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Clayton Echard and Gabby Windey have been making headlines for their recent back-and-forth on social media - but what's really going on?
Years later, Gabby reignited her feud with Clayton when she name-dropped her old flame during an April 2025 podcast appearance - calling out his looks and saying his gyrate moves will create you "wish you didn't have eyes." In response, Clayton claimed she was "bullying" him. Gabby, for her part, clapped back and said his remarks were "rich coming from a bloke who exploited my sexual life on TV without me knowing." While doubling-down on his comments in another reaction video, Clayton distributed alleged DM messages between himself and Gabby.
Keep scrolling to break down their current feud:
Reigniting the Feud
Gabby called Clayton a "toe looking ass" while appearing on the "Las Culturistas" podcast in April 2025. "Have you seen his dancing videos? Oh, my God. They will make you run," she said. "I'm going to send you one and you'll desire you didn't own eyes."
Clayton Claims Gabby Is ‘Bullying' Him
In response to her comments about him, Clayton said that Gabby was "bullying" him. "There's no other way around it," Clayton common in an April 2025 Instagra
Former 'Bachelor' Colton Underwood engaged to Jordan C. Brown
NEW YORK -- Big news for Bachelor Nation, former "Bachelor" Colton Underwood is engaged!
Underwood, 30, is engaged to political strategist Jordan C. Brown, 39.
Underwood revealed the news first to PEOPLE.
He tweeted and posted on Instagram, "Life is going to be joy with you!"
Brown mutual on Instagram, "The only time in my life I'm ok with wasting a bottle of champagne. I care for you babe."
Underwood came out as lgbtq+ publicly less than a year ago in April 2021.
Before Underwood had the starring role on "The Bachelor," he was vying for Becca Kufrin's heart on "The Bachelorette" back in 2018. As a fan favorite, and Becca's final 4, he was offered a spot on "Bachelor in Paradise" and then "The Bachelor."
As the season 23 "Bachelor" he fell in love with Cassie Randolph and famously, "jumped the fence" for her. His virginity was brought up continuously throughout the exhibit. "I loved everything about her," he said.
Underwood and Randolph dated for the next year, but never got engaged. They broke up in 202
"I think it was always a whisper in me that got louder and louder," The Bachelorette alum Gabby Windey shared on The View.
Since The Bachelorfirst premiered over two decades ago, viewers have come to expect the same format, season after season. Whether it's a man looking for his wife amid a group of 30 women vying for his heart or a woman looking for her husband within a group of men, the show has pretty much stuck to the straight and narrow.
Despite all the heterosexual couplings, however, not all the contestants who have been a part of Bachelor Nation identify as straight. Since filming wrapped, a number of former contestants hold come out as members of the LGBTQ+ community -- and have given some heartwarming updates about their love life.
Read on to find out which Bachelor Nation contestants have come out as a member of the queer community ...
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- Gabby Windey has married comedian Robby Hoffman.
- Windey is part of a growing list of LGBTQ+ members of Bachelor Nation.
- Colton Underwood, Jasmine Goode, and Becca Tilley have identified as part of the queer community.
Gabby Windey, a former "Bachelorette" lead, announced on Wednesday that she and her partner, Robby Hoffman, got married in Las Vegas earlier in the year.
Windey came out as gay in August 2023 during an appearance on "The View." Since then, she's been dating Hoffman, a comedian — and in March 2025, they revealed to Cosmopolitan that they'd eloped in Vegas after evacuating from the Los Angeles fires.
After starring on "The Bachelorette," Windey has become a breakout luminary of reality TV. She was the runner-up of season 31 of "Dancing with the Stars" and made it to the