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Colton Unrwood, the former football player who found fame on 'The Bachelor' has revealed that he is gay.

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

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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.

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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. ’” 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.

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'BACHELOR' ALUM CASSIE RANDOLPH ON HOW SHE 'FOUND OUT' ABOUT EX COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY

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”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. “Growg up sports, I was tght that gay is wrong and gay is bad and football players are not gay, ” Unrwood said.

'BACHELOR' ALUM COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY: 'I'M THE HAPPIT AND HEALTHIT I'VE EVER BEEN'

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“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.

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.

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

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"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.

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.

'THE BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

In a new terview wh Variety, Bachelor Natn’s Colton Unrwood also revealed he was blackmailed before g out as gay on Good Morng Ameri. * colton gay *

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

AFTER publicly g out as gay, Colton Unrwood unveiled his new boyiend, Jordan C Brown, whom he lled his 'love' a sentimental post on his Instagram Story amid the Comg Out Colton premiere. He me out as gay April.

I'm gay.

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Comg Out Colton is a six-part seri which Colton learns to embrace his homosexualy. The show follows as he opens up about beg gay, shar the news wh fay members, and also tails allegatns ma by ex-girliend Cassie Randolph. 5Colton went pth about his g out and beg gay his new show, Comg Out Colton.

Colton Unrwood publicly g out as gay me as a surprise to his ex-girliend Cassie Randolph. But Randolph eventually revealed how she first disvered the news that Unrwood, 29, is gay after he me out April 2021.

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