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ABC has scrubbed the upcoming play of "The Bachelorette," starring Taylor Frankie Paul, citing a recently released video from 2023.
Thursday's unprecedented cancellation of the already filmed play of the long-running world tv amusement comes days earlier it was to premiere, connected Sunday.
"In airy of the recently released video conscionable surfaced today, we person made the determination to not determination guardant with the caller play of 'The Bachelorette' astatine this time, and our absorption is connected supporting the family," a Disney Entertainment Television spokesperson said successful a connection to CBS News.
The connection appeared to notation a 2023 video of an altercation betwixt Paul and her ex-partner, Dakota Mortensen, that was published by TMZ connected Thursday. Paul was arrested successful 2023 and charged with aggravated assault and different offenses, including home unit successful the beingness of a child. She pleaded blameworthy that August to a misdemeanor complaint of aggravated assault; the different charges were dismissed.
A constabulary spokesperson successful Draper City, Utah, told People mag that determination was an unfastened home unit probe of Paul and Mortensen, and that allegations person been made successful some directions. Mortensen is the begetter of 1 of Paul's 3 children.
Representatives for Paul and Mortensen didn't instantly instrumentality The Associated Press' requests for comment. ABC's connection didn't see details connected what the web planned to bash with the show's clip slot.
Taylor Frankie Paul appears astatine the Oscars successful Los Angeles connected March 15, 2026.
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Paul, who was promoting Season 22 arsenic precocious arsenic Wednesday connected ABC's "Good Morning America" and connected the reddish carpet earlier Sunday's Oscars telecast, was an antithetic prime to helm "The Bachelorette." Unlike erstwhile leads, the 31-year-old had not appeared connected the "Bachelor" franchise earlier — a departure from the emblematic signifier of casting runners-up from erstwhile seasons.
Her enactment did connection synergy, though, arsenic she besides stars connected "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives," a Hulu world show. Both Hulu and ABC are owned by Disney. In a connection confirming her casting successful October, ABC credited Paul with "igniting 'MomTok' and going viral for pulling backmost the curtain connected Salt Lake's soft-swinging scene."
Paul became known arsenic an influencer successful the #MomTok community, a radical of women from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sharing their lives connected TikTok. She made quality erstwhile she announced successful 2022 that she had "stepped out" of an statement with her hubby successful presumption of relationships with different couples, and they were getting divorced.
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" premiered successful 2024. While Season 4 was released past week, filming connected Season 5 had already paused implicit the investigation.
"It was a determination that each of america girls came up with," Paul's co-star Mikayla Matthews said Wednesday connected Instagram successful effect to a instrumentality question astir the accumulation freeze. "We didn't consciousness comfy filming with everything that was happening."
Paul posted connected Instagram successful December that filming had wrapped connected "The Bachelorette," which is hosted by Jesse Palmer.
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