The gay ex-NFL player Colton Underwood has opened up on the extreme measures he took to hide his sexuality from his teammates while in the league and according to him, he wouldn’t take a shower after practice because he was afraid of getting turned on in the locker room or in the shower.
Colton who appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper said:
“I wouldn’t shower after practice because I was afraid of getting turned on in the locker room or in the shower.
“I never really was attracted to anybody who I played with, or coaches. So, it’s sort of silly to even say that. But, I wanted to avoid any chance of being outed, so I would not shower with the rest of the team.”
He continued:
“There was just a lot of things that I sort of did differently than other players because I felt like I had to, because I didn’t want questions to start being asked.”
Underwood expressed how he even slept through parties while intoxicated out of fear of unwittingly revealing his sexuality.
If you recall Underwood pretended to be straight for an entire season of The Bachelor.
Underwood was a contestant on the 14th season of The Bachelorette, starring Becca Kufrin.
After getting eliminated in week 8 after hometown dates, Underwood was cast in season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise. After being linked to fellow contestant Tia Booth, Underwood broke up with her, and both left Paradise separately in the fourth week.
On September 4, 2018, ABC announced that Underwood would star in the 23rd season of The Bachelor. The announcement received mixed reactions on social media. On September 21, 2018, ABC announced that Colton had started filming The Bachelor and had already met three of his contestants on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
On April 14, 2021, Variety reported that Underwood was in production for his own unscripted series at Netflix. The six-episode series, Coming Out Colton, premiered on Netflix on December 3, 2021.[19] In the series, he meets with other openly gay public figures, including Gus Kenworthy, Michael Sam, and CMT host Cody Alan.
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