Former "Bachelor" star Colton Unrwood out as gay - CBS News

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• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• ‘BACHELOR’ FANS MAND GAY SEASON AMID COLTON UNRWOOD’S G OUT
• ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY
• IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY
• A GAY BACHELOR PARTY PRIMER TO PLAN AN AWOME PARTY
• FORMER "BACHELOR" STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

Colton Unrwood is ready to live his former "Bachelor" star me out as gay an exclive terview wh Rob Roberts on "Good Morng Ameri" on Wednday. "And I'm gay. "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.

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

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. 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.

‘BACHELOR’ FANS MAND GAY SEASON AMID COLTON UNRWOOD’S G OUT

"I ed to wake up the morng and pray for him to take the gay away. I am proud to be gay.

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.

“‘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?

‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY

)In s 20 years, the anchise has never featured an all-gay st. Could there be a gay season of “The Bachelor? “Ok let’s see a gay Bachelor season, ” wrote one Twter er rponse to the news.

“So now, obvly, do a long overdue gay Bachelor season, ” posted another. “Now give the season we serve wh a gay bachelor please, ” said @anahigu.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY

I see a glimmer of hope for the gay Bachelor season that we all so sperately serve. To everyone sayg he should get another season and be the first gay bachelor- are you fettg how he treated Cassie?? But at least one supporter saw the news g — and suggted there’s already been a season of “Gay Bachelor.

” In a clip rurfaced Wednday, “Billy on the Street” host Billy Eichner suggted that Unrwood was the first gay Bachelor whout even knowg .

The former Bachelor star, who led the 2019 season of the ABC realy datg anchise, said on Good Morng Ameri that he is gay.

IT’S TIME FOR AN ACTUALLY GAY SEASON OF THE BACHELOR ALREADY

And, I’m gay, ” he said durg an exclive s-down wh Rob Roberts for ABC News’ GMA. After gettg to a place his life that he scribed as “dark” and “bad, ” he relled how at one pot he felt, “I would have rather died than said, ‘I’m gay, ’ and I thk that was my wake-up ll.

He relled how he thanked God after his announcement as star for “makg him straight, ” sharg, “I’ve known that I’ve been different sce the age of 6, and I uldn’t procs and I uldn’t put my fger on what was until [my hman year of high school] when I knew I was gay. ” Growg up the Catholic church, he said, “I learned the Bible that gay is a s” and he relled how, as an athlete, the word “gay” was ed a negative nnotatn.

JUST IN: Former “Bachelor” star @Colton Unrwood speaks his tth and out to @robroberts: “I’m gay. “I thought, maybe I am gay. He ntued, “Even while my season was airg, I battled the gay [mors].

A GAY BACHELOR PARTY PRIMER TO PLAN AN AWOME PARTY

They’d say, ‘he’s gay, he’s hidg . The tth is I was ‘the virg Bachelor’ bee I was gay, and I didn’t know how to handle that. Sce then, he told Roberts that he has settled down Denver, closer to his fay, and that he has grown closer to God: “I ed to wake up the morng and pray for him to take the gay away.

I'm Gay. Tellg the world he's gay. And I'm gay.

FORMER "BACHELOR" STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS 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 .