1. Colton Underwood played defensive end at Illinois State and was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2014, and was on the practice squads of the Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles.
22 Facts About Colton Underwood
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Colton Underwood is the first lead in Bachelor franchise history to come out as gay.
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Brown-Colton Underwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Scott and Donna Colton Underwood.
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Scott and Colton Underwood both attended Washington Community High School; Colton Underwood graduated in 2010.
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Colton Underwood graduated from Illinois State University, where he followed his father's footsteps to play college football for the Redbirds.
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On May 10,2014, Brown-Colton Underwood was signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Diego Chargers.
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On September 3,2014, Colton Underwood was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles' practice squad.
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On September 23,2014, Brown-Colton Underwood returned to the Chargers and was signed to their practice squad.
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On December 1,2015, Colton Underwood was signed to the Oakland Raiders' practice squad.
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Brown-Colton Underwood was a contestant on the 14th season of The Bachelorette, starring Becca Kufrin.
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On September 21,2018, ABC announced that Colton Underwood had started filming The Bachelor and had already met three of his contestants on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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The six-episode series produced by Jeff Jenkins, Coming Out Colton Underwood, premiered on Netflix on December 3,2021.
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In 2024, Brown-Colton Underwood competed in season eleven of The Masked Singer as "Lovebird".
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Colton Underwood was eliminated on "Transformers Night" alongside DeMarcus Ware as "Koala".
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Brown-Colton Underwood started the foundation after his cousin Harper was diagnosed with the disease.
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From 2016 to 2017, Brown-Colton Underwood dated gymnast Aly Raisman after he asked her out in a video.
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Colton Underwood began dating speech pathology student Cassie Randolph after meeting her on season 23 of The Bachelor.
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When Randolph initially ended their relationship during the final three, Colton Underwood broke up with the other two women and asked Randolph for a second chance without the pressure of an engagement.
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In September 2020, Randolph filed a restraining order against Colton Underwood, alleging that he stalked her outside her Los Angeles apartment and her parents' Huntington Beach house, sent harassing text messages using an anonymous number, and installed a tracking device underneath her car.
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Colton Underwood forwarded the email to his publicist, and this caused him to come out publicly.
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On September 1,2021, Underwood was reported to be dating Democratic strategist Jordan C Brown after the two were spotted vacationing together in Hawaii, which he confirmed in December 2021 in a birthday post for Brown.
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In February 2022, Colton Underwood confirmed that he and Brown had gotten engaged shortly after his 30th birthday the previous month.