Fri. April 16, 2021
Out Olympian Gus Kenworthy will serve as Colton Underwood's "gay guide" in an upcoming Netflix reality series.
Variety broke the news on the same day that Underwood, a former bachelor on ABC's The Bachelor, announced that he's gay.
(Related: Bachelor star Colton Underwood comes out gay.)
The series is described as "focusing on Underwood living his life publicly as a gay man."
"[A]n insider tells Variety that Olympian Gus Kenworthy will appear in the series, acting as a guide, of sorts, for Underwood," Variety wrote.
The outlet added that the project is already in production.
"Underwood's identity as an athlete and gay man is said to be a theme in the new Netflix show," Variety wrote.
Kenworthy, a 29-year-old freestyle skier, came out on the cover of ESPN Magazine following his silver medal win at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
(Related: Gay celebrities, including Billy Eichner, Dan Levy, react to Colton Underwood's coming out.)
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