A trailer has dropped for Colton Underwood’s new reality series in which he charts his coming-out story. The show, Coming Out Colton premieres this week on Netflix. Underwood shared a 2-minute teaser clip to his social media.
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In it, Underwood talks about fighting against his feelings and not wanting to be gay.
He’s seen talking with Olympic athlete Gus Kenworthy and telling him, “I never thought I’d come out. I thought I was gonna die with this secret.”
Underwood goes on to say, “The reason I’m coming out is I’m ashamed and sort of mortified by what got me into this position in the first place.”
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The former Bachelor star revealed he’s gay in an interview in April with Good Morning America. A month later, in an interview with Variety, Underwood revealed that he’d partly been prompted to speak to the press about his sexuality after a threat of blackmail. He’d gone to a men’s spa in Los Angeles and someone told him they had naked photos of him that they would leak to the media.
Underwood’s coming out prompted a backlash. It was quickly revealed he was filming a documentary series. To some, this felt like he was monetizing his coming out process.
Others pointed to his participation on The Bachelor franchise of shows, in which he competed for the attention of a range of women and his subsequent relationship with Cassie Randolph.
She took out a restraining order against Underwood in September 2020, alleging he stalked her. The order was dropped a couple of months later after the two reached an agreement addressing Randolph’s concerns.
In yesterday’s trailer, Underwood says, “I put a poor girl through hell of my own insecurities.”
His father agrees, saying, “Cassie filed a restraining order against you. You went off the rails.”
Another person later in the clip, “What you put her through was bullshit,” although it’s not clear if this is a reference to Cassie.
Underwood says that by staying in the closet, “I was starting to hurt other people outside of just myself.”
The trailer goes on to tease the moment Underwood turns to his dad and tells him, “I’m gay.”
Having come out, Underwood seems unsure how to live life as an out gay man or how to connect with someone else: “I don’t know what to do with my hands. Am I looking at someone too long?”
A drag queen jokes he’s still a “gay in training,” before Kenworthy again advises him to just be himself.
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He’s also shown talking with out football player Michael Sam about being out in sport (Underwood is a former football player).
Coming Out Colton will have six episodes and will premiere this Friday (Dec. 3).
dhmonarch89
Considering how much your readers dislike this guy- his publicity team must be paying you a fortune to continually keep shoving him down our throats!
Prax07
Unless this guy is co-starring in a Colby Keller Onlyfans video where he gets the daylights banged outta him then I don’t care what he’s doing or has to say. D-list reality show “celebrities” aren’t in my care-about list.
Donston
I’ve moved past the “no one gives a shit about him” and “fvck him” stage. Ultimately, everyone’s journey with being “out”, their sexual dimensions, their self-comfort, their insecurities, their mental health, where they are in overall spectrum, love is different. And we shouldn’t look to directly compare and contrast. While these “reality stars” and clout-chasers are gonna do what they’re gonna do. It is rather cringe-y and almost creepy how less than two years ago he was very publicly exploiting women and hetero romanticism. And in a blink, he’s very publicly exploiting “coming out” and “the gays”.
ZzBomb
Firstly, I get where people are saying he is exploiting being gay and the coming out experience as he did did heteronormative life style on reality tv. But that’s his schtick just like Carl Nassib’s is playing football. Just b/c they may have identified as “straight” for a long time to then finally open up and be their true selves should not be shamed.
What I do hope is that we are all proven wrong and that this isn’t just another attention seeking piece. I hope he really is trying to make amends with the people he has hurt and lied to and I hope he works, in real and concrete ways, to further our community’s progress. If that proves to be true than welcome to the family sis!
Note to Aaron Schock: You’ll always be shit.
Donston
Carl doesn’t really have anything to do with this though. Whatever is going on with Carl’s political allegiances, he didn’t go on TV to use hetero-normalcy and hetero ambitions for relevancy and to eschew insecurities. He hasn’t indulged any reality shows about his “coming out”. And as far as we know, he hasn’t been recently accused of stalking, harassing and tracking someone. Just because they both played football doesn’t really mean they’re comparable. Once again, everyone’s dimensions, struggles, insecurities, motivations, journeys are their own, and I don’t get off on shaming people like some folks do here. But there’s still a lot of cringe and discomfort and narrative-building around Colton. I mean, even his dad talked about how he wished Colton hadn’t “come out” to him with cameras filming them. While based on a couple of reviews for this “docu-series”, he’s still dealing with some obvious masculine insecurities that the show never highlights.
I as well do hope that he truly is mostly driven by a desire to live freely and to make amends, rather than mostly driven by money and attention and “cleaning up” his name.
Cam
In the name of honesty in reporting.
“He’d gone to a men’s spa (Bathhouse) in Los Angeles and someone told him they had naked photos of him (Photos of him engaged in some activity with a man) that they would leak to the media.”
CatholicXXX
leak them!
kylede
Can we please report facts here….he never claimed to be making a “documentary” he claimed to making a reality show about his coming out….Netflix changed it to a documentary when it recived backlash over “resality showing” and monetizing his horrible behavior (including his stalking less then 6 month earlier of his Bachelor costar and subsequent restraining order) He was not ever gonna make it back on to ABC so he needed another way to stay relevent…I bet in 5 years he will be married to some other gay “celebreality star” and adopt a baby together, just so they can have the show of raising that child…
mastik8
Say what you will but he is quite consistently boring. Even his angst is boring.
AngryGayPope
These kind of fluff stories is why I stopped going to towleroad