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Former 'Bachelor' Colton Underwood engaged to Jordan C. Brown

NEW YORK -- Big news for Bachelor Nation, former "Bachelor" Colton Underwood is engaged!

Underwood, 30, is engaged to political strategist Jordan C. Brown,

Underwood revealed the news first to PEOPLE.

He tweeted and posted on Instagram, "Life is going to be fun with you!"

Brown shared on Instagram, "The only time in my life I'm ok with wasting a bottle of champagne. I love you babe."

Underwood came out as lgbtq+ publicly less than a year ago in April

Before Underwood had the starring role on "The Bachelor," he was vying for Becca Kufrin's heart on "The Bachelorette" back in As a fan favorite, and Becca's final 4, he was offered a spot on "Bachelor in Paradise" and then "The Bachelor."

As the season 23 "Bachelor" he fell in love with Cassie Randolph and famously, "jumped the fence" for her. His virginity was brought up continuously throughout the show. "I loved everything about her," he said.

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By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.

In a blog post I wrote for The Center almost three years ago, I made a passing reference to Colton Underwood, who at the time was making headlines as the first virgin bachelor on reality TV’s The Bachelor. “Failure to pursue and fulfill one’s sexual attraction is understood as almost freakishly nonnormative in ,” I wrote, “even if you’re as heterosexual as a man simultaneously online dating 30 women on TV.”

As it turns out, I was rather too swift in assuming Colton’s heterosexuality. In an interview with Good Morning America this April, Colton announced that he is gay and that his time on The Bachelor was a last-ditch effort to get straight. This revelation, and the drama surrounding it, are now the subject of a new Netflix series entitled Coming Out Colton, released earlier this month.


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Former 'Bachelor' star Colton Underwood comes out as gay

Colton Underwood is ready to live his truth.

The former "Bachelor" actor came out as gay in an exclusive interview with Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday.

"I've ran from myself for a long moment. I've hated myself for a drawn-out time," Underwood told Roberts in a pre-taped chat. "And I'm gay. And I came to terms with that earlier this year and have been processing it. And the next step in all of this was sort of letting people know."

"I'm still nervous, but yeah," he continued. "It's been a journey for sure."

Underwood said he finally got to a place where he could be honest with himself after , the year that turned everyone's lives upside down, and made people "look at themselves in the mirror and figure out who they are and what they've been running from or what they've been putting off in their lives."

When Roberts, who is also openly gay, said she could "see the joy" and "

Colton Underwood Opens Up About How He Fits Into LGBTQ+ Community as a Gay Dad

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Getting candid.

Bachelor Nation first met Colton Underwood on Becca Kufrin’s season of “The Bachelorette,” and he returned to our screens for Season 5 of “Bachelor in Paradise” before being named the Season 23 Bachelor.

After his time on the Bachelor Nation shows, Colton came out as gay and married his now-husband Jordan Brown at a stunning ceremony in Napa Valley, California, in May

Last year, the couple celebrated their first anniversary and just welcomed their son Bishop together in September

Now navigating life as a new parent, Colton stopped by the “Milk Drunk” podcast and talked about parenthood, having another youngster, and being a male lover dad.  

The former Bachelor said, “I’ve always sort of looked for how I fit into the queer community since I came out. I love the fact that I’m a gay dad. I crave to, not promote it, but show people and normalize the conversation around what that looks favor. I know people contain a lot of views and social media can be mean at times,