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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Karen Rockett

Queer Eye's Tan France was beaten up and left for dead in race hate gang attack

TV star Tan France returned to Britain after 15 years but pulled out of a trip to his home town – haunted by race hate he endured as a kid.

The stylist and presenter on Netflix reality show Queer Eye was heading up the M1 to Doncaster, South Yorks, when the painful memories hit home.

He had been determined to see his old stomping ground for a documentary on colourism and skin bleaching.

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