SPOILER ALERT! This put up accommodates particulars from Wednesday’s episode of The Masked Singer, together with the id of Lovebird.
After a rousing rendition of “All That You Are” by the GooGoo Dolls on Transformers night time, Lovebird was the primary to be despatched residence throughout a double elimination on The Masked Singer.
Even the judges agreed that Lovebird was exuding extra confidence this week, however sadly that wasn’t sufficient to maintain him off the chopping block. Jenny McCarthy has one other win below her belt after appropriately guessing that the singer behind the masks was none aside from Colton Underwood.
“I had all the time wished I knew I wished to attempt to present it sooner or later and when earlier provides got here in, it simply wasn’t the correct time in my life,” the previous Bachelor instructed Deadline of competing on the present. “When this season got here up, I used to be like, ‘That is the season I say, sure.’ It’s one thing that I by no means thought that I’d wish to say sure to or be snug doing, however it was the expertise of a lifetime and one thing I used to be so pleased and grateful for.”
And since McCarthy appears to have a sixth sense for actuality TV stars on The Masked Singer, Underwood wasn’t shocked in any respect that she was capable of guess his id.
“It was to be anticipated at that time,” he defined. “I knew she had watched my season. I knew she was conversant in me. She had learn my ebook. So I used to be like, ‘Oh, she is gonna have this discovered.’”
Audiences who’ve been following Underwood since his actuality TV journey started on The Bachelorette will know that it’s been a rocky path. After vying for Becca Kufrin on Season 8, Underwood rapidly went on to Bachelor in Paradise, after which he turned The Bachelor for Season 23.
Shortly after his relationship from The Bachelor ended, he confronted allegations of stalking that had been in the end dropped. In 2021, Underwood got here out as homosexual, and his popping out journey means documented within the Netflix sequence Coming Out Colton. He’s now married to husband Jordan C. Brown.
Wanting again on that point in his life now, Underwood mentioned: “Lots of people neglect when these folks go on a present like The Bachelor, they’re of their mid-20s. For me, particularly, I used to be popping out of soccer. I didn’t have a number of emotional maturity, and I’m rapidly navigating a life in entrance of cameras…clearly I used to be nonetheless working by means of a number of disgrace and figuring my sexuality out.”
He added that whereas he “was ready that I ought to have by no means been in,” he’s pleased with the best way issues turned out.
“I’m pleased with serving to contribute to our group and having folks really feel represented as a result of there’s lots of people like me which are struggling, which are hiding, which have a lot disgrace round their sexuality, he continued. “I really feel like I needed to undergo what I went by means of to talk for folks inside our group that felt equally to what I used to be feeling.”
Clearly, Underwood’s Lovebird costume was a nod to his relationship present days, however he additionally thinks it represents the “self acceptance that I’ve skilled in the previous few years.”
“Lovebird spoke to me superbly,” he mentioned.