Colton Underwood Received Horrifying Death Threat Over ‘The Traitors’

Colton Underwood has confronted intense backlash from viewers of “The Traitors” since season 4 started airing in January 2026. Right this moment, the “Bachelor” alum is opening up about his expertise contained in the Scottish fortress, revealing that he has obtained terrifying messages from viewers relating to his position within the collection.

Warning: this text incorporates spoilers for “The Traitors,” season 4, episode 8. 

Talking with Variety, Underwood instantly addressed toxicity from this season’s viewers, thanking Peacock for issuing a statement and reminding the viewers to be variety to the present’s gamers. “I completely perceive the depth of rooting and being upset when your participant goes residence,” Underwood stated. Nevertheless, he stated there have been a “few strains” that had been crossed because the season progressed.

Underwood turned a focus of the present earlier within the season after co-star Michael Rapaport made a remark that many viewers interpreted as a slight in opposition to Underwood’s sexuality. Underwood stated that after Rapaport’s feedback aired, he obtained terrifying loss of life threats—one so surprising he despatched it to the present’s producers.

“… someone advised me to stay a gun up my a** and pull the set off and referred to as me the F phrase in it,” he stated. “That’s crossing the road.”

Underwood was murdered by Traitors Candiace Dillard Bassett and Rob Rausch firstly of episode 8. Whereas disappointing, Underwood appeared OK going out the way in which he did.

“I believe at that time of the sport, I knew the one method that I used to be going to make it to the tip was to get recruited,” he stated. “So both I used to be getting recruited or getting murdered. If I used to be going to exit, I’d quite have gone out murdered than banished, as a result of I believe a part of the sport and the enjoyable of it’s defending your self on the roundtable and holding your personal.”

Underwood added that being banished on the roundtable means an individual did not do a ok job defending themselves in opposition to the accusations. “So if I went out, I at all times wished to exit getting murdered,” he acknowledged.

All through the season, Underwood clashed with a number of gamers, together with “Massive Brother” legend Tiffany Mitchell and “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum Lisa Rinna. Though he did not win the collection, the daddy of 1 stated he is “proud” of how he performed.

Underwood described his gameplay as “intense,” calling himself the “final competitor.” He additionally shared that being a fan of the present has added an additional ingredient for him.

“So there’s weirdly part of me now that’s very excited to look at the remainder of the season as a fan once more, as an alternative of the depth during which I needed to watch myself on that present,” he added.

In response to The Blast, Rinna just lately opened up about her expertise filming the extraordinary actuality collection, which concluded in episode 7 when a majority of the remaining forged voted to get rid of her.

“I wished to go residence,” Rinna stated. “I may care much less at that time.”

Rinna’s daughter, Amelia Grey, reportedly stated that being in a state of affairs the place one has to lie and deceive for an prolonged interval can alter one’s mind-set. “That does one thing to your mind,” she stated.

Rinna agreed, explaining that it took her “a minute to sort of recalibrate.”