Former actor and model Antoni Porowski is the self-styled food and wine specialist of Netflix’s Queer Eye – but has found himself at the centre of a culinary conspiracy since the show launched in February 2018.

Why? Well, because he tends to spend each episode making recipes that verge on the remedial: think grilled cheese, guacamole, pasta sauces, two-ingredient salads and the like. As Vulture’s Bowen Yang puts it: “He’s preparing food a child would make when they’re old enough not to need a sitter.”

Of course, one could argue that Antoni – with his boyish good looks and heart-melting smile – has purposefully selected these recipes with his makeover subjects in mind. In simplifying the kitchen experience, he grants them access to a part of their homes in which they have previously been unable to comfortably be themselves. He teaches them that it’s OK to be a beginner, that it’s OK not to know exactly what you’re doing, and that cooking can be fun, quick and easy: it doesn’t involve years and years at culinary school.

More importantly, though, the kitchen (which Antoni describes as his “safe space”) is the perfect setting for his many impromptu therapy sessions – including that emotional and tear-jerking chat with religious community leader Tammye in season two.

That being said, Antoni is well aware that he has unwittingly launched a slew of avocado jokes online. And now, just in time for Halloween, he’s fighting back… via the medium of horror.

Queer Eye’s Antoni has just landed his own horror film on Netflix