Bachelorette season pulled after abuse allegations

She pled guilty to aggravated assault from an incident in 2023? Do these companies and productions do background checks on their “talent,” or just let it ride until videos surface? Jesus.

The background for folks not in the know: \- Taylor Frankie Paul (the bachelorette) is the de facto leader of a group called "Mom Tok" - a group of Mormon wives who do tik tok dances. \- Mom Tok became embroiled in a swinging scandal involving Taylor, her (now ex-) husband, her friend Miranda and Miranda's (now ex-) husband. \- The swinging scandal was leveraged into starting a reality TV show - "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" in which a bunch of people behave in absolutely unMorman ways. Miranda is now also on this show. Messy messy. \- As the show got bigger, the women branched out. Two of them (Whitney and Jen Affleck) were on the recent season of Dancing With the Stars \- Taylor having broken up with her husband got into an incredibly toxic relationship with a man named Dakota. She became pregnant and they had a son. He keeps popping back up on the show, they fight, they have sex. \- She signs up to be the Bachelorette. Dakota reportedly contacted production of the show and told them she's too much trouble, they ignored him \- The current season of Secret Lives has the two women on Dancing with the Stars and Taylor preparing for the Bachelorette. Despite this, and despite being broken up, she's repeatedly lost it when Dakota is involved with any other women (and then they have sex) Anyone with half a brain cell could have seen this cancellation coming, unfortunately.

That video was horrific. It was already hard to watch seeing another human being punched on like that, but when the child cried out for "mommy", it broke me. I couldn't watch anymore. She **hit her child with a metal barstool** and was still only focused on hurting the man and not comforting her daughter. It was vile, despicable.

I saw the video it's tough to watch. B**** is throwing chairs and having a moody meltdown. Her kid's right there and was even hit by a chair. Control yourself lady. Geez

Allegations? That shit happened

Guys, I don’t think momtok can survive this!

The NFL said in a statement that she’ll be suspended for 2 games this upcoming season.

No, incorrect. Disney canceled the season AFTER the VIDEO BECAME PUBLIC. The video: Ms Paul, intoxicated, attacked her partner repeatedly. She also threw several chairs at him which injured her partner and also injured her child. Disney already knew about the drunken attacks, the multiple injuries, her arrest and her charges. Ms Paul entered into a sweetheart plea deal: pleading guilty to ONLY 1 felony and is out on probation for 3 years; other charges waived. She still has custody of all 3 children, including the one she hit in the head with a chair. If Ms Paul was a man she would be in prison. Ms Paul should be in prison. Her children deserve better.

The video shows her choking him. That is the biggest red flag in over 90 percent of of cases the next escalation is death. Hands on the neck or any kind of chocking is one of the biggest flags for domestic abuse turning deadly please everyone be aware. https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/identifying-abuse/strangulation-is-the-highest-predictor-of-murder F*** anyone defending her and saying he’s a f*** boi and equally as bad are playing into the super patriarchal perfect victim mentally. There is never an excuse for this. Seeing woman in my family be abused and seeing the exact same words and mentality being used because they were not perfect victims is beyond disgusting.

This was both terrifying and triggering to watch, that poor sweet child will be traumatized for the rest of her life. What I find most disturbing (in addition to the violence and screaming of course) is that Taylor didn’t snap out of it and immediately check on her daughter, she just kept screaming at Dakota. One of my best friends is a big Taylor defender (we actually got into a disagreement over it when TFP was announced as The Bachelorette, especially when she knows I’ve been an advocate against DV and SA for almost a decade), who along with our other friend thinks that she (Taylor) should be with Dakota… this is clearly a toxic relationship and if it keeps up, statistically one of them will end up dead or in jail. I’m not trying to be macabre when I say that, either.

these stupid reality shows need to be cancelled

Allegation? She’s beating her husband, launching chairs across the room at him, with her daughter in the room the whole time.

Insert the “Twisted Christian” episode of South Park, the video is legit disgusting and doing that in front of your kid is just so sad

I hate what reality TV has done to reality TV. The premise of reality shows is great. I'd love to see something like Jury Duty or Joe Schmo, or even early Survivor. It's real. It's candid. But now the producers are all optimizing for ratings, and the contestants are vying to become influencers. The show is just a gimmick used as an excuse to put shitty people on air doing shitty things for attention.

> abuse allegations *shows video of her on a screaming rampage while throwing a chair that hits her child and proceeds to throw two more as the child is crying out “mommy”* Yea……not sure about that.

It's not just about the video. The video didn't help but it's from 2023 and ABC was well aware of that previous assault charge, which she was assaulted for. She also got arrested AGAIN in February for assaulting Dakota. So the video AND the new arrest played a large role in this. Became too big to ignore.

reality tv is cancer

Glad Reddit is a more logical place than other social media. Could be engagement farming / rage bait but I’m seeing so many women defending TFP right now. I haven’t engaged with anyone on the subject yet but claiming she’s innocent because Dakotas a d***** bag is clinically insane. Violence is violence. Especially against a child. Words are just words. The video clearly shows he’s trying to get away and she continues to follow him and even hits her kid with a chair. The fact that people are claiming “reactive abuse” because he’s an a****** truly baffles me.

Who’d have thought “Flavor of Love” was soooo, so far from the bottom of the barrel?

I'm sure this can't be the first reality show that may end up as lost media because of the actions of the star, right?

“ It was supposed to be a really exciting time” Why do these things always happen to me?

Every picture I've seen of this girl, she has f****** crazy eyes.

This woman emanates BPD 

Pulled. F******. Pulled. Wild that’s millions down the f****** shitter

Trash human made famous for no reason? Color me shocked.

dead eyes, like a shark

is it still just an allegation if there's video proof?

How is it allegations when there’s video proof the b**** is crazy unstable

I think we can move past the word "allegations" after seeing that video. That woman is a lunatic.

Allegations? I think they mean 'proof.'

Can someone tldr for this?

It's wild as hell that they even chose her—and if that video hadn't come out, they would have gone on with the show.

Allegations? The video shows her beat his ass. She throws 2 bar stools which he deflects, while warning her that her young daughter is sitting there watching. The third bar stool misses him and hits the kid. She "allegedly" needs to lose that kid.

If I never have to hear about this show or story ever again, I will die happy

what makes me saddest is that this can’t be the first time those kids have seen her do something like this..just the first time she’s been caught

This lady looks like an god damn alien, who is vying for her attention on a TV show, we are not that starved

Allegations? There are videos online.

She’ll be on the 90 Day Fiancée circuit before we know it

Disney: Fires Johnathan Majors after domestic assault situation where it was very messy betwren him and his girlfriend's stories, and the true story was unclear Also Disney: Keeps her around after she was charged with abuse and had proof of her assaulting her husband and child, not only giving her a reality show, but also putting her on a massive reality competition while promoting her as an amazing mom who is a perfect role model