Is Colton Unrwood gay? | The US Sun

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• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’
• ‘GMA’ ANCHOR ROB ROBERTS PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG SHE’S GAY
• ROB ROBERTS GETS EMOTNAL OVER ‘GOOD MORNG AMERI’S’ GAY CONVERSN CAMPS SEGMENT, THANKS HER PARENTS FOR SUPPORT
• ROB ROBERTS OF 'GOOD MORNG AMERI' OUT AS GAY, LKED TO AMBER LAIGN
• OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY 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 FOR SUMMER FUNCULTURETHE BACHELORAPRIL 14, 2021FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY ON 'GMA'
• COLTON UNRWOOD REVEALS HIS TTH ON 'GOOD MORNG AMERI': 'I'M GAY'
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SHE WENT ON TO BEE A SPORTS REPORTER AND ANCHOR FOR A LOL TV STATN MISSISSIPPI. AT AGE 29, ROBERTS BEGAN HOSTG ESPN'S SPORTSCENTER AND, NOT LONG AFTER, APPEARG AS A GUT REPORTER ON GOOD MORNG AMERI. IN 2005, SHE WAS HIRED AS A FULL-TIME -ANCHOR OF THE MORNG NEWS PROGRAM. IN AUGT 2012, ROBERTS TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE OM GOOD MORNG AMERI ORR TO UNRGO TREATMENT FOR A RARE BLOOD DISORR THAT SHE NTRACTED AFTER UNRGOG CHEMOTHERAPY FOR BREAST NCER. SHE RETURNED TO THE SHOW ON FEBARY 20, 2013. IN EARLY 2014, ROBERTS OFFICIALLY ME OUT AS A GAY WOMAN.EARLY LIFEROB RENé ROBERTS WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 23, 1960, TKEGEE, ALABAMA AND GREW UP PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI. THE YOUNGT OF FOUR SIBLGS AND THE DGHTER OF A TKEGEE AIRMEN PILOT, ROBERTS SPENT HER CHILDHOOD CULTIVATG ATHLETIC AND AMIC SUCCS, GRADUATG AS HER HIGH SCHOOL'S SALUTATORIAN. HER SISTER, SALLY-ANN ROBERTS, BEME A LOL NEWS ANCHOR, AND ROB FOLLOWED HER FOOTSTEPS, EARNG A JOURNALISM SCHOLARSHIP AND A GREE MUNITNS OM SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSY.EARLY BROADST CAREERIMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATG OM LLEGE, ROBERTS ED HER UNIQUE BATN OF ATHLETIC TALENT AND JOURNALISTIC SKILL TO BEE A SPORTS REPORTER AND ANCHOR FOR A LOL TV STATN MISSISSIPPI. SHE PROGRSED AND SUCCEED, MOVG EVERY YEAR OR TWO TO A LARGER CY THE SOUTH — OM HATTIBURG TO BILOXI TO NASHVILLE AND THEN ATLANTA — AS HER POPULARY AND EXPERIENCE GREW.ESPN TO 'GOOD MORNG AMERI'AT AGE 29, ROBERTS WAS HIRED BY ESPN, WHERE SHE HOSTED THE WORK'S FLAGSHIP NEWS PROGRAM, SPORTSCENTER. AROUND THIS SAME TIME, SHE BEGAN MAKG APPEARANC AS A GUT REPORTER ON GOOD MORNG AMERI, A SHOW BROADST BY ABC, A SISTER WORK OF ESPN (BOTH WORKS ARE OWNED BY THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY).IN 2005, AFTER YEARS OF NTRIBUTG TO BOTH ESPN AND GOOD MORNG AMERI, ABC HIRED ROBERTS AS A FULL-TIME -ANCHOR OF THE MORNG NEWS PROGRAM. WHEN DIANE SAWYER, THEN AN ANCHOR ON GOOD MORNG AMERI, WAS NAMED ANCHOR OF ABC WORLD NEWS, THE WORK'S NIGHTTIME NEWS PROGRAM, ROBERTS AND {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}GEE STEPHANOPOULOS SERVED AS -ANCHORS. TOGETHER, THE TWO HELPED LEAD THE SHOW TO THE TOP OF THE PETIVE MORNG SHOW RATGS, BEATG NBC'S TODAY SHOW, WHICH HAD HELD THE NO. 1 SPOT FOR MORE THAN A .CANCER AND BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTIN AUGT 2012, ROBERTS TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE OM GOOD MORNG AMERI ORR TO UNRGO TREATMENT FOR A RARE BLOOD DISORR THAT SHE NTRACTED AS A PLITN OF THE CHEMOTHERAPY SHE RECEIVED FOR BREAST NCER 2007. 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ROBERTS HERSELF DID NOT RELY ON THE REGISTRY, BUT RATHER ON HER SISTER, SALLY-ANN, WHO DOCTORS EMED AN EXCELLENT MATCH. NOHELS, ROBERTS ADVOTED FOR BONE MARROW DONATN VIA BE THE MATCH AND ENURAGED VIEWERS TO REGISTER.RETURN TO 'GMA'ON FEBARY 20, 2013, ROBERTS MA HER FIRST APPEARANCE ON GOOD MORNG AMERI SCE SHE HAD BEGUN TREATMENT. THE WORLD WNSED HER EMOTNAL RETURN AND HAPPY RNN WH THE GOOD MORNG AMERI STAFF. ROBERTS HELPED GOOD MORNG AMERI W S BT RATGS NUMBERS SCE THE MORNG AFTER THE PRINTIAL ELECTN NOVEMBER 2012, AS 6.1 LN VIEWERS TUNED TO SEE HER RETURN TO THE AIR. "I HAVE BEEN WAG 174 DAYS TO SAY THIS: GOOD MORNG, AMERI!" SHE SAID DURG THE SEGMENT.ROBERTS REMAS A POPULAR -HOST ON THE SHOW, ALONGSI STEPHANOPOULOS AND FORMER FOOTBALL STAR MICHAEL STRAHAN.BOOKS, AWARDS AND PERSONALTHE NEWS ANCHOR HAS THORED MULTIPLE BOOKS, CLUDG FROM THE HEART: 7 RUL TO LIVE BY AND EVERYBODY’S GOT SOMETHG.FOLLOWG HER REVERY, ROBERTS WAS HONORED AT THE 2013 ESPYS WH THE PRTIG ARTHUR ASHE COURAGE AWARD, WHICH WAS PRENTED BY BASKETBALL STAR LEBRON JAM. ADDNALLY, SHE RECEIVED THE WALTER CRONKE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE JOURNALISM 2014 AND WAS DUCTED TO THE SPORTS BROADSTG HALL OF FAME 2016.IN EARLY JANUARY 2014, ROBERTS OFFICIALLY ME OUT AS A GAY WOMAN ON GOOD MORNG AMERI. SHE HADN'T PUBLICLY DISCSED HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN PRR TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. THE PUBLIC ALSO GOT TO SEE A PHOTO OF ROBERTS'S GIRLIEND, AMBER LAIGN, ON THE SHOW, FOLLOWG THE NEWS ANCHOR'S {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
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• ROB ROBERTS REVEALS SHE IS GAY THANK-YOU NOTE TO GMA FANS
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY, CHRIS HARRISON IS 'VERY PROUD' OF HIM
• ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD REVEALS HE’S GAY EMOTNAL ‘GMA’ INTERVIEW
• IS COLTON UNRWOOD GAY?

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’

Former 'Bachelor' star says he is gay. Colton Unrwood told Rob Roberts on “Good Morng Ameri” that he is gay an terview that aired Wednday morng.

‘GMA’ ANCHOR ROB ROBERTS PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDG SHE’S GAY

I’m gay. “Good Morng Ameri” anchor Rob Roberts ed a Facebook post to acknowledge what iends and -workers have long known: She’s gay. Roberts and Laign attend the 2014 Rpect Awards, held by the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network, New York Cy.

Savannah Chrisley: I ‘knew’ Colton Unrwood was gay on 2017 date. Rob Roberts has a very personal nnectn to helpg Colton Unrwood reveal that he is gay. Roberts revealed publicly 2013 that she is gay.

ROB ROBERTS GETS EMOTNAL OVER ‘GOOD MORNG AMERI’S’ GAY CONVERSN CAMPS SEGMENT, THANKS HER PARENTS FOR SUPPORT

“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, I ed to pray for Him to change me, ” Unrwood said. “I shared wh him somethg that my mother said when I told her about my sexualy, that I’m gay, and she said, ‘God lov you bee of who He is not bee of anythg you do or don’t do.

ROB ROBERTS OF 'GOOD MORNG AMERI' OUT AS GAY, LKED TO AMBER LAIGN

“And that is somethg a lot of Christian gays stggle wh. While she and Roberts have been together sce 2005, Roberts didn't e out as a gay woman until December 2013, when she shared an end-of-year Facebook post.

"When you grow up and you know that you’re gay — pecially olr — you thk that's never gog to happen. 13:36Former 'Bachelor' Colton Unrwood speaks his tth and out as gayColton Unrwood is ready to get "eply personal" Wednday on "Good Morng Ameri. Rob Roberts beme emotnal durg a Good Morng Ameri segment about unrground gay nversn mps on Friday, March 10.

The gay news anchor, 56, thanked her late parents, who were eply relig, for beg supportive when she first me out.

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“I’m so grateful, pecially after seeg this, how supportive they were of me as a gay woman, and my fay and iends, and I’ll never fet my mother sayg, ‘God lov you bee of who He is, not bee of anythg you do or don’t do. "Good Morng Ameri" -anchor Rob Roberts has e out publicly as gay. " Her "GMA" lleague, weather forester Sam Champn, who left the show early this month to bee The Weather Channel's managg edor, publicly me out as gay October 2012.

13:36Former 'Bachelor' Colton Unrwood speaks his tth and out as gayColton Unrwood is ready to live his tth. "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. 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.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY ON 'GMA'

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.

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

I am proud to be gay. Roberts asked him what gave him the urage to speak his tth, and Unrwood said that he got to a dark place where he actually "would have rather died, than say I was gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD REVEALS HIS TTH ON 'GOOD MORNG AMERI': 'I'M GAY'

Rob Roberts reflected on her own g out story after Colton Unrwood revealed to her that he is gay durg an emotnal terview on Good Morng Ameri on former Bachelor star and ex-NFL player sat down wh Rob to reveal the panmic had ma him e to terms wh his sexualy, before tellg her: "I'm gay" Who is Rob Roberts' partner Amber Laign? Everythg you need to know about the upleAfter the terview aired, Rob shared a msage that her late mother had told her after she me Rob Roberts clar love for girliend Amber Speakg to her -stars, Rob said: "I shared wh [Colton] somethg that my mother said when I told her about my sexualy, that I'm gay, and she said, 'God lov you bee of who he is, not bee of anythg you do or don't do.

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SHE WENT ON TO BEE A SPORTS REPORTER AND ANCHOR FOR A LOL TV STATN MISSISSIPPI. AT AGE 29, ROBERTS BEGAN HOSTG ESPN'S SPORTSCENTER AND, NOT LONG AFTER, APPEARG AS A GUT REPORTER ON GOOD MORNG AMERI. IN 2005, SHE WAS HIRED AS A FULL-TIME -ANCHOR OF THE MORNG NEWS PROGRAM. IN AUGT 2012, ROBERTS TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE OM GOOD MORNG AMERI ORR TO UNRGO TREATMENT FOR A RARE BLOOD DISORR THAT SHE NTRACTED AFTER UNRGOG CHEMOTHERAPY FOR BREAST NCER. SHE RETURNED TO THE SHOW ON FEBARY 20, 2013. IN EARLY 2014, ROBERTS OFFICIALLY ME OUT AS A GAY WOMAN.EARLY LIFEROB RENé ROBERTS WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 23, 1960, TKEGEE, ALABAMA AND GREW UP PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI. THE YOUNGT OF FOUR SIBLGS AND THE DGHTER OF A TKEGEE AIRMEN PILOT, ROBERTS SPENT HER CHILDHOOD CULTIVATG ATHLETIC AND AMIC SUCCS, GRADUATG AS HER HIGH SCHOOL'S SALUTATORIAN. HER SISTER, SALLY-ANN ROBERTS, BEME A LOL NEWS ANCHOR, AND ROB FOLLOWED HER FOOTSTEPS, EARNG A JOURNALISM SCHOLARSHIP AND A GREE MUNITNS OM SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSY.EARLY BROADST CAREERIMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATG OM LLEGE, ROBERTS ED HER UNIQUE BATN OF ATHLETIC TALENT AND JOURNALISTIC SKILL TO BEE A SPORTS REPORTER AND ANCHOR FOR A LOL TV STATN MISSISSIPPI. SHE PROGRSED AND SUCCEED, MOVG EVERY YEAR OR TWO TO A LARGER CY THE SOUTH — OM HATTIBURG TO BILOXI TO NASHVILLE AND THEN ATLANTA — AS HER POPULARY AND EXPERIENCE GREW.ESPN TO 'GOOD MORNG AMERI'AT AGE 29, ROBERTS WAS HIRED BY ESPN, WHERE SHE HOSTED THE WORK'S FLAGSHIP NEWS PROGRAM, SPORTSCENTER. AROUND THIS SAME TIME, SHE BEGAN MAKG APPEARANC AS A GUT REPORTER ON GOOD MORNG AMERI, A SHOW BROADST BY ABC, A SISTER WORK OF ESPN (BOTH WORKS ARE OWNED BY THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY).IN 2005, AFTER YEARS OF NTRIBUTG TO BOTH ESPN AND GOOD MORNG AMERI, ABC HIRED ROBERTS AS A FULL-TIME -ANCHOR OF THE MORNG NEWS PROGRAM. 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'"Rob publicly addrsed her sexualy back 2013, revealg that she is gay after thankg her "long time girliend" a post to mark 100 days sce her bone marrow transplant durg her battle wh myelodysplastic said at the time: "I am grateful to God, my doctors and nurs for my rtored good health.

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY IN ‘GMA’ INTERVIEW

Unrwood revealed he is gay to Rob on GMA"Your grace ught my eye right away and the ease of the eveng ntued to flow through dner. “And I’m gay. “I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay.

And I uldn’t procs and I uldn’t put my fger on what was until high school, my hman year, when I knew I was gay, ” he elaborated.

I had learned the Bible that [beg] gay is a ‘s.

ROB ROBERTS REVEALS SHE IS GAY THANK-YOU NOTE TO GMA FANS

Colton said that one reason he was once fearful to tell iends and fay he was gay is bee of the ndng he received throughout his football reer. “I had ma mistak my sports and athletic reer and when I’d make mistak, that play was ‘gay, ’” said the former athlete, who played football high school and llege before stts on several NFL practice squads.

“‘Gay’ was always affiliated wh a nnotatn of negativy and I thk there’s a lot of thgs, when I look back, no wonr I held . In early 2014, Roberts officially me out as a gay LifeRob René Roberts was born on November 23, 1960, Tkegee, Alabama and grew up Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Addnally, she received the Walter Cronke Award for Excellence Journalism 2014 and was ducted to the Sports Broadstg Hall of Fame early January 2014, Roberts officially me out as a gay woman on Good Morng Ameri. Colton Unrwood, the 2019 star of ABC’s The Bachelor heavily promoted durg the season for his proclaimed virgy, has e out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri. “I’m gay.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY, CHRIS HARRISON IS 'VERY PROUD' OF HIM

JUST IN: Former “Bachelor” star @Colton Unrwood speaks his tth and out to @robroberts: “I’m gay.

Former "Bachelor" star Colton Unrwood has e out as gay. ”In his 2020 memoir "The First Time: Fdg Myself and Lookg for Love on Realy TV" (a cheeky reference to Unrwood's much-discsed virgy throughout his appearanc on "The Bachelorette, " "Bachelor Paradise" and then "The Bachelor"), Unrwood explored stanc of self-disvery throughout his life, om re-learng his inty after his football reer to qutng his one pot the book, he wonred if his hancy to sleep wh his high school girliend meant he was gay. "Maybe (if I had been gay) would have helped me to know myself better and sooner.

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

" Reflectg on his past to "GMA, " Unrwood said growg up the Catholic church and playg football (where a bad play would sometim be dubbed "gay" as a way of sultg the player) ma difficult for him to accept who he was, though he had an klg that he was different by the time he was 6 years were tim durg his self-disvery that he fell to a "dark" place and sometim grappled wh suicidal thoughts, he add. Former “Bachelor” star Colton Unrwood sat down wh Rob Roberts on April 14 for a eply personal terview, revealg that he is gay. For me, I’ve ran om myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay.

I would rather have died than say ‘I’m gay, ’ and I thk that was sort of my wake up ll. The tth is I was the ‘Virg Bachelor’ bee I was gay, and I didn’t know how to handle .

In an terview last year, he said that “The Bachelor” helped him realize that he was not gay, after stgglg wh his sexualy. 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. ’ I’ve known that I’ve been different sce the age of six, and I uldn’t procs and put my fger on until high school, my hman year, when I knew I was gay.

IS COLTON UNRWOOD GAY?

And by that time I had already grown up the Catholic church, I have gone to Catholic gra school, I learned the Bible that gay is a s. I had ma mistak my sports and my athletic reer, and when you make mistak, ‘that play was gay’ or that was a bad… gay was always affiliated wh a nnotatn of negativy, and I thk there’s a lot of thgs when I look back, like, ‘No wonr I held .

FORMER Bachelor Colton Unrwood revealed that he was gay an terview wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri on April 14, 2021. Is Colton Unrwood gay?