath Keepers seem less militant and violent. It is likely strategy for them to a) have a female attorney and b) have her appear in a casual setting like a kitchen rather than something official looking like a law office.
That was my thought as well. “See, we’re not a bunch of batshit paramilitary goons–here’s our bug-eyed lawyer in front of what looks like Hannibal Lecter’s kitchen!”
Several members of the c-suite at my job used the perpetually-curling wave video as their background from the beginning of the pandemic on. I’ve got another manager whose background is a very l0w-res space photo. And then there’s this guy:
Lawyer cat is the gift that keeps on giving.
“I’m not a cat.”
Let the record reflect that according to this video it was a cat who just said “I’m not a cat.”
Because when what’s really behind you is the back seat of your car, you’ll take what you can get.She works out of her car, is what I’m saying.
That headline took me six reads to fully piece together. I’m not even blaming the writing.
I still didn’t get it until I read the comments. Thank you guys.
I kept trying to interpret “loft” as a verb—as in Ms. SoRelle was enlisting the Queer Eye people to increase the height of her Zoom background
This is a story about something visual. So…sorry, but:
Pics or it didn’t happen.
A different tweet but with a better image than the source:
The easiest way to read an AV Club article is to click on the tiny number hyperlink next to the comments. This will send you straight down here without having to read the incomprehensible mess that the site has turned into.
Usually someone uploads a better version of whatever the headline mentions instead of some random Getty photo.
It immediately caught my eye that she was using a digital background, but it certainly didn’t occur to me that it was from Queer Eye. This is the biggest scandal of the whole committee saga!