Reality Check: Colton Brown-Underwood, husband welcome baby

“The Bachelor” season 23 star Colton Underwood, now Colton Brown-Underwood, and his husband, political strategist Jordan Brown-Underwood, announced last week they have become parents.

“Our world is a million times better with you in it. Bishop Colton Brown-Underwood September 26th, 2024,” they wrote in a joint Instagram post. A color image showed the couple posing happily with the infant, and three black-and-white photos showed the baby in close-up.

Colton Brown-Underwood, 32, had dated Olympic gold-medal gymnast Aly Raisman for several months from 2016 to 2017 before becoming a contestant on “The Bachelorette” season 14 the following year. He went to appear in the cast of the spinoff “Bachelor in Paradise,” and in 2019, the fan favorite became the star of “The Bachelor.”

Underwood, a former Illinois State football standout who went on to join the practice squads of the NFL's San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles and Oakland Raiders from 2014 to 2016, came out as gay in April 2021. He went on to meet his future husband later that year, and the two became engaged in February 2022.

They married in May 2023, and in February of this year went public with their quest for fatherhood via surrogacy.

Congratulatory comments on the post came from such Bachelor Nation alumni as Ali Fedotowsky Manno, Trista Rehn Sutter, Jason Tartick and former host Chris Harrison, plus actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kate Hudson and Amanda Seyfried, supermodel Paulina Porizkova and TV personality Lauren Zima.

A subsequent joint post contained a video of Jordan Brown-Underwood bottle-feeding the baby, set to The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun.” “Our sweet Bishop,” the new parents wrote.

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