Is Colton Underwood Attending The Traitors Season 4 Reunion?

Warning: This interview accommodates Traitors Season 4 spoilers. After eight episodes, six banishments (each failed and profitable), and one controversial blue sweater, Colton Underwood was formally murdered on The Traitors, thus ending the time of certainly one of Season 4’s most controversial contestants. 

Underwood—who’s greatest identified for his appearances on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and made historical past as the primary former Bachelor to come out as homosexual in 2021—was chosen as a trustworthy in Episode 1 and was a robust participant from the beginning, main the banishment that took out Season 4’s first traitor, Donna Kelce, in Episode 2.

Nonetheless, because the episodes went on, the followers (and his fellow forged members) appeared to bitter on Underwood, with many criticizing his aggressive and reckless gameplay. The destructive response, which additionally led to followers resurfacing Underwood’s previous authorized controversies, bought so dangerous that The Traitors needed to difficulty a press release condemning the cyberbullying and harassment of the forged. 

How I confirmed up on Traitors is just not how I present up in my actual life.

“One factor that individuals don’t perceive is how I confirmed up on Traitors is just not how I present up in my actual life as a dad and a husband. I’m not that intense in actual life,” Underwood tells StyleCaster. “I’m a really aggressive individual. It’s kind of in my blood to compete and play onerous. There are lots of people who’re first discovering out about me on this present, and I get it, I used to be intense, and I used to be aggressive, however that’s actually not who I’m in my on a regular basis.” 

Regardless of his greatest makes an attempt to make it to the tip, Underwood was murdered in Episode 8 of The Traitors Season 4, which noticed remaining traitors Candiace Dillard Bassett and (Underwood’s closest ally) Rob Rausch seal his destiny within the sport, which, in flip, sealed Dillard Bassett’s destiny as the following traitor to be banished. Under, StyleCaster spoke to Underwood about his response to the destructive response he’s confronted on The Traitors; the place he stands with Lisa Rinna, Michael Rapaport, Tiffany Mitchell, and extra rivals from the present; and whether or not he plans to attend the sequence’ upcoming reunion, the place he’s certain to be within the scorching seat: “There’s going to be lots stated.”

Was this the primary season you had been requested to be on The Traitors?

This was the third season I used to be requested. The primary one simply didn’t work out logistically for my schedule. The second time I used to be provided was proper round when Bishop was born, so logistically it wasn’t within the playing cards. However I used to be so appreciative and so honored to affix this season. I believe every little thing occurs for a cause. It was an ideal match for me. 

What was your response whenever you discovered who the traitors had been?

It was sensible. Lisa, Candiace, and Rob. It’s the right combine, proper? You will have somebody to name the wild card in Lisa. You will have the quiet, reserved Rob. Then you might have what I might take into account the chief of the pack in Candiace, and kind of the brains of the operation. It simply made a lot sense when I discovered them out.

We noticed you think each Lisa and Candiace. Did you ever suspect Rob? 

Rob was not on my radar one bit. The one factor that made my antennas go up on Rob is when he informed everyone he had the dagger. It didn’t add as much as me. Why would he do this? There’s six of us right here, statistically talking, certainly one of us is a traitor on this group. Why impulsively, are you telling everyone you might have this? I believed it was for certain a protection play. I used to be like, “For those who want protection, protection from who? Your title wasn’t introduced up in any respect at that time.” That was his solely mistake, for my part.

Do you assume it was a mistake to homicide you?

I believe Rob’s taking part in an excellent sport. However a part of me thinks it was a bit of little bit of a mistake to kill me off. I had no suspicion of Rob. My loyalty was one hundred pc with him. He and Natalie had been my one and two. I used to be able to go after Candiace onerous, and I might have beloved to have been recruited. I haven’t seen that episode but, so I don’t know the way it performs, however from what I’ve heard, it was kind of like there isn’t a deal-making. There isn’t any different title. It’s Colton, and we’re not leaving this turret till you say it’s Colton. 

You’ve obtained loads of backlash in your gameplay this season. What has your response been to that?

At this level of my life and my profession, anytime I’m again into the highlight, it offers me a bit of bit of tension. Individuals have watched me develop up in entrance of them by way of The Bachelor in my early days, and my journey has been one I’m extraordinarily happy with, and it has not been good. I might be the primary one to say that. By my Netflix present and different varied occasions, I’ve owned the errors I’ve made in my previous, so I undoubtedly perceive it’s difficult at occasions to learn issues which might be both inaccurate or lack context. However I’m additionally happy with how I confirmed up and performed the sport. I made some nice friendships with the individuals who had been on this season of Traitors, they usually’re gonna be recollections I cherish without end. 

I need to speak in regards to the Lisa Rinna of all of it. After your back-and-forth with Lisa on the roundtable a few weeks in the past, she posted a remark about you on Threads, which she later backtracked on. What was your response to that, and what’s your relationship now?

Lisa and I talk through textual content and message one another. We’re pleasant. We additionally perceive we’re on a tv present collectively, and we had been kind of nemeses. She is an icon and a legend, and one of many biggest to do, not solely housewives, however her profession normally. I believe anytime you watch one thing again, it brings up the feelings and the depth of what that sport was. After that episode, you kind of go away the drama of the present to the present. There have been conversations she and I had the place we had been identical to, “Hey, we’re all for enjoying the sport, however when it turns into greater than that, that’s when now we have to have a dialog as mates.” 

Tiffany can also be somebody who’s had phrases for you on social media after she was banished from the present. What’s your relationship now?

I used to be flawed with Tiffany, and I’ll be the primary to take a seat right here and be like, “I tousled. I made a mistake.” However I went for Tiffany, how I went for Donna, and the way I went for Lisa, and the way I used to be planning on going for Candiace. I needed to play this sport with conviction and confidence. The second you’re wishy washy—you noticed that with my gameplay on the very first spherical desk. I let any individual pull me off my intestine to go together with Donna, and I went with Porsha and made a mistake. From then on out, as quickly as I stated a reputation, I used to be sticking to it, it doesn’t matter what. However it’s a sport. I believe she understands that too, as a sport participant, and I’m certain she’s gonna have loads of questions for me, too. However I respect her gameplay. I wasn’t as acquainted with her sport model from Massive Brother till after the present. Hopefully, she’ll respect the sport of all of it.

Traitors is a person sport.

How do you are feeling in regards to the reunion arising, and do you intend to attend?

We’ll have to determine and tune in for that. That’s what I’ll say there. Clearly, lots of people are going to have loads of issues to say and get off their plates. This season undoubtedly didn’t lack, not solely gameplay, however drama. There’s going to be lots to be stated there.

At a couple of roundtables in the past, Michael Rapaport made a remark that you simply interpreted as a dig towards your sexuality. Michael has since apologized and stated that he didn’t imply it like that. What do you consider now?

What I’ll say about that scenario is I consider it was a low blow. I at all times went into the roundtables with proof from the sport, and I by no means needed to make something private about no matter I knew about these gamers. I simply don’t need to create a bias when there’s not. I need to deal with everyone as the identical. I need to simply collect info and current it. I believe when that second occurred, you see me take a step again, and it took me out of the sport the place I’m like, “OK, that wasn’t cool.” Since then, he has referred to as, and we’ve spoken on the telephone, and he’s apologized. I’m not any individual who holds grudges or desires to take a seat in that for very lengthy. So after all, I forgave him, and we moved previous it. I’m certain, if he’s on the reunion and if I’m on the reunion, we’ll have to speak about it once more. However after the present, he dealt with it I believed in a really respectful and great way.

For those who weren’t murdered, do you assume you may’ve received?

At that time, I performed such a brash, daring sport, and I used to be very proactive in searching for Traitors out that the one approach I might have received the present is that if I had been recruited.

At that time, you had loads of suspicion on you as a traitor. For those who had been recruited, how would you might have stored the suspicion off of you till the tip?

If we’re talking in hypotheticals, my first transfer, sadly, would have been to activate Rob. Throw him proper below the bus and be the solo traitor on the finish, rattling. That might have been savage, however Traitors is a person sport. Sure, there are traitors. Sure, there are faithfuls. And sure, you need to work collectively, however it’s a person sport. It’s a competitors sport present. And I’ll at all times respect folks for enjoying the sport onerous and taking part in the sport that they really feel is greatest for them. 

My journey has been one I’m extraordinarily happy with, and it has not been good.

Do you take into account your self a gamer? 

I undoubtedly assume I’m a gamer from different features of my life. I’ve been within the business lengthy sufficient now to grasp sure issues. You see this too, with loads of relationship-based reveals. Even Love Island. I’ve by no means skilled that. However there’s technique concerned. You need to make selections about what’s greatest in your life, what’s greatest in your relationships. Sure, it’s a love and romance present, however there’s some kind of competitors. I don’t even know if you happen to would name it a contest relationship actuality present, however there’s a competitors side to it. I’m happy with the illustration from Bachelor Nation over time. I believe everyone who’s stepped onto the present from that franchise has executed a superb job.

I need to speak in regards to the outfit with the blue sweater over your shoulders. Followers made loads of memes of that look. What was your response to that?

I stand by all of my wardrobe selections. If I’m going to go compete on a tv present with Alan Cumming in a fort in Scotland and do probably the most campy, theatrical homicide thriller efficiency, I need to have enjoyable with it. I labored with an unbelievable stylist to place collectively items that I felt comfy and assured in and that I may put on on sure days that perhaps I wanted to really feel good. My general temper board was preppy jock. I used to be undoubtedly feeling myself on the blue sweater that day. I noticed the memes on-line. You movie all day, and typically, you get scorching, so that you drape it over, after which it’d be over one shoulder. After which it might simply be off, after which it might be totally again on. You’re going inside and out of doors. Your physique temperature is altering. It was good to have the choice to both get heat or let it breathe.

Would you do Traitors once more?

Naturally, the competitor in me screams sure. Nonetheless, the place I’m at in my life as a father and a husband, I’ve been by way of a lot, and it takes a sure degree of vulnerability to return in entrance of the digicam. I kind of dip my toe again in, after which I’m like, “OK, I would like a couple of years off once more.” I might most likely take into account it. It simply could be a bigger dialog with my household the following time.