After The Bachelorette was pulled by ABC on Thursday — just three days before its scheduled premiere — it raised major questions about the franchise. But what about the men?
Contestants often take time away from their families, leave jobs and pause their lives to appear on the series, which was set to star Taylor Frankie Paul in season 22.
The decision followed reports earlier in the week of an alleged domestic incident involving Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, with whom she shares a son. After TMZ published a video Thursday tied to Paul’s 2023 arrest — to which she later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, as documented on her other reality series, Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives — the network opted not to move forward.
“In light of the newly released video that surfaced today, we have made the decision
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