"Cooper teased the twist further in a follow-up video, staging a phone call with ABC. "You want Call Her Daddy to announce the next Bachelor? What do you mean it's the next Bachelorette? Shut up, how did you get her to say yes? But she's never even been a part of The Bachelor. This is gonna be great for ratings. But what about the other show she's on?""
"Taylor's casting marks the first time a Bachelorette lead has been appointed from outside the franchise. But of course, she's no reality newbie. Mormon Wives documents her life as a single mom to three children - Indy and Ocean, whom she shares with her ex-husband, and Ever, the son she welcomed with Dakota Mortensen. Their tumultuous relationship is one of the main storylines on the Hulu series, which was the streamer's biggest unscripted premiere of 2024."
ABC announced Taylor Frankie Paul as the next Bachelorette for 2026, with promotion assistance from podcaster Alex Cooper. Cooper teased the casting via videos that revealed a Season 30 cake with pink filling and a staged phone call with ABC. Fans connected the clues to Taylor, a reality veteran whose Hulu series Mormon Wives follows her life as a single mother of three and her fraught relationship with Dakota Mortensen. Mormon Wives delivered Hulu's biggest unscripted premiere of 2024, grew in Season 2 per Disney, and influenced ABC to draw talent from outside the traditional Bachelor pipeline.
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