Just hours after publicly coming out as gay, former The Bachelor star Colton Underwood has landed a deal for a new Netflix reality show.
Details of the new series remain sparse, though Variety reports that the show will run multiple episodes and focus on Underwood’s public life as a gay man. Sources also reveal that openly gay former Olympian Gus Kenworthy will also play a major role on the show, acting as a mentor of sorts for Underwood.
Related: Reality star Colton Underwood opens up about his struggles with his sexuality
Netflix has yet to comment officially on the show, though sources say it has already begun filming.
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Former NFL player and star of The Bachelor Season 23, Underwood came out in an interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts on April 14. In the interview, he revealed his long struggle with his sexuality and his subsequent fame as a reality TV star.
“I’ve ran from myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay. I came to terms with that that earlier this year and have been processing it,” Underwood told Roberts. “The next step in all of this was sort of letting people know. I’m still nervous, but it’s been a journey for sure.”
Cam
Translation: He’s been desperately flogging some way to stay famous, and finally Netflix said they would agree to it if he came out.
Because the timing of this looks like he was pitching the idea, somebody had meetings with him about it, then they agreed to a format, then cast Gus Kenworthy, and THEN Colton came out right at a nice time for some publicity.
Good for him for coming out, but…..ugh.
Evji108
Ugh right back atcha, you’d think gay people would have enough heart to find a kind response. But no, just oozing sourness.
Cam
@Evji108
He went on TV and furthered the myth of that 30 year old religious guy who’s a virgin and just hasn’t found the right woman yet. The same thing that keeps younger gay people in the closet.
Glad for him, but planning a show with Netflix takes months, as does casting somebody else like Kenworthy. So it looks like he was happy to come out to them months ago, and publicly only when it was going to drum up publicity.
LGBTQ people can also spot when the community is being baited.
Donston
Using “straight” pretty white boy privilege and virgin sensationalism to get your own show, a show where a bunch of women who you know you don’t want clamor for you, and then using the “I’m ‘gay” twist to quickly get another show right before publicly “coming out”- it just doesn’t sit right with me. It’s way too calculated and manipulative. It’s part of the reason I try not to make a big deal about people “coming out” or about identities. And this is someone who just months ago was going on and on about not being “gay” and how content he was with that. This is someone whose ex girlfriend last year filed a restraining order and accused him of stalking and putting a tracking device in her car.
Growth, maturity, self-understanding, self-acceptance, facing traumas- it’s all cute. But there’s a lot of un-cuteness going on with this dude, and it’s not his face.
Evji108
The un-cuteness is definitely coming from you. It’s called Ugly and it’s in your hard heart.
Donston
I’m remarkably empathetic. I merely told the truth.
Fahd
It’s likely that I won’t watch this. I didn’t watch him on the Bachelor, and a little Gus Kenworthy goes a long way with me. But, given all the reality show crap on basic cable through premium streaming, I don’t begrudge these guys their own crappy show. If we haven’t already, we are approaching everybody being famous for 15 minutes.
ryanss
Seriously? Wasn’t this gay put under a restrained order by his ex girlfriend? Just another “straight acting” clone. He isn’t even pretty. Only white.
Harley
I’m waiting for the all gay version of Survivor.
Jim
He really knows how to play the reality star game.
Coming out was a business ploy.
Prax07
Never heard of him before, so pass on watching. Keworthy though, can’t stand him. Triple pass on watching for him. Sorry Netflix, not interested in this one.
BaltoSteve
Hmmm.. was drafted into the NFL as a tight end.. wonder if Gus will help him become a wide receiver! Yep… low hanging fruit joke.
leauxbeaux
“Low hanging fruit” fruit “joke.”
balttymore
I was gonna ask how long till Mr Kenworthy slides into his DM’s….But looks like Gus has already done so…..
ingyaom
Don’t forget the book deal – just last year he had a hetero book called “The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV” (2020). Now he’ll have to write the homo sequel about “finding himself” again.
yendor808
Who? What? I’m clueless why anybody with an IQ above room temp would waste one minute of time on pseudo “reality tv.” Netflix has become the National Enquirer of streaming. Dump it and move on to other streaming services. Your brain will thank you for it.
Alex_S
Come on, people with low IQ don’t get TV and books deals.
yendor808
Except lapping up faux news line brainless idiots.
spunkfunker
The grift goes on…..
greekboy
Alex, that’s not true. Look at Florida Fats, aka trump…books and tv shows, and he can’t even read. So far as Colton is concerned, if you ever saw him dance, you had to know that he is a mo, a great big one. A shameless self promoter. Move over Gus, because there’s a new girl in town and she’s after your crown.
AltGayMind
Damn the gay community turns so quickly on their own. Yes, this does seem a bit like a PR move but what happened to “Love Wins” and welcoming others who have clearly struggled with coming out and now finally speaking their truth? The comments here are so unaccepting and all the anti-white comments are just blatant racism. As a proud, out gay man myself – I can honestly say the majority of how other gay men think, act and treat each other is so far removed from my own approach or my way of living and a complete reverse from the message our so-called community preaches. I think that’s even sadder then Colton landing another reality show.
Donston
This “we need to support each other” mess is just another form of manipulation, a way to get people to overlook shitty behaviors and overlook shitty people.
I understand every form of “struggles”. But “coming out” doesn’t excuse everything you’ve done in the past. Nor does it mean people have to support you. The dude did three separate seasons of a reality show trying to find his “right woman” when he knew he wasn’t legit interested in chicks the whole time. That can be overlooked as perhaps extreme desperation and insecurities. However, the dude stalked and harassed his ex. The dude said some borderline homophobic shit. He promoted him being so into girls to sell a book. He appears to be Conservative. He didn’t “come out” until he had a book deal and a new reality show booked. And all of this shit happened in the past year. While he hasn’t begun to publicly confront this stuff. The dude is a manipulative and narcissistic mess. Embracing a “gay” identity doesn’t erase that.
Good for him for being himself or whatever. But nobody has to embrace anyone. Everything he does seems like calculated self-promotion and ego boosts, which would be fine if it wasn’t lined with some problematic shit. The shade he’s getting is for good reasons, not just “bitter queen” diatribe. The dude has a ways to go to get his image in check. While the fact that you felt the need to defend his “whiteness” and call people “racist” is a reflection and the deflecting type of mess you’re on.
Cam
He never wanted to be one of “Our Own” until the career was drying up.
Again, good for him, but there is something slimy about it.
Winsocki
All this reading and bashing of this dude is real hypocritical from The Gays. I never watched Batchelor / ette and other pimp reality tv .. But please spill some vile on that Kardashian Family TV saga. And all the gays and lesbians that fawn over that family or do their bidding and weddings etc . That is vomit inducing. So let this Colton do what little he can . I admit I never watched Kardashian but reading and hearing about them is almost impossible. If they pop a pimple it is reported.
Donston
What does the Kardashians have to do with this dude? As if being sickened by this dude’s actions makes you a Kardashian fan.
Y’all know that you can’t defend this dude. So, all you have are diversions and shallow pleas of “we need to support each other.”
winemaker
Who of wonders what Colton Underwood looks like in the nude? Surely as a football player, he’s showered with the ‘guys’ post game.. and how many players on his team were secretly gay? Bottom line, now that his team knows he’s gay, hopefully there won’t be any problems with his team mates.
James26
Rather see more of gay and bi guys like Colton than the weirdos who usually get all the attention like James Charles and Jonathan Van Ness. It’s time for more inclusive LGB representation and less over-representation by a tiny cohort of weird men who act like women.
Donston
Your femme-phobic trolling and constant whining about “weirdos” is officially old. It doesn’t even line up with reality since the majority of “out” male public figures aren’t even fem.
You’re not even a good troll account, just annoying and obvious. Give us more of a variety of troll tactics at least.
BoomerMyles
He’s hot, butch and white. That’s enough for network executives to green light a show.
Kieran
Yeah, because there’s so many shows featuring hot, butch, white gay men, right? What planet do you live on?
HankHarris
Another example of people’s pathological need for attention and fame, and they will do anything for it. Gay man goes on Bachelor pretending to be straight to be famous. Gay man comes out for more fame. Gay man sells reality show on his coming out to get more famous.
And we can all just ignore him.
Cam
He went on the Stern show and when Howard asked him what his career goals were, he said he wanted to do something in the entertainment industry, like being a host of a show or something.
So he’s wanted this since the start.
Tombear
@James26, I like the weirdo gay men. My faves are John Wayne Gacy and Randy Kraft. They do serial killing right!
AltGayMind
Again, our so called “community” on a whole is constantly fighting for inclusion, acceptance and equal rights – and rightfully so!!! But you also can’t preach that everyone must be accepting of the LGBT community and use “love wins” as a motto and then turn around and shit on anyone you don’t like or who has a different opinion or viewpoint as your own. One perusal of the comments across this site proves what hypocrites most gay men are – practice what you preach boys!!
Kieran
Well said.