'The Circle' Star Chris Sapphire Is Ready to Be the First Gay Bachelor

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• COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED
• FANS MAND GAY ‘BACHELOR’ SEASON AFTER COLTON UNRWOOD OUT
• DID THE BACHELOR CONTTANTS KNOW COLTON UNRWOOD WAS GAY DURG FILMG? HANNAH BROWN SPEAKS OUT
• WE’RE READY FOR ‘THE CIRCLE’ STAR CHRIS SAPPHIRE TO BE THE FIRST GAY BACHELOR — AND SO IS HE

COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED

Colton Unrwood, the first star of “The Bachelor” anchise to e out, says he was blackmailed before he announced last month that he is gay. Variety, which has an exclive terview, says Unrwood “secretly vised a spa known for terg to gay clientele.

Unrwood nfirmed to Variety that he has a Netflix seri the works about his g-out journey, wh fellow gay athlete G Kenworthy actg as his ially praised for his cisn to e out, Unrwood, 29, has weathered his fair share of ntroversy, cludg allegatns of appearg as a nttant on “The Bachelorette, ” he was st “Bachelor Paradise” (both 2018), where he had a flg wh fellow nttant Tia Booth. He also received support, cludg om celebri such as Billy Eichner, who had prevly told him durg a gut appearance on “The Bachelor”: “Maybe you’re the first gay Bachelor, and we don’t even know.

“I never want people to thk that I’m g out to change the narrative, or to bsh over and not take rponsibily for my actns, and now that I have this gay life that I don’t have to addrs my past as a straight man, ” Unrwood said. Colton recently me out as gay. Colton recently me out as gay and now has a realy show on Netflix lled, Comg Out Colton.

FANS MAND GAY ‘BACHELOR’ SEASON AFTER COLTON UNRWOOD OUT

As one of the only gay members of Bachelor Natn, 's a big step for Colton to have his own show about g out. Former “Bachelor” nttant Colton Unrwood me out as gay on public televisn.

After Unrwood me out as gay on Good Morng Ameri Wednday, he says his own sexualy had somethg to do wh that.

DID THE BACHELOR CONTTANTS KNOW COLTON UNRWOOD WAS GAY DURG FILMG? HANNAH BROWN SPEAKS OUT

“The tth is, I was a ‘virg Bachelor’ bee I was gay and I didn’t know how to handle . Now, fans are askg for a gay bachelor, a would-be first for the anchise seri that isn’t known for s diversy.

WE’RE READY FOR ‘THE CIRCLE’ STAR CHRIS SAPPHIRE TO BE THE FIRST GAY BACHELOR — AND SO IS HE

This is the perfect time to lnch gay bachelor season PLEASE — alex (@alexisssiew) April 14, 2021.

Gays gettg ready to sign up for the bachelor this morng for Colton. ugh ABC is fely gog to FINALLY do gay bachelor now and ’s gonna be wh someone who sucks and who isn’t a hot lbian:((((. Olympian G Kenworthy will act as Colton’s “gay gui, ” a source scribed to me.

Along wh beg lled a liar by some fellow Bachelor Natn alumni, he and the women who dated him have also had to aga face qutns about whether they knew Unrwood was gay when he was datg dozens of women simultaneoly on The Bachelor. [We weren’t like], ‘No, surely he’s not gay.