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• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• 'BACHELOR' ALUM COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS HE WAS 'BLACKMAILED' BEFORE G OUT AS GAY
• ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY 'BACHELOR': A ROSE WH A HOSE
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY, CHRIS HARRISON IS 'VERY PROUD' OF HIM
• FANS WANT A GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WH COLTON UNRWOOD, BUT 'S NOT THE RIGHT MOVE. HERE'S WHY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR, OUT AS GAY
• ‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY
• FORMER JAZZMAN RUDY GAY HAS INTERT FROM ‘SEVERAL’ COMPETIVE TEAMS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FORMER "BACHELOR" STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M THE HAPPIT AND HEALTHIT I’VE EVER BEEN’

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

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS 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' ALUM COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS HE WAS 'BLACKMAILED' BEFORE G OUT AS GAY

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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.

‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD 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.

GAY 'BACHELOR': A ROSE WH A HOSE

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. Unrwood game out as gay on "GMA" a month after Colton Unrwood publicly me out as gay an terview wh "Good Morng Ameri, " he said that he did so, part, bee he was "blackmailed.

"Unrwood told the outlet he received an anonymo email om someone claimg to have nu photos of him at a Los Angel spa known for s gay clientele, which he had recently vised.

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

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

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

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.

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

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]. They’d say, ‘he’s gay, he’s hidg .

‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE

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. Gay 'Bachelor'. We've learned the Logo work is shootg a gay 'bachelor' show, and the prize is Robert Sepulveda Jr.

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR SAYS HE IS GAY

McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

FORMER JAZZMAN RUDY GAY HAS INTERT FROM ‘SEVERAL’ COMPETIVE TEAMS

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.

FORMER "BACHELOR" STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport. McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry.

FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M THE HAPPIT AND HEALTHIT I’VE EVER BEEN’

As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “I was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right?

That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.