Karamo Brown

About

Karamo Karega Brown (born November 2, 1980) is an American television host, reality television personality, author, actor, and activist. Brown began his career in 2004 on the MTV reality show The Real World: Philadelphia. He currently stars as the culture expert in the Netflix series Queer Eye.
In September 2022, Brown began hosting an eponymous talk show titled Karamo for NBCUniversal.

Brown was born in Houston to parents from Jamaica and has three older sisters. He came out as gay at age 14. Brown grew up in Coral Springs, Florida and graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 1999. He graduated from Florida A&M University, a historically black university, and has worked in social services.
In 2007, Brown was notified that he was the father of a ten-year-old boy, Jason, and he received custody of him that year. Brown adopted his son’s half-brother in 2010; he moved to Los Angeles with his two sons in 2011, where they currently reside. In May 2018, Brown became engaged to director Ian Jordan. They split amicably around June 2020. On May 15, 2021, Karamo began dating photographer Carlos Medel. He and Carlos split in early 2025.