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• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• THE BACHELOR STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERLOG INPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCH'GMA' DEALS & STEALS ON FEEL-GOOD FDSCULTURETHE BACHELORAPRIL 14, 2021FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY
• FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD APOLOGIZ TO THE BACHELOR NTTANTS AS HE REVEALS HE'S GAY
• ‘THE BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY ON ‘GMA’
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY
• FORMER "BACHELOR" STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD ANNOUNC HE’S GAY
• 'THE BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• GAY ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS RELATNSHIP WH GOD IS ‘BT ’S EVER BEEN’
• ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD REVEALS HE’S GAY EMOTNAL ‘GMA’ INTERVIEW
• FANS WANT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WH COLTON UNRWOOD, BUT 'S NOT THE RIGHT MOVE. HERE'S WHY

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

The former Bachelor nttant me out as gay April 2021 and has been attached to Brown sce last fall. Unrwood then me out as gay April 2021 an terview wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri, and went on to star on Netflix docu-seri Comg Out Colton, tracg Unrwood's own g out journey and teractns wh other notable gay public figur. He was the first lead of The Bachelor anchise to e out as gay.

THE BACHELOR STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

Related ntent: Former Bachelor Colton Unrwood out as gayStars celebrate newly out Bachelor alum Colton Unrwood: 'You're ee now'Why Comg Out Colton is a major fumble Episo Reps Zach on the season fale of The Bachelor S27 E10 Rep The Bachelor fale rep: Zach go om 'eak-out mo' to pickg a fiancée By Kristen Baldw The Bachelor rep. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe 29-year-old former football player had wrten about qutng his sexualy a memoir, published Shotwell/Invisn, via Richard Shotwell, via Invisn, via Associated PrsColton Unrwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, me out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri.

And I’m gay. “I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay.

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“‘You know, Colt, we’d still love you and support you if you were gay, ’” he relled his mother tellg father was more nontatnal. “He’d pulled up the history of recent Google search, which clud gay porn s and a variety of qutns: ‘Am I gay? How do you know if you’re gay?

)In s 20 years, the anchise has never featured an all-gay st.

"And I'm gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY

Ms Randolph then filed for a rtrag orr agast Mr Unrwood, accg him of stalkg her, but she later requted the police vtigatn be source, Getty ImagImage ptn, In The Bachelor, he chose nttant Cassie RandolphMr Unrwood said he cid to e out after the panmic h, addg that was a time which forced people to "look at themselv the mirror and figure out who they are and what they've been nng om or what they've been puttg off their liv" said he had been aware of his sexualy for a long time, knowg he "jt felt different" om the age of Unrwood said he "learned the Bible that gay is a s" Catholic school. Durg his time playg football, he relled the term "gay" held "a nnotatn of negativy". "I thk there's a lot of thgs, when I look back, I'm like, 'No wonr I held , '" he may also be terted : Media ptn, Kenh Felts has e out as gay at 90 years old...

13:36Former 'Bachelor' Colton Unrwood speaks his tth and out as gayColton Unrwood is ready to live his tth. "When Roberts, who is also openly gay, said she uld "see the joy" and "see the relief" Unrwood, he said he was "emotnal , like such a good, happy, posive way, " and is "the happit and healthit" he's ever been. Unrwood said he went through a "dark and bad" time before feelg like he uld reveal this about himself and his "wake up ll" was feelg like he "would've rather died" than say he's gay.

It took until high school for him to realize he "was more attracted to the boys and the men" than he was the oppose grown up the Catholic church, he remembered he "learned the Bible that gay is a s" Catholic gra school.

FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

And durg his time sports, he remembered people g the word "gay" as a term that held "a nnotatn of negativy. Unrwood said he has grown "closer to God" this revelatn and said he knows some people will qutn how that's even possible for a gay man to say. "I ed to wake up the morng and pray for him to take the gay away.

I am proud to be gay.

Former Bachelor Colton Unrwood is openg up much more about his ntroversial g out — and the upg Netflix realy show about , which is movg ahead spe lls for s 29-year-old realy star, who me out as gay on April 14, now adms that had sexual experienc wh men prr to jog The Bachelor anchise 2018 and then pickg Cassie Randolph 2019. He also said that prr to g out, someone attempted to blackmail him after he vised a gay spa. Unrwood — who said he ed Grr, a well-known gay datg and hookup app, unr an alias 2016 or 2017 — clarified, “When I say ‘hookups, ’ not sex.

COLTON UNRWOOD APOLOGIZ TO THE BACHELOR NTTANTS AS HE REVEALS HE'S GAY

’” the former football player said of his sexual enunters wh men, prevly notg that growg up Catholic the Midwt ma him believe beg gay was a s.

While 's unclear the exact timele, pre- or post-Randolph spl, he secretly vised a gay spa Los Angel last year “jt to look. ”Unrwood, who said he knew he was different at age 6 and gay durg his hman year high school, also spoke about how his nservative upbrgg sred him to his closeted life. He said he had no gay iends growg up Illois, and certaly no out on on his football team.

He relled there beg jt out gay person his town was "the butt of every joke. When his father nonted him after disverg that he viewed gay porn on the puter as an eighth grar, he nied beg gay. Later, when 2005's Brokeback Mounta me out, he sneakily ed a iend's Blockbter rd to rent the film so his fay wouldn't acce him of beg gay.

‘THE BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

“Growg up sports, I was tght that gay is wrong and gay is bad and football players are not gay, ” Unrwood said. “By the time I realized that I was gay, I didn’t want to be gay.

It was easy for me to hi pla sight behd a football mask and huntg and fishg and the thgs that this world tells is ‘mascule’ and ‘manly, '" he said, addg, "I would have done anythg to see a gay football player. Former "Bachelor" star Colton Unrwood revealed that he is gay a taped terview wh "Good Morng Ameri" anchor Rob Roberts that aired Wednday.

And I’m gay, and I me to terms wh that earlier this year, and I’ve been procsg and the next step all of this was sort of lettg people know, " Unrwood, 29, told Roberts. ""I'm proud to be gay, " Unrwood said later the terview.

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY ON ‘GMA’

In an terview wh Entertament Tonight last year, he said that "The Bachelor" helped him realize that he was not gay, after stgglg wh his sexualy.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY

And a book he published 2020, "The First Time: Fdg Myself and Lookg for Love on Realy TV, " he revealed that growg up, people would qutn whether he was gay, sce he was a virg and a football player. The tth is, I was a virg bachelor bee I was gay and I didn't know how to handle , " Unrwood told Roberts. "He said his Catholic upbrgg and athletic life ma him supprs his sexualy, even though he knew he was gay his hman year of high now, Unrwood said he is closer to God than ever before.

"And I know even sayg that now as a gay man, people are gog to be like 'how is that even possible?

'""I ed to wake up the morng and pray for him to take the gay away, " Unrwood explaed. In a Good Morng Ameri terview on Wednday, the former football player turned star of season 23 of The Bachelor told Rob Roberts that he is gay.

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY

I'm gay, and I me to terms wh that earlier this year and have been procsg , " he said.

" In his 2020 memoir The First Time: Fdg Myself and Lookg for Love on Realy TV, Unrwood wrote about alg wh mors that he was gay durg his senr year high school. Later the book he med, "Sometim I wonr if my life would have been much easier if I had been gay.

Former Bachelor star Colton Unrwood has e out as gay an emotnal terview, revealg that he attempted suici while stgglg to e to terms wh his sexualy, and admtg he thought that beg chosen for the ABC datg show was a sign that God had 'ma him straight'.

FORMER "BACHELOR" STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

The 29-year-old ex-NFL player ma the ndid admissn to Good Morng Ameri's Rob Roberts on Wednday, revealg that the forced isolatn durg the panmic forced him to fally 'look at himself the mirror' and e to terms wh his sexualy, before tellg the host: 'I'm gay. Bombshell: Former Bachelor star Colton Unrwood has e out as gay an emotnal terview, revealg that hidg his sexualy left him feelg suicidal Hidn: The 29-year-old ex-NFL player was known as 'the virg Bachelor' when he starred on the show 2019, durg which he named Cassie Randolph has his chosen wner (pictured) Stggle: Colton admted that his stggle wh his sexualy drove him to attempt suici, explag that there was a 'moment LA...

"' Colton opened up about how his Catholic upbrgg ma him supprs his sexualy for years, admtg that he has 'known he was different sce the age of six', and realized he was gay when he was a hman high school - but felt he had to supprs his sexualy bee he'd always been tght was 'a s'. 'I was a hman high school when I knew I was gay and by that time I had already grown up the Catholic church, I [had] gone to Catholic gra school, [and] I had learned the Bible that [beg] gay is a s, ' he said, addg that he was always ma to feel that beg gay was bad bee the label was ed to cricize thgs by many of his football teammat growg up.

'I had ma mistak my sports and my athletic reer and when you make mistak, that play was gay or gay was always affiliated wh a nnotatn of negativy and I thk there's a lot of thgs when I look back I'm like no wonr I held , ' he add that he is now the 'happit and healthit' he has ever been after fully embracg his sexualy, admtg that was somethg he 'never thought he was gog to share'. The Illois native has prevly spoken about his past stggl surroundg his own sexual inty and how he has prevly qutned his his memoir The First Time: Fdg Myself and Lookg for Love on Realy TV, Unrwood opens up about how he has the past qutned whether he is tails a particular experience high school that he battled wh throughout his life, which he was 'super secure' and 'thought he was gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

' Battle: Colton (pictured high school) said that he has known he was gay sce he was a hman, but that his Catholic upbrgg ma him thk that beg gay 'was a s' Negative: The former NFL player (seen a preason game for the San Diego Chargers) said that 'gay' was often ed as an sult by his teammat Love: Colton said that his father Stt was credibly supportive when he me out, revealg his dad asked him, 'How n I help you? 'I thought, maybe I am gay. 'Unrwood ntued to say that he would search 'Am I gay?

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD ANNOUNC HE’S GAY

'Durg his stt on The Bachelor, Unrwood was still plagued by gay mors. 'Even while my season was airg, I battled the gay [mors]' he said.

'They’d say, "he's gay, he’s hidg . Colton Unrwood, the former football tight end who found fame on “The Bachelor” has revealed that he is gay. “And I’m gay.

'THE BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

Colton Unrwood is gay.

GAY ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS RELATNSHIP WH GOD IS ‘BT ’S EVER BEEN’

“Overall the reason why now is bee I got to a place where … I would’ve rather died than say I’m gay, ” he ntued. I'm Gay. Tellg the world he's gay.

‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD REVEALS HE’S GAY EMOTNAL ‘GMA’ INTERVIEW

And I'm gay. I would have rather died than say I'm gay and I thk that was sort of my wake-up ll.

Also worth notg -- Colton stated his March 2020 memoir, "The First Time, " his time on "The Bachelor" actually helped him realize he WASN'T gay.

The bulli said he was gay, and he says he believed . Former 'Bachelor' star says he is gay. Colton Unrwood, who starred as "The Bachelor" 2019, says he is gay an terview wh ABC's "Good Morng Ameri.

FANS WANT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WH COLTON UNRWOOD, BUT 'S NOT THE RIGHT MOVE. HERE'S WHY

Former "Bachelor" star and NFL player Colton Unrwood has e out as gay.

The 29-year-old revealed he was gay publicly for the first time durg an terview wh "Good Morng Ameri" anchor Rob Roberts that aired on Wednday.