{"id":2011089,"date":"2025-09-10T09:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2011089"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:06:04","slug":"the-bachelorette-finds-its-season-22-lead-in-mormon-wives-star-taylor-frankie-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-bachelorette-finds-its-season-22-lead-in-mormon-wives-star-taylor-frankie-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Bachelorette\u2019 Finds Its Season 22 Lead in \u2018Mormon Wives\u2019 Star Taylor Frankie Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d star Taylor Frankie Paul will be the next lead of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Frankie Paul, who is best known for rising to fame on MomTok before starring on the Hulu reality series, will headline the 22nd season of \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d set to air in 2026. The season will follow the release of \u201cMormon Wives\u201d Season 3 on Nov. 13. The reality star is 31 and is a single mother of three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The casting was announced on Alex Cooper\u2019s \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast whose teaser videos on Tuesday afternoon led fans to speculate about Frankie Paul\u2019s casting after Cooper teased that the new lead hadn\u2019t yet been in the \u201cBachelor\u201d franchise and is a part of another reality show.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/join-pro\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=site&amp;utm_campaign=articlePROpromo&amp;utm_id=070825\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Frankie Paul\u2019s casting comes amid a shakeup for \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d which took a break in 2025 after not airing during its typical summer slot. \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d Season 22 will air prior to \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d Season 30, TheWrap has learned, as the franchise scales back the frequency of its seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Frankie Paul follows in the footsteps of the most recent \u201cBachelorette\u201d Jenn Tran, who led Season 21 of the ABC reality dating show during summer 2025. She isn\u2019t the only \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d star expanding her horizons within the Disney family, with Whitney Leavitt and Jen Affleck set to appear on the upcoming season of \u201cDancing with the Stars,\u201d premiering Tuesday, Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before Frankie Paul\u2019s season of \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d airs, the franchise will launch the second season of \u201cThe Golden Bachelor,\u201d which will be led by former NFLer Mel Owens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d is produced by Warner Horizon Unscripted Television, a Warner Bros. Television Group company, with Scott Teti, who showran \u201cBachelor in Paradise\u201d Season 10, serving as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/the-bachelorette-season-22-taylor-frankie-paul-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018The Bachelorette\u2019 Finds Its Season 22 Lead in \u2018Mormon Wives\u2019 Star Taylor Frankie Paul;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018The Bachelorette\u2019 Finds Its Season 22 Lead in \u2018Mormon Wives\u2019 Star Taylor Frankie Paul<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d star Taylor Frankie Paul will be the next lead of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d Frankie Paul, who is best known for rising to fame on MomTok before starring on the Hulu reality series, will headline the 22nd season of \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d set to air in 2026. The season will follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[352928,367765,355055],"class_list":["post-2011089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bachelorette","tag-frankie-paul","tag-mormon-wives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ryan-Reynolds-Dwayne-Johnson-Tessa-Thompson-and-More-Set-Panels.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}