
Bachelor Nation is still reeling over ABC’s cancellation of Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of The Bachelorette, which was supposed to premiere on the 2026 TV schedule on March 22. Now it’s not just the future of the already-filmed season that’s in question but the fate of the entire Bachelor dating franchise. For the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, however, the worst part of the whole situation has nothing to do with television.
The decision to scrap The Bachelorette Season 22 came on March 19, after video footage leaked of a 2023 fight between Taylor Frankie Paul and her then-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. In the video, she can be seen throwing metal chairs, and Mortensen is heard saying that Paul's daughter was “hit in the head” with one of them. Social media has been ablaze with opinions in the days that followed, and Paul appeared in the comments of one TikTok video to say: