Tan France is hitting back at a bombshell report he got Bobby Berk axed from the cast of Netflix s Queer Eye reboot to make way for Jeremiah Brent.

My former colleague getting fired had nothing to do with me trying to get my friend hired, the fashion designer said in a video posted to Instagram Friday. Netflix and the production companies did a full-on casting. I didnt put my friend up for the job. They ended up getting it because they were the best person for the job.

France went on to note that while he feels Brent is going to be incredible on the series, he didnt get them hired by getting rid of somebody else.

And thats all I wanna say on this matter, he wrote in the caption of the video.

France was responding to a Rolling Stone expos published this week that probed the so-called tensions and tumult behind Queer Eye. Much of the report was devoted to hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness alleged rage issues on set. But the outlet also cited three unnamed sources who claimed that France and Antoni Porowski, the series food and wine expert, had engaged in mean-girl antics to get Berk axed from the show.