Lisa Rinna Revives Colton Underwood Stalking Past On Traitors

The Moment

Lisa Rinna is not just playing the game on Traitors, she is digging into the archives.

In late January 2026, the 62-year-old reality veteran jumped into a Threads exchange after a fan poked fun at fellow contestant Colton Underwood for accusing her of being a Traitor on the latest episode of the Peacock series.

The fan posted a meme of Rinna in full Real Housewives of Beverly Hills glory, paired with her infamous line about people doing coke in a bathroom. Rinna popped into the comments and, as if speaking directly to Underwood, wrote: “Let’s talk about you being a stalker…”

Lisa Rinna calls ‘Traitors’ rival Colton Underwood a ‘stalker’ after learning about his scandalous past https://t.co/SS6dmjeQtb pic.twitter.com/3FKVkoLEtI

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She doubled down when a pop culture podcaster joked that the Traitors reunion was going to be good. Rinna replied, “Careful what you wish for you just might get it.” Translation: she is bringing receipts.

A few days earlier, she had already reacted under a TikTok explaining Underwood’s past, dropping a simple, stunned: “Wait what?!”

The past in question: a 2020 restraining order that Underwood’s ex, Cassie Randolph, filed against him in Los Angeles. In court documents from that time, Randolph accused the former athlete and Bachelor lead of stalking and harassing her with unsettling text messages and allegedly planting a tracking device on her car. A judge granted a temporary restraining order and required him to stay at least 100 yards away.

Randolph later dismissed the restraining order with prejudice in November 2020, after the pair privately resolved her concerns. Underwood publicly said then that he believed she acted in good faith by filing.

Now, years later, that whole saga has been yanked into the Traitors chat by Rinna with one word: stalker.

The Take

I love a messy reality crossover as much as anyone, but this one sits in that uncomfortable space where camp TV collides with real-world fear.

On one hand, Rinna is doing what Rinna does: turning conflict into a storyline and using public history as ammunition. In a game literally built on suspicion and betrayal, calling out someone’s documented past is, strategically, fair play. She is basically saying, You want to talk about who is untrustworthy here? We can go there.

But we are not just talking about a rude tweet from 2016. We are talking about a restraining order, a legal process that exists because one person says, I do not feel safe. Bringing that into a reality-game feud can feel like dragging a police file into a costume party.

There is also the power of the word she chose. Stalker is not just a shady label; it is language people use for trauma. Yes, Randolph’s court filings in 2020 alleged stalking and harassment. Yes, a judge granted a temporary order. And yes, the case was later dropped after a private agreement and Underwood’s public apology. All of those things can be true at once.

So is Rinna “exposing” something viewers did not know, or just weaponizing something that was already publicly processed and resolved? For younger Bachelor fans who watched it play out in real time, this is old news. For a chunk of Traitors viewers, especially those who skipped the dating-show years, it might be a genuine shock.

What I keep coming back to is this: reality TV has become our group chat, and group chats love a callback. But at what point does dredging up someone’s darkest chapter stop being accountability and start being a rerun of someone else’s trauma for entertainment value?

Rinna knows exactly how to push a narrative. Underwood, for his part, has spent the last few years publicly owning mistakes, coming out, and trying to pivot his story. Seeing those two arcs collide on a game show is peak 2020s fame culture: no chapter of your life ever really ends, it just waits to be recast in the next franchise.

Receipts

Confirmed:

• In January 2026, Lisa Rinna replied to a Threads post about Traitors by writing, “Let’s talk about you being a stalker…”, aimed at fellow contestant Colton Underwood, according to screenshots and social media coverage at the time.
• Rinna also responded on Threads to a comment about the Traitors reunion with, “Careful what you wish for you just might get it,” teasing on-camera fallout.
• Earlier that week, Rinna commented “Wait what?!” under a TikTok explaining Underwood’s past restraining order, indicating she was newly reacting to that information.
• Cassie Randolph filed for a restraining order against Colton Underwood in September 2020 in Los Angeles County, alleging stalking and harassment, including unsettling messages and an alleged tracking device on her vehicle, according to court filings summarized in contemporaneous reports.
• A judge granted a temporary restraining order in 2020 requiring Underwood to stay at least 100 yards away from Randolph, per those same court records.
• Randolph dismissed the restraining order with prejudice in November 2020 after the pair reached a private agreement, and Underwood publicly stated he believed she acted in good faith and that her concerns had been addressed.

Unverified / context we do not have:

• We do not know exactly when Rinna first learned the legal details of the 2020 case; we only see when she reacted online.
• We do not know what was said in any private conversations between Underwood and Randolph when they resolved the matter.
• We do not yet know how much of this history will be explicitly discussed on the Traitors reunion, or how producers will frame it.

Backstory (For Casual Readers)

If you are not fully bilingual in reality TV, here is the quick primer. Lisa Rinna is a longtime soap actress turned Real Housewives of Beverly Hills lightning rod, known for stirring the pot and then asking for more spoons. Colton Underwood is a former football player who led a season of The Bachelor, pursued contestant Cassie Randolph on and off screen, and later came out as gay in a widely covered 2021 TV interview and documentary series.

After their 2020 breakup, Randolph sought legal protection through a restraining order that laid out serious allegations of stalking and harassment. The temporary order was granted, then dropped a couple of months later once the exes reached a private agreement, with Underwood issuing a public apology and statement of support for her decision to file.

Now both Rinna and Underwood are competing on Traitors, a reality competition that mixes celebrities and other personalities in a Scottish castle, asking them to sniff out hidden saboteurs while forming alliances and backstabbing each other for prize money. Think murder mystery weekend meets trust-fall nightmare.

What’s Next

The immediate thing to watch is how much of this makes it into the actual show. Rinna’s posts strongly hint that the reunion taping will not shy away from Underwood’s past, at least from her side of the couch.

Producers love a redemption arc almost as much as they love a pile-on, so the edit will matter. Does Underwood address the restraining order and his behavior in the same breath as he talks about gameplay? Does Rinna soften her language once they are face-to-face, or does she double down on that stalker label?

As of the late-January 2026 coverage that surfaced these comments, Underwood had not publicly responded to Rinna’s specific posts. He has, in earlier years, expressed remorse over his actions toward Randolph and said he learned from the experience, so there is a chance he leans into that growth narrative again.

For viewers, the bigger question might outlast the reunion: when a serious real-life incident has already been processed in court and in the press, how many times should it be replayed for sport? Accountability does not have an expiration date, but exploitation probably should.

Your turn: When reality stars compete on a new show, do you think their past off-camera scandals are fair game for strategy and shade, or should there be some lines everyone agrees not to cross?