{"id":2337546,"date":"2026-03-19T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2337546"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:34:49","slug":"abc-cancels-bachelorette-season-with-taylor-frankie-paul-citing-2023-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/abc-cancels-bachelorette-season-with-taylor-frankie-paul-citing-2023-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC cancels ‘Bachelorette’ season with Taylor Frankie Paul, citing 2023 video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOS ANGELES<\/strong> \u2013 ABC has scrubbed the upcoming season of \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d starring Taylor Frankie Paul,<\/a> citing a newly released video from 2023.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s unprecedented cancellation of the already filmed season of the long-running reality television show comes days before it was to premiere, on Sunday. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of \u2018The Bachelorette\u2019 at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family,\u201d a statement from Disney Entertainment Television said.<\/p>\n

The statement appeared to reference a 2023 video of an altercation between Paul and Mortensen that was published by TMZ on Thursday. Paul was arrested in 2023 and charged with aggravated assault and other offenses, including domestic violence in the presence of a child. She pleaded guilty that August to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated assault; the other charges were dismissed. <\/p>\n

A police spokesperson in Draper City, Utah, told People magazine that there was an open domestic violence investigation of Paul and her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen, and that allegations have been made in both directions. Mortensen is the father of one of Paul’s three children.<\/p>\n

Representatives for Paul and Mortensen didn’t immediately return requests for comment. ABC’s statement didn’t include details on what the network planned to do with the show’s timeslot.<\/p>\n

Paul, who was promoting Season 22 as recently as Wednesday on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and on the red carpet before Sunday\u2019s Oscars telecast, was an unusual choice to helm \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d Unlike previous leads, the 31-year-old had not appeared on the \u201cBachelor\u201d franchise before \u2014 a departure from the typical practice of casting runners-up from previous seasons. <\/p>\n

Her selection did offer synergy, though, as she also stars on \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,\u201d a Hulu reality show. Both Hulu and ABC are owned by Disney. In a statement confirming her casting in October, ABC credited Paul with \u201cigniting \u2018MomTok\u2019 and going viral for pulling back the curtain on Salt Lake\u2019s soft-swinging scene.\u201d <\/p>\n

Paul became known as an influencer in the #MomTok community,<\/a> a group of women from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sharing their lives on TikTok. She made news when she announced, in 2022, that she had \u201cstepped out\u201d of an agreement with her husband in terms of relationships with other couples and they were getting divorced.<\/p>\n

Paul posted on Instagram in December that filming had wrapped on \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d which is hosted by Jesse Palmer. <\/p>\n

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Rancilio reported from Detroit. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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