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Colton Underwood Says He Asked Simone Biles for Advice After His Breakup With Aly Raisman


Former Bachelor star Colton Underwood has a new book out, and he’s letting people in on his personal life even more than he did on reality TV.

In The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV, he writes about his experiences on The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor in Paradise, but also his non-televised relationships, like the one he had with Olympic gymnastics star Aly Raisman a few years back.

“Aly was easy to talk to. She was open, funny, bright, honest, and inquisitive. She laughed easily and had a smile that I would’ve been happy to simply gaze at for the rest of the night, no further conversation necessary,” he wrote in his book, per Us Weekly. Of their first dates, he said, “It was very late when I dropped her back at her hotel, and when I said I’d had a great time, I meant it. Later that night, Aly texted me a thank-you. Neither of us had expected to get on as well as we did. For a first date, it couldn’t have gone better.” Sadly, their relationship didn’t last.

Colton Underwood and Aly Raisman in January 2017.

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When the couple broke up, Underwood reached out to Raisman’s friend and fellow gymnast Simone Biles for advice. “I pulled over to the side of the road, stunned and unable to comprehend this was happening,” he wrote of their FaceTime split. “Aly said she felt overwhelmed, confused, and in need of a break. Afterward, I sat in my car and cried. I was numb for days.” After not hearing back from Raisman via text, he says he got in touch with Biles “hoping she could offer an explanation or insight.” Alas, she could not. He says he is now a “better and wiser man” because of their relationship and also reveals he promised not to speak about her on The Bachelorette.

Colton Underwood is currently dating Cassie Randolph, whom he met on his Bachelor season. Here’s hoping everyone involved is in a better place now.



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The Bachelor Season 23, Episode 11 Recap: Will Colton and Cassie End Up Together?


Let’s get right into The Bachelor recap, because there’s so much to discuss. Spoilers ahead, obviously.

Aside from a brief montage of the season’s biggest moments, tonight’s episode picks up with Colton’s famed fence jump. It’s hard to tell what’s going on, it’s so dark and the cameras are so shaky. It’s The Blair Witch Project—but instead of a Maryland witch exacting her revenge upon hapless campers, it’s Chris Harrison running around the Portuguese countryside yelling, “Colton?”

“Colton?”

“Colton!”

A van full of producers drives up. They’re on the case, giving play-by-play walkie talkie updates. It’s like Live PD, but instead of brave police men and women arresting criminals it’s a producer saying, “I think we should go back and look in the brush more?”

“It’s 11:40 at night!” Chris Harrison tells someone on the phone. At first I think maybe he’s complaining that it’s past his bedtime—those roses can’t hand themselves out—but then he adds that they’ll have to call the police if Colton doesn’t turn up in another 20 or 30 minutes.

Ooh, maybe this really is Live PD.

Never mind, the producers in the van found Colton walking on the side of the road. “Are you okay?” a producer asks as she grabs his arm to get him out of the way of an oncoming car. “Don’t touch me,” he snipes back. “No, I’m not okay.”

When Chris—out of breathe, aw—catches up with Colton, the Bachelor says he’s “done with this shit.” Chris, correctly, is like, Sir, you can’t just walk to the airport. At least get in the car. Colton repeats that he’s done with the whole thing. Done done. When he finally gets in the car, Colton cries because he’s been “reminded enough times” that he’s “not enough.”

“Every time I put myself out there I get rejected,” he says. Um, tell that to Tia. Or, I don’t know, all the women you’ve dumped this season. You want the one woman who rejected you—it doesn’t take a full 40-minute therapy session to figure that one out.

The next morning, Chris Harrison checks in with Colton. “Last night was wild,” he jokes. Colton says he needed time alone, because “any time something good happens to me, or for me, it’s followed by something bad.” (Again, can we get Tia’s thoughts on this?)

He thinks Cassie left because she’s confused about him still dating two other women, so he needs to fix that. “Do you really think that’s what it is?” Chris asks, correctly. “What if the bottom line is she’s just not that into you?”

Colton is all, Nahhh, she loves me. She’s just too scared to admit it. Sure, Colton. Sure.

Time to break up with Tayshia, I guess. He shows up at her room and makes her just sit there, confused, while he sighs and looks at the ground. “You’re incredible,” he finally says, before dropping the bomb that he loves Cassie. She replies with a pursed lip and a simple “mmhmm” that says it all. “Can we talk without all these cameras?” she asks. They go into her room, but the mics stay on. (Thank God. The inevitable closed-door-microphone-on conversation scene is always a highlight on any reality show.) Nothing too juicy though—they just cry. At one point, Colton opens the door just wide enough to allow the cameras to see him hugging her goodbye.

When we return from commercial, Tayshia’s in the studio with Chris looking ab-so-lutely fantastic. She says it hurt to hear he was in love with Cassie, but she knows it must have been hard for him to admit that. Chris points out that she was mainly taking care of him during the breakup, when it’s usually the other way around. “I know that I deserve a lot,” she says. If Colton loves someone else, well, that’s his journey.

When Colton joins her on stage, Tayshia asks what was missing. He says it’s not really something missing in their relationship, but rather what he had with Cassie. “I just wish the best for you,” she says. “I hope you’re happy.”



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The Bachelor Season 23, Episode 9 Recap: So That's Why Colton Jumped the Fence


There’s so much that happens this episode of The Bachelor—the much-anticipated fence jump, a surprise cameo from Cassie’s dad, Colton’s first overnight date, to name a few—so let’s just jump right in, shall we? Spoilers ahead, obviously.

Things kick off with Colton and Chris Harrison catching up. For a hot second, it seems like they’re going to have “the talk.”

“I have an idea of what happens in a fantasy suite,” Colton says, not at all convincingly.

“Thank God,” Chris answers, maybe a little too quickly.

Colton then assures Chris (and us viewers) that if the situation is right and everyone’s in love, he’s gonna do it this week. Or, as he puts it, “make love.”

“Enjoy your week,” Chris says as they part ways. “Congratulations!”

With that, they’re all off to Portugal. Cheers.

Once everyone lands in Europe, the women reveal their priorities for the week. Tayshia’s ready to “explore” being physical with Colton. Cassie wants to use this time to figure out her feelings. And the first thing on Hannah’s to-do list is the fantasy suite. As for Colton, he seems really, really excited about maybe-possibly losing his virginity.

That’s good news, I guess, for Tayshia, who has the first date of the week. “I hope today has in store a lot of new firsts for us,” she insinuates. Before they can get to that, though, they must get through the rest of the date which starts with a helicopter ride. During it, they talk about the super sexy topic of Portugal’s main exports. Colton jokes that it’s extra virgin olive oil, to which Tayshia quips, “That’s how I like ’em!”

The virgin innuendos don’t end there. After the helicopter takes them to a castle—or fort, maybe?—the two sip on champagne and talk about all the things they’ve done together. “What’s something you haven’t done yet?” Tayshia asks. Colton yells back, “Fantasy suites, baby!!!” To my amazement, she continues with the date. In all seriousness, though, Colton says he’s just excited to have intimate conversations with all the women this week, whether or not that involves losing his virginity. Sure.

Before the commercial break, Tayshia assures us viewers that she’s totally ready to “take that next step” with Colton. Then, when we return from the break, she reiterates that she’s only intimate with someone she loves, and she’s in love with Colton. I appreciate and yet am horrified by the amount of times the producers have asked this women to confirm that, yes, a sexual encounter with Colton would be consensual. At this point, I’m half expecting her to show up with a notarized statement stating, “I want to have sex with Colton.”

We finally get to the dinner portion of their date, to which Tayshia wears a dress that requires all the boob tape available in Portugal. It looks fantastic. Colton can’t keep his eyes off her chest, though that’s partially because she keeps fussing with her dress. She asks him to keep an eye out in case a boob pops out, and Colton is like, “YUP.”

They talk, yet again, about Colton’s virginity and the night ahead. Tayshia tells him that she waited to have sex—she lost her virginity to her ex-husband—so she understands the importance of the situation. Then she reveals that a year into her marriage her husband cheated, which she says taught her the value of intimacy even more. Colton promises that if they are endgame, he’ll never cheat. (I mean, dude, that should be a given—but a sweet sentiment.)

Colton presents Tayshia with a key to the fantasy suite, and she says yes. Cue some corny music as Colton talks about his sexual prowess. “As men, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to perform well,” Colton says. “….how hard can it be?” Don’t worry, Colton assures us, he’s experienced in other ways. He’s done basically everything but, lest we question his ability.



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The Bachelor Colton Underwood Has a Lot to Say About Cassie and That Fence Jump


Heads up: Spoilers for the most recent episode of The Bachelor are ahead.

“Holy f–k, he’s gone,” is most likely something Chris Harrison never thought he’d say on this—or any—season of The Bachelor. Actually, Colton, a franchise staple since last spring, probably didn’t think he’d run off into the Portuguese countryside looking to escape the cameras either. But love on reality TV will do that to you—especially when it’s not reciprocated.

Love him or leave him, you couldn’t help but feel sorry for the fence-jumping former football player when he poured his heart out to Cassie, only to have her admit she’s not “in love” with him and doesn’t think she can get there. The whole thing is a mess, so it’s no wonder Colton felt like his only option was to hop a fence and go rogue.

But what about Tayshia and Hannah G.? Will Colton—who’s said he wants to be engaged from day one—propose to either of them? Or will he try to get Cassie back before she heads home to the states? With a week to go before we get those answers, Colton sat down with Glamour to talk about the details of the fence jump, and whether he wishes he would have listened to all those warning signs. “You haven’t even seen it all yet,” he teases.

OK, we must talk about the fence before anything else. Did you get splinters? How did you know you could even make it over?

Colton Underwood: It was metal, so I didn’t get splinters. To be honest, I wasn’t even thinking about not making it over. It was the last thing on my mind. I’m just very happy I stuck the landing and didn’t fall ungracefully over it. I’m very happy about how the actual performance of the jump went. [Laughs]

Did you hurt yourself at all? And how long after you jumped over the gate did the producers find you?

Colton: I didn’t hurt myself. And I was gone for quite a bit. Hours.

Do you regret scaring Chris and the producers by disappearing for so long?

Colton: No, I think in that moment I needed time to myself. I needed to sit and process everything. You guys don’t get to see too much behind the scenes, but you’re always sort of around producers and TVs. You’re always talking to somebody, so to have space, to have time to yourself, was much needed in that moment.

You don’t like talking about regrets—but now that we know what happens with Cassie, do you wish you had listened more to Katie and Kirpa?

Colton: No, because those two aren’t in the relationship with Cassie [and me]. You can only speak from your experiences, and it was a lot of she said/she said and I heard it from this, I heard it from that…no one actually heard it. I think one thing I realized is I have to follow my heart and trust my gut and think, how does this person make me feel? I didn’t see any red flags in any of my relationships. I really didn’t.

But do you understand why some viewers might be angry with Cassie for getting to this point and then saying she’s not ready? Especially because you’ve said it was your biggest fear all along.

Colton: Yeah, I think everybody goes through this in their own way. There’s no right way to really do this. I could see why people’s opinions are probably going to be like, “So why did you say you didn’t say that when you weren’t really there?” I think that’s what was probably most frustrating about that night for me too—putting my heart out there and breaking every unwritten Bachelor rule that there is of laying it all out there and fighting for somebody. It was tough.



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Why The Bachelor's Kirpa Sudick Thought She and Colton Would Make a Great Match


Kirpa Sudick had perhaps one of the most memorable Bachelor opening lines in history: “I really hope Colton flosses. It would be a good experience to clean his teeth.” This makes sense when you learn more about Sudick, a 26-year-old dental hygienist from Whittier, California. So, yes, clean teeth are very important to her.

But that’s not the only relationship barometer she has. Sudick is also an avid journal user and wants her potential boyfriend to have a similar appetite from books. “I hope that my future partner enjoys reading, and constantly learning and growing,” she says.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like that partner will be Colton Underwood. Kirpa was eliminated in tonight’s episode, but she’s staying optimistic. “The dream scenario was to have a connection with Colton and further that into a relationship and at the end of it be engaged, but [I’m happy I] made new friends and traveled and enjoyed everyone’s company.”

Sudick haphazardly decided to sign up for The Bachelor. “I had just come off a break-up and my friends were like, ‘This online dating thing isn’t working for you, why don’t you submit yourself for The Bachelor?’ It was kind of a joking thing, but I went on my phone and did it.”

She had no expectations going in—not even about Colton. “I was excited,” she says. “I didn’t really have anyone in mind [during the process of who it would be]. I was excited to meet him and see if we had a connection.” Ultimately, though, Kirpa thought her and Colton’s mutual love of children and animals would make them a good match. “[I liked] on Becca’s season when he took her to his hometown and they worked with kids at the hospital,” Kirpa says. “I thought we would connect that way.”

Now that this process is over, Sudick has a clearer idea of what she wants in a relationship. One big thing she’s looking for is communication. “Your partner needs to be able to express how he’s feeling and if he needs something, don’t be shy about bringing it to light,” she says. “[I need] someone that is very open.”

To learn more about Kirpa, follow her on Instagram here.

— reporting by Alize Emme





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Colton Underwood Says the 'Bachelor' Finale Will Be Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen


CU: I was really attracted to her presence and how she makes me feel. And what she gets out of me. There’s a level of comfort there that you can only wish and hope for. That’s what I found.

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Glamour: By the way, what happened to Kirpa’s chin? Much like Elyse’s earrings, she didn’t have a bandage on her chin at one moment, and the next she did.

CU: She was having a producer take a picture for Instagram, and she slipped on a rock and busted her chin open. She’s so funny; she said, “Thailand’s fucked me up!” [Laughs.] It was so funny in the deleted scene.

Glamour: The finale will air over two nights on March 11 and 12, so what can you tell us about these next few weeks?

CU: As far as the finale, when you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen. I’m interested to see what people think. I really am.

Glamour: What on earth does that mean? [Laughs.] I feel like we’ve seen it all.

CU: You’re in for a good one. [Actually], you’re in for a great one. Dare I say it be the most dramatic finale of all time….

Glamour: So, since everything will be out in the open next month, what are you most excited about in regard to people knowing what happens?

CU: I’m most excited about going to a restaurant and eating a normal dinner. I mean…

Glamour: With another person? Otherwise why can’t you do that now?

CU: I mean, I don’t really go out now because I like to keep my privacy. I’m not trying to be rude, but while the show is airing, I just don’t want to be questioned, so I stay at home right now. I can’t wait to go back out.

Glamour: But people are still going to mob you and have questions once the show is over. That won’t stop.

CU: Correct. But at least at that point it doesn’t make me look like a bad guy. I just don’t like saying no to people [when they come up to me with questions], but they respect it, because they know I don’t want to spoil the show.

Glamour: Finally, we’ve seen plenty of past Bachelors or Bachelorettes say they’re either engaged or they’ve fallen in love while the show is still airing, but you have not said that.

CU: Nope.

Glamour: Was that something that you or ABC decided not to say?

CU: I wanted it that way. I think, for me, especially for how everything ends and goes down, it’s important that the audience goes on this roller coaster with me. There were a lot of ups and downs throughout all of this, but especially toward the end. I think keeping that as raw and true and organic and vulnerable to everybody is really important.

Jessica Radloff is the Glamour West Coast editor. Follow her on Twitter at @JRadloff and on Instagram at @jessicaradloff14.





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