When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n Billboard for ABC\u2019s \u2018The Bachelorette\u2019 featuring Taylor Frankie Paul. | Credit: Highfive \/ Bauer-Griffin \/ GC Images<\/p>\n ABC on Thursday canceled its ready-to-broadcast 22nd season of \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d hours after TMZ posted a leaked video<\/a> of this season\u2019s star, Taylor Frankie Paul, attacking the father of one of her three children in 2023. The season premiere had been scheduled for this Sunday. Paul, a breakout star of the Hulu series<\/a> \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,\u201d is facing a separate domestic assault investigation involving the same former partner, Dakota Mortensen, police in Draper City, Utah, said earlier this week.<\/p>\n The new police investigation also prompted Hulu \u2014 which, like ABC, is owned by Disney \u2014 to pause production of the fifth season of \u201cSecret Lives.\u201d ABC \u201chad appeared to be committed to continuing its plans\u201d to air \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d The New York Times<\/a> said. But the video of Paul kicking, hitting and throwing metal chairs at Mortensen in front of her 5-year-old daughter \u201crapidly shifted\u201d the \u201ccalculus\u201d for Disney, trumping the \u201csignificant financial hit\u201d the company will take for pulling the season.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d and its offshoots<\/a> \u201care no stranger to controversy,\u201d The Washington Post<\/a> said, but this is the \u201cfirst time an entire season of the show was canceled before it aired.\u201d ABC had \u201cheavily promoted\u201d the show, \u201chyping the \u2018Secret Lives\u2019 tie-in\u201d and counting on Paul\u2019s 6 million TikTok followers to boost viewership. Unfortunately for the network, its \u201cbet big on a Paul-fronted season\u201d to reverse plummeting \u201cratings and cultural relevance\u201d was \u201cover before it started,\u201d The Wall Street Journal<\/a> said.<\/p>\n ABC will \u201cnot move forward with the new season of \u2018The Bachelorette\u2019 at this time\u201d in light of the \u201cnewly released video,\u201d said a Disney spokesperson. It was \u201cnot immediately clear whether Paul\u2019s \u2018Bachelorette\u2019 season would air at a later date,\u201d the Journal said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. 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