Tim Gunn hosted 16 seasons of the fashion reality TV show, and he tells PEOPLE exclusively that he's not returning

Freeform, Disney+, and Hulu didn’t make it work for Tim Gunn to return to the Project Runway revival alongside Heidi Klum. In a new interview, Gunn revealed he was not asked back to mentor the designers in the competition reality series.

Tim Gunn—who co-hosted Project Runway with Heidi Klum from 2004 to 2017—said he "wasn't asked" back to the upcoming season 21 revival on Freeform, Disney+ and Hulu: "Kind of humiliated."

The TV personality admitted that he was "initially devastated," but has since had a change of heart about the situation.