Taylor Frankie Paul was never going to save 'The Bachelorette.' Now she might destroy it.
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Reality star Taylor Frankie Paul was always the wrong choice for ABC's \
This season of "The Bachelorette" will go down in history, but not at all in the way ABC intended.
After TMZ surfaced a shocking, violent video of upcoming "Bachelorette" Taylor Frankie Paul, her ex-partner Dakota Mortensen and one of her children, ABC has pulled the plug on Season 22 of "The Bachelorette."
Paul, 31, who came to fame as the star of Hulu's reality show "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" (both Hulu and ABC are owned by Disney), was supposed to be an injection of drama, spice and relevance to the aging "Bachelor" franchise, at least from the perspective of the network and producer Warner Bros. The breakout personality among the "Mormon Wives," Paul has been a fount of drama, tension and viral moments for that series. Now her behavior, both on and off the screen, has disrupted two of Disney's biggest reality franchises: In addition to pulling "Bachelorette" off the air, Season 5 of "Mormon Wives" has paused filming amid Paul's legal entanglements.
How did we get here? "The Bachelorette" is part of ABC's 24-year-old "Bachelor" franchise that has become a TV institution, generated a fortune for the network and even led to real-life marriages and babies. How did it become the setting for one of the most unseemly controversies in the already-seedy history of reality TV? How did a grab for ratings and relevance merit risking the health of one TV show on a woman who already was arrested in the middle of filming of another? Where did ABC go wrong?
'The Bachelor' relishes in love and romance. 'Mormon Wives' is tasteless and vulgar. Taylor Frankie Paul should have never gotten her hands on the roses.
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