{"id":2020395,"date":"2025-09-14T01:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2020395"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:53:24","slug":"taylor-frankie-pauls-ex-dakota-mortensen-maintains-hes-happy-about-her-bachelorette-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-frankie-pauls-ex-dakota-mortensen-maintains-hes-happy-about-her-bachelorette-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s Ex Dakota Mortensen Maintains He\u2019s \u2018Happy\u2019 About Her \u2018Bachelorette\u2019 Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives <\/i>star <strong>Dakota Mortensen<\/strong> has more to say about his ex-girlfriend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/taylor-frankie-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Taylor Frankie Paul;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Taylor Frankie Paul<\/strong><\/a> taking on a new role as the next <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/the-bachelorette\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bachelorette;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bachelorette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI am happy for Tay, and I hope she finds happiness,\u201d Dakota, 32, captioned a Friday, September 12, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dakotamortensen\/video\/7548995558392745229?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-8zfwIxG1hkc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TikTok;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TikTok<\/a> video, parodying Taylor\u2019s previous upload wishing to be the next Bachelor Nation lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC announced earlier this week that Taylor, 31, will now <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/bachelorette-returns-with-mormon-wives-taylor-frankie-paul-for-season-22\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:carry the Bachelorette mantle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">carry the Bachelorette mantle<\/a> and hand out roses next season. Months earlier, she teased her wish to join the show by lip-synching <strong>Lindsay Lohan<\/strong>\u2019s Super Bowl commercial about looking for love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIs this how it works to be the next Bachelor?\u201d Dakota asked in his own video, also mouthing along to Lohan\u2019s sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/taylor-frankie-paul-ex-dakota-025848858.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s Ex Dakota Mortensen Seemingly Reacts to Her Becoming the Next Bachelorette;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s Ex Dakota Mortensen Seemingly Reacts to Her Becoming the Next Bachelorette<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHi, my name is Lindsay and I\u2019m searching for love,\u201d Lohan, 39, originally said, in a parody of <i>The Bachelor. <\/i>\u201cI\u2019m recently single, I think, and I\u2019m looking for someone I can spend the rest of my life with \u2014 or at least the rest of my probation with. A little about me: I\u2019m an actress, a singer [and] an entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor recently told <i>Us Weekly <\/i>that she hadn\u2019t informed Dakota of her <i>Bachelorette<\/i> casting ahead of the Wednesday, September 10, \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d announcement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Taylor-Frankie-Paul-ABC-inline-178878_0131_v2.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1439\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/fqDrv99G6fo1yLkIbO8Pfg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTE0Mzk7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/us_magazine_896\/96686565c447fd9c4af8e23996641282\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Disney\/Michael Kirchoff<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI have not confirmed it with him. It\u2019s just not something that\u2019s been on, like, my priority list to confirm with him,\u201d she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/bachelorette-taylor-frankie-paul-on-mormon-contestants-getting-engaged-excl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:exclusively told Us.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">exclusively told <i>Us<\/i>.<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t know exactly how he\u2019ll react or feel, but he does know that we opened the gates of dating other people. [He\u2019ll] probably [be] sad. I assume that it\u2019s like, \u2018Whoa, she\u2019s gonna be dating people, a lot, and then also, in front of me,\u2019 and that\u2019s probably gonna be kind of hard to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor continued, \u201cI can\u2019t speak for him, but I\u2019d assume it wouldn\u2019t be the best news he\u2019s heard on that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor and Dakota share 17-month-old son Ever, while the MomTok influencer also coparents daughter Indy, 7, and son Ocean, 4, with ex-husband <strong>Tate Paul<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/mormon-wives-dakota-mortensen-reacts-174528867.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mormon Wives\u2019 Dakota Mortensen Reacts to Taylor Frankie Paul Revealing When They Last Had Sex;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Mormon Wives\u2019 Dakota Mortensen Reacts to Taylor Frankie Paul Revealing When They Last Had Sex<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Taylor starts her <i>Bachelorette <\/i>journey, she\u2019s not afraid to admit that she hopes she\u2019ll be engaged by the finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDefinitely, that\u2019s the goal here, and as my mom likes to say [that] I do fall in love quickly, and that\u2019s also the reason I did it,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cI always call myself a lover girl because I, like, fall for people and I have done that in the past. Obviously, I got married young, and the first guy I dated was my second baby daddy \u2014 so it was just very quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She added, \u201cI\u2019m going to take my time [and] get to know people. Maybe I learned things I didn\u2019t like or do like that I didn\u2019t even know. So I think this is gonna be really good for the long-term effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor\u2019s season of <i>The Bachelorette <\/i>airs in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Dakota Mortensen has more to say about his ex-girlfriend Taylor Frankie Paul taking on a new role as the next Bachelorette. \u201cI am happy for Tay, and I hope she finds happiness,\u201d Dakota, 32, captioned a Friday, September 12, TikTok video, parodying Taylor\u2019s previous upload wishing to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2020396,"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":[25173],"tags":[352928,368055,23209,29633,355054],"class_list":["post-2020395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bachelorette","tag-dakota-mortensen","tag-lindsay-lohan","tag-taylor","tag-taylor-frankie-paul"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Taylor-Frankie-Pauls-Ex-Dakota-Mortensen-Maintains-Hes-\u2018Happy-About.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020395","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=2020395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}