on Monday. “Starting 2022 off with my best friend, teammate and now fiancé is something I never thought was going to be possible.” Underwood, 30, and Brown, 39, were first linked as a couple last September.
They were spotted together in Hawaii several months after he had completed filming for his reality series, Netflix’swhich documented his struggle with self-acceptance before he publicly came out in April 2021. Underwood, a former professional football player, told, “I was struggling with my sexuality but I had such a level of fear over being gay. Now that I’ve been out to myself for a year, it’s the healthiest and happiest I’ve ever felt. And there is nothing I would ever want to be but gay.