SPOILER ALERT! This put up comprises 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 house 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 beneath her belt after accurately guessing that the singer behind the masks was none apart from Colton Underwood.
“I had at all times 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 proper time in my life,” the previous Bachelor advised 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 might need to say sure to or be comfy doing, nevertheless it was the expertise of a lifetime and one thing I used to be so completely happy and grateful for.”
And since McCarthy appears to have a sixth sense for actuality TV stars on The Masked Singer, Underwood wasn’t stunned in any respect that she was in a position to guess his id.
“It was to be anticipated at that time,” he defined. “I knew she had watched my season. I knew she was aware of 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 shortly went on to Bachelor in Paradise, after which he grew to become 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 method documented within the Netflix collection Coming Out Colton. He’s now married to husband Jordan C. Brown.
Trying again on that point in his life now, Underwood mentioned: “Lots of people overlook when these individuals 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 quite a lot of emotional maturity, and I’m abruptly navigating a life in entrance of cameras…clearly I used to be nonetheless working by quite a lot 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 neighborhood and having individuals really feel represented as a result of there’s lots of people like me which might be struggling, which might be hiding, which have a lot disgrace round their sexuality, he continued. “I really feel like I needed to undergo what I went by to talk for individuals inside our neighborhood that felt equally to what I used to be feeling.”
Clearly, Underwood’s Lovebird costume was a nod to his courting 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.