{"id":521481,"date":"2026-01-16T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:45:10","slug":"colton-underwood-comment-wasnt-about-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521481\/","title":{"rendered":"Colton Underwood Comment Wasn’t About Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: <\/strong>This story contains spoilers from \u201cIf You\u2019re Gonna Come for Me, I\u2019ll Finish You,\u201d the fifth episode of \u201cThe Traitors<\/a>\u201d Season 4, now streaming on Peacock.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Rapaport<\/a> is under fire for his latest comments on \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d During the fifth episode of Season 4, which was released on Thursday night, the actor called out Colton Underwood<\/a> during the roundtable.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the day, Underwood and Rapaport got into a yelling match as the former Bachelor claimed his opponent was a Traitor and tried to convince the rest of the cast that was the case. However, since Underwood had previously led the troops incorrectly when targeting \u201cBig Brother\u201d star Tiffany Mitchell, Rapaport claimed that in fact he was the traitor, trying to throw everyone off. Once at the roundtable, the argument boiled over.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am angry, I\u2019m pissed off, and I am isolated because of him, and nobody in this room would be better at holding a secret than you,\u201d Rapaport said, to which Underwood responded, \u201cThere it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA quick backstory: Underwood appeared on \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d and \u201cThe Bachelor,\u201d both showcasing his relationships with women. He spoke often (and wrote in his book) about being straight despite people questioning his sexuality throughout his life. In 2020, Cassie Randolph, who won his season of \u201cThe Bachelor,\u201d filed a restraining order against him for stalking and placing a tracker on her car, which he eventually admitted to. The following year, Underwood came out as gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou think it was fun for 29 years of my life?\u201d Underwood asked Rapaport while at the roundtable. Quickly, Rapaport said, \u201cNo, no, no, that has nothing to do with this. I think you came into this game loving the idea of being a Traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMultiple other cast members then chimed in. Olympian Johnny Weir said, \u201cYou can\u2019t blame somebody being forced intoa closet for the majority of their life,\u201d to which Rapaport replied, \u201cI\u2019m not talking about closets\u2026 His behavior is of a Traitor, his behavior is secret, it\u2019s conniving\u2026 It\u2019s cowardly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen \u201cLove Island\u201d star Maura Higgins called the remarks \u201ca very low blow,\u201d Rapaport replied, \u201cI don\u2019t think it was, it wasn\u2019t intended to be,\u201d before adding, \u201cI apologize if he took it that way.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the point of the rountable is to banish Traitors, many members of the cast took this chance to oust Rapaport \u2014 and didn\u2019t care whether he was a Traitor or Faithful. \u201cToday, the way you spoke to Colton, for me, it\u2019s enough to write your name down. So I think we should just get together and vote him out of here,\u201d said \u201cSurvivor\u201d star Natalie Anderson.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith that, 11 out of 16 cast members voted to banish him. When revealing his name, Weir added, \u201cI don\u2019t give a shit what you are. I just want you out of my castle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter his banishment, Rapaport apologized in his confessional. \u201cIt sucks, but I felt backed into a corner, and I tried to fight my way out of it. Maybe I fought too hard. I meant what I meant within the context of the game. It had nothing to do with his sexuality,\u201d he said. \u201cI really sincerely apologize if I offended Colton or anybody in the house. That absolutely wasn\u2019t my intention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the three-episode \u201cTraitors\u201d premiere on Jan. 8, the audience immediately seemed to hate Rapaport as one, and he continually took on fans on X. In response to one tweet making fun of him, he wrote, \u201cThey\/Them opinions don\u2019t mean sh*t. They Them ain\u2019t even real THEY or THEMS.\u201d He ended up locking his account, going private on X, but has since unlocked it again.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the Jan. 15 episodes aired, he posted on X, \u201cI played a hard game, I played a real game & I had a fun. Never wanted to offend anyone watching or the cast.\u201d He has continued to tweet through it, arguing with those posting about him; on Friday, he replied to one \u201cTraitors\u201d viewer on X and mocked them for having pronouns in their bio. He also canceled his exit interviews that were scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from \u201cIf You\u2019re Gonna Come for Me, I\u2019ll Finish You,\u201d the fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[232104,171,232105,27103,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-521481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-colton-underwood","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-michael-rapaport","11":"tag-the-traitors","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115907443071149072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}