The First Time, Colton Underwood
The First Time, Colton Underwood
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The First Time
Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV

Bestseller

Author: Colton Underwood

Narrator: Colton Underwood

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2020


Synopsis

With a new afterword about Colton’s battle with Covid-19 and breakup, this New York Times bestseller from former football player and star of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette is “full of the kind of juicy details ‘The Bachelor’ franchise enthusiasts yearn for” (HuffPost).

Before Colton Underwood captured the hearts of millions on The Bachelor, he was a goofy, socially awkward, overweight adolescent who succeeded on the football field while struggling with personal insecurities off it. An All American gridiron hero, he was also a complex, sometimes confused, soft-hearted romantic wondering how these contradictions fit together. Old-fashioned and out of step with the swipe right dating culture of today, he was saving the most intimate part of life for the love of his life. If only he could find her…

Now, in The First Time, Colton opens up about how he came to find himself and true love at the same time via the Bachelor franchise. Unencumbered by cameras and commercial breaks, he delivers a surprisingly raw, endearing, and seriously juicy account of his journey through The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise, and The Bachelor. He opens up about being dumped by Becca, his secret dalliance with Tia, what it was like to be the world’s most famous virgin, his behind-the-scenes conflicts with production, and how his on-camera responsibilities as the Bachelor nearly destroyed him after he knew he had already fallen in love with Cassie.

A memoir for Bachelor Nation and anyone who believes in the magic of love, The First Time “is a thoughtful exploration into what it means to discover oneself” (USA TODAY).

About Colton Underwood

Colton Underwood was a linebacker and a tight end in the NFL from 2014 to 2016. A fan favor­ite on season fourteen of The Bachelorette, he starred in The Bachelor on season twenty-three of the show. Underwood is the founder of the Colton Underwood Legacy Foundation, a charity to support cystic fibrosis, with which his cousin Harper was diagnosed as a baby. Born in Indianapolis and raised in Illinois, he now lives in Denver, CO.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia

This is an okay memoir that will probably please Bachelor fans who already liked Colton Underwood but is unlikely to interest anyone else. I found it fairly dull, especially the first half that is basically his whitewashed biography. We get no real sense of what his family was like, though I get a s......more

Goodreads review by Sammi

Yeah I was just in it for the gossip......more

Goodreads review by Julian

I am gay so I was intrigued to see how newly-out Colton would portray himself in a memoir about losing his straight virginity, written while he still identified as straight and in a hetero relationship with a girl he met on the bachelor. In that respect, The First Time is a kind of anthropology on s......more

Goodreads review by Jenna

This was everything I expected it to be - a mostly surface level story of his life and experience with reality tv. But it was a great, mindless quarantine read. It didn’t make me like him more or less. Didn’t surprise me except for a few little tidbits he shared about the show (Demi scared him, he w......more