ABC pulls Taylor Frankie Paul's season of 'Bachelorette' amid fallout over domestic abuse allegations

Several articles are describing the finger-pointing has already begun over how she was cast in the first place

This ain't an allegation: She **is an abuser**.

how was she not charged for child abuse or neglect for that? That is so f'd up.

Not that it makes a difference, but Dakota isn’t her husband. He’s the dad of Taylor’s youngest son.

Good lord. She should be in prison for shit like that and all ABC did was prop her up and make everyone love her.

The President raped kids and is still allowed to do things like start endless wars. This country has no real societallly-defined idea of what constitutes appropriate behavior anymore.

same old story. over confident producers think they can control her. but I say, she got dem crazy eyes. run, mf, run.

She also pled guilty to felony aggravated assault for this incident and is currently on probation. So, not allegations any way you cut it.

Allegedly Taylor allegedly beat the alleged shit out of Dakota in front of their alleged child. Allegedly.

The video is from 2023 where she was charged, plead guilty, and is currently serving probation. There are more recent allegations from February.

There are new allegations now. She plead guilty to the charges from the 2023 incident that’s in the video going around again. I’m not sure what the new allegations are about exactly but I’m pretty sure it’s DV stuff again

Yeah the ads of her clawing out of the Barbie box. She's on the cover of magazines at checkout right now. This is wild. What a f*** up 

Yeah, the studio/network are already fighting over who has to eat the cost and will hopefully fine/sue her for breach of contract. Glad their thirst for ratings came back and bit them in the ass!

Well, Disney was hoping that everyone had forgotten about this... Her arrest was public record back in 2023. Before even a single season of 'Secret Lives yada yada' aired and well before this season of Bachelorette was planned. Seems like all reality tv ever does is give objectively terrible people a platform.

Yes, and they had a partnership with Cinnabon that’s been cancelled already, and usually there is a LOT of tourism promo and various companies paying to be featured.

It was apparently supposed to premiere this weekend. Massive clusterfuck.

Cinnabon was the first one to pull ads & promotion. Jimmy Fallon cancelled her appearance. And now? Finally! ABC is doing something.

Especially when this shit was already known well before casting… yikes

Serial killer shit

Sean William Scott is innocent until proven guilty

You joke, but nearly every person I meet in the hospital with a name like John Richard... is an uncontrollable menace. I imagine 3 first names really is some serial killer shit. My pet theory on this is that somewhere in the family history the last name was changed/dropped to avoid a charge, and that naughty gene just kept getting passed down.

I bet she even prefers Miracle Whip over mayonnaise too

You don't take a video the first time you get beat. You take a video after getting beat the 5th 6th 7th time etc.

Yea it was. I went in expecting something.....but not that. That was hard to watch. She put her entire weight into those stool throws and was beating the ever living f*** out of him. I like to think I have a decent pain tolerance, but some of those hits made me wince empathetically.

Reportedly in the tens of millions. They finished shooting on the show so all of the expenses for crews, travel, lodging, etc is spent. They have deals with hotel chains, resorts, airlines, etc where they get paid in exposure….ABC/Warner Bros are going to have to pay that back now. There’s also all of the post production people they’ve contracted to edit and finish the season that are now going to lose their jobs. TBD on if they still get paid if the show is cancelled mid contract but most of those are union jobs I believe so seems like they’d get paid. Then you also add in all of the hours and hours of programming this was going to take up in the air they’d sold ads against. That’s all gone now too. This could easily be enough to end the entire franchise. Franchise had been shedding viewers for years, gonna be tough to bounce back from this. EDIT: Oh! And don’t forget lawyer fees! Soooo many billable hours about to happen.

TMZ said the average cost was -2mil per episode.

NBC should pick her up for “B**** Hunter”!

She gonna try to turn the tables on Dakota. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a manipulative a******. But that video exists, and it’s indefensible 

There’s already lots of accusations of who let things slide, but apparently they were so excited for the mess/crossover viewership that they rushed past a lot of the deep dives they’d normally do for a show like this - they never looked for/asked for the video or police report, so all they were operating with was “yeah she’s pretty crazy, she was found guilty but sentenced to probation and she and her lawyers swear it was a mutual fight/misunderstanding that got out of hand, and he had better lawyers”. The chair throwing and hitting her kid were technically still allegations and she swore everything was blown way out of proportion/untrue. They knew she was a mess, and even the promos were emphasizing what an absolute mess this season was gonna be (her ignoring the format of the show, wanting to go back on her decisions, the men saying “if she tries to keep me I’ll say no”), and hinting at “she’s sweet, but if you get on her bad side she’s really intense” or something along those lines. Then she was on Good Morning America, and when asked a complete softball question, said a bunch of gibberish about it “being hard on her family” or something. If just the police report had been all that came out, and she had been able to respond to even slightly coherently when asked to talk about it, I absolutely think they still would have gone ahead. But between the video/full police report being public, and her ABSOLUTE failure to respond coherently on GMA (which was probably gonna be one of the friendlier promo appearances she’d be making), there was no longer any way for them to pass it off as accusations or just talk or taken out of context (though that is still her excuse).

She wasn't married to Dakota. He's just a baby daddy. The husband she divorced awhile ago

AFAIK she and this partner, Dakota, were never married, they share a kid and coparent / occasionally sleep together.

So my wife is a fan of the show and the tl;dr is, they are getting divorced because of his cheating and her chair throwing and similar things. Even though they broke up they kept banging which made things very toxic. Because on paper they are divorcing and was the hot thing in reality TV she was on the Bachelorette.

They weren’t married

Just when Bob Iger pulled the rip cord and parachutes his way out. "Bwahaha, that shit was MY idea!"

Not just “I’m angry” crazy, but muttering to yourself in a dissociative state crazy.

Allegations? Video? She plead guilty to a freaking felony. 

This happened before The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and that show is a hit, so they probably thought they were fine.

People aren't going on these shows looking for love, they're looking for their 15 minutes

We shouldn’t judge those men without knowing what the zip line situation was at the bachelorette house.

The mugshot eyes are on a whole other level.

One of the previews did have a guy saying he'd reject a rose from her

Nah basically all of them just want to be on TV, do the fun excursions, and have sex with her, then use the fact they were on this show to help them find someone they want to be with 

>three kids by 2 different ~~men~~ women, with a ~~domestic violence~~ sexual assault conviction (sentenced to 3 years probation) who starred in a previous reality TV show Americans seem to love this particular personal history, to be fair.

There will still be people who question what happened before the video and say she was justified because he pushed her to do this lol

>Same thing for that ridiculous 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' show There were a couple of them on Dancing With The Stars too. Why does ABC keep pushing these people on us?