Twelve months ago, Disney’s reality TV chief Rob Mills had just made a major statement. Deep in the Hollywood hills at a sprawling estate with a private lake, he was surrounded by the stars of his hit shows: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, The Kardashians, Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor franchise and even Alex Cooper, the star of the hit podcast Call Her Daddy who exec produced Love Overboard.
It highlighted the breadth of its unscripted slate across ABC and Hulu and threw down the gauntlet for its rivals that also have successful reality universes such as Bravo and Netflix.
Then came 2026. Mormon Wives was forced to pause production on Season 5 as a result of domestic assault allegations against its main star, Taylor Frankie Paul, and these same allegations, coupled with video of her throwing a metal stool at her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen in
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