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Colton Underwood came out as gay in April and the former Bachelor star officially has a new man on his arm.
The 29-year-old was spotted locking lips with his new boyfriend, who has been revealed as Jordan C. Brown, during a romantic beachside vacation in Hawaii this week.
Their PDA packed stay at the swanky Four Seasons in Maui comes after a tumultuous time for the Bachelor Nation alum who was accused of stalking his ex Cassie Randolph and then came out during an interview with GMA.
Lovebirds: Colton Underwood was spotted locking lips with his new boyfriend, who has been revealed as Jordan C. Brown, during a romantic beachside vacation in Hawaii this week
Decked out in their board shorts, Colton and Jordan looked as relaxed as can be lounging on white plastic beach chairs and soaking up some sun.
The newly minted couple appeared positively smitten with each other as they were pictured stealing smooches and canoodling in the sand.
Colton’s new boyfriend works as a longtime democratic political operative, according to TMZ.
Jordan worked on the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry, both of former President Barak Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns and with Hillary Clinton on her 2016 bid for the White House.
Kicking back: Decked out in their board shorts, Colton and Jordan looked as relaxed as can be lounging on white plastic beach chairs and soaking up some sun
Colton’s road to romantic happiness has been long and extremely bumpy.
Back in April, he came out as gay on Good Morning America, telling Robin Roberts that he’d been ‘coming to terms’ with and ‘processing’ his sexuality since earlier in the year.
‘The next step in all of this was letting people know. I’m still nervous. It’s been a journey, for sure,’ he said at the time. ‘I’m emotional, but in such a good, happy, positive way. I’m the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been in my life, and that means the world to me.’
Shortly after the announcement it was leaked that he’d been filming the coming out process for a Netflix docu-series and news of the show was met with immediate backlash.
Smart guy: Colton’s new boyfriend works as a longtime democratic political operative, according to TMZ, lending his efforts to multiple presidential campaigns
He also apologized to ex girlfriend Cassie Randolph for how their relationship had ended during the interview with Roberts.
‘I’d like to say sorry for how things ended. I messed up. I made a lot of bad choices,’ he told GMA.
‘If I’m being honest, I loved everything about her and it’s hard for me to articulate exactly what my emotions were in going through with that relationship with her was, because I obviously had an internal fight going on.
‘I would just say that I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart. I’m sorry for the pain and emotional stress I caused. I wish it wouldn’t have happened the way it did.’
Cassie had filed a restraining order against the former Bachelor and claimed he had been stalking and harassing her since their breakup in 2020.
Although she was granted the temporary restraining order, Randolph eventually dismissed it.
Drama: Colton’s ex Cassie Randolph, whom he met on The Bachelor, previously claimed he had been stalking and harassing her since their breakup in 2020
The former couple met when Colton starred on The Bachelor in season 23.
After he confessed his feelings for her and they went unreciprocated, he infamously jumped over a fence and fled from the show’s cameras.
Later, the two reestablished their connection and dated for more than a year, and she was even by his side after he contracted Covid-19 in 2020.
Cassie recently made things Instagram official with her boyfriend, singer/songwriter Brighton Reinhardt.
Since coming out, Colton has tried to distance himself from all of Bachelor Nation, speaking out against the series earlier this summer.
‘Please stop lumping me in with the bachelor,’ Colton wrote on his Instagram Stories in June. ‘I don’t f*** with them anymore, they don’t f*** with me. Point blank. Thanks.’
Moving on: Cassie recently made things Instagram official with her boyfriend, singer/songwriter Brighton Reinhardt
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