{"id":2346927,"date":"2026-03-26T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2346927"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:26:22","slug":"insiders-say-dancing-with-the-stars-could-replace-the-bachelorette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/insiders-say-dancing-with-the-stars-could-replace-the-bachelorette\/","title":{"rendered":"Insiders Say \u2018Dancing With the Stars&#8217; Could Replace \u2018The Bachelorette\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<div class=\"css-1jx1kps etlajd3\">\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section\" class=\"css-p1fz9n e1q3dcg6\">\n<h3 data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header\" class=\"css-1167i7y e1q3dcg5\">\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-wrapper\" data-collapsible-open=\"true\" class=\"css-lhm19 e1q3dcg0\"><span data-testid=\"iconRight\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-right\" class=\"css-1ep4808 e1q3dcg1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/caret-right-regular.a6ec664.svg\" alt=\"Caret Right\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h3>\n<div aria-hidden=\"false\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section-text\" class=\"css-nzvxqj e1q3dcg3\">\n<div class=\"css-ex91la etlajd2\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Sources report that ABC is \u201cscrambling\u201d to find programming that can replace The Bachelorette.<\/li>\n<li>Dancing With the Stars has offered to \u201cthrow something together\u201d on Sunday nights.<\/li>\n<li>Filming another Bachelorette season is \u201cnot at all being considered.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">ABC has reportedly been scrambling to figure out what will replace The Bachelorette on Sunday nights now that it\u2019s been pulled\u2014and so far, they\u2019ve aired American Idol. But apparently that\u2019s not necessarily a permanent solution.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cThe execs at Disney, many of whom are newer in their roles and did not want to step into their new positions with this mess, are livid,\u201d a source tells <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/16135274\/bachelorette-replacement-taylor-frankie-paul-season-canceled-idol-dwts\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/16135274\/bachelorette-replacement-taylor-frankie-paul-season-canceled-idol-dwts\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Sun\" data-node-id=\"1.1\" class=\"body-link css-ohbdae emevuu60\">The Sun<\/a>. \u201cThe network is obsessively scrambling to find programming to fill in the Sunday night timeslots. There\u2019s already been dozens of crisis talks and last-minute meetings amongst different show crews to see how they can remotely salvage this situation. They\u2019ve talked with other ABC shows to see what can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">It\u2019s possible that Idol could \u201cmove to two nights a week for the remainder of the season\u201d but apparently \u201cThe DWTS crew has already offered to throw something together last minute so they\u2019re weighing those options now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">As for rumors that The Traitors star Maura Higgins could be tapped to film a live season of The Bachelorette that would go into production pretty much immediately, The Sun\u2019s sources say the show simply isn\u2019t coming back.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cFinding another Bachelorette and filming a new season is not at all being considered right now,\u201d the source insists. \u201cThe amount of money it takes to put a whole season together is too high and it would take too long to scramble that together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Okay, but the Maura pivot is brilliant so holding out hope!<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"css-pc3nh9 e94w1mj10\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k0\"\/><span class=\"css-8lle59 e94w1mj8\">Related Story<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k1\"\/><\/h6>\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.cosmopolitan.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources report that ABC is \u201cscrambling\u201d to find programming that can replace The Bachelorette. Dancing With the Stars has offered to \u201cthrow something together\u201d on Sunday nights. Filming another Bachelorette season is \u201cnot at all being considered.\u201d ABC has reportedly been scrambling to figure out what will replace The Bachelorette on Sunday nights now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2346928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[453862,274717,455338,285977,285684,441834,455337,440065],"class_list":["post-2346927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-collection-bachelor-nation","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-9166870d-fcce-4529-9b53-425548fc658a","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-dwts-could-replace-the-bachelorette","tag-subsection-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Insiders-Say-\u2018Dancing-With-the-Stars-Could-Replace-\u2018The-Bachelorette.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346927","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=2346927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346929,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346927\/revisions\/2346929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}