Taylor Frankie Paul Steps Into the Spotlight as ABC’s Newest Bachelorett

• ABC announced that Tay­lor Frankie Paul—star of The Secret Lives of Mor­mon Wives—will be the next Bach­e­lorette fol­low­ing Jenn Tran’s sea­son.
• Spec­u­la­tion began a day ear­li­er, when Call Her Dad­dy host Alex Coop­er post­ed a reel teas­ing news about The Bach­e­lorette sea­son 22 and sev­er­al Mor­mon Wives cast mem­bers took to her com­ments sec­tion. 
• More details about the upcom­ing sea­son are revealed on the lat­est episode of Call Her Dad­dy, where Tay­lor Frankie Paul is offi­cial­ly intro­duced as the new Bach­e­lorette.

Remem­ber when the news broke back in Feb­ru­ary that ABC would be “paus­ing” the upcom­ing cycleof The Bach­e­lorette fol­low­ing Jenn Tran’s sea­son? Well, it seems the wait is (almost) over. ABC just named their next Bach­e­lorette, and she is Tay­lor Frankie Paul…who, unlike past sea­sons, is not a from run­ner-up from the pre­ced­ing Bach­e­lor sea­son, or even a mem­ber of Bach­e­lor Nation at all. Sur­prise!

Fans first start­ed the­o­riz­ing about The Secret Lives of Mor­mon Wives star pos­si­bly becom­ing the next Bach­e­lorette on Sept. 9, the day before the news dropped. That’s when Call Her Dad­dy’s Alex Coop­er post­ed a cryp­tic reel on Insta­gram, which shows her slic­ing a cake dec­o­rat­ed with the words “Sea­son 30” in blue frost­ing. (For the record: Grant Ellis’s sea­son of The Bach­e­lor was sea­son 29.)

How­ev­er, when she cuts into the cake, pink frost­ing is revealed inside. Her cap­tion: “Change of plans 🌹.”

While the post seemed to sug­gest that a new sea­son of The Bach­e­lorette was on its way, the com­ments sec­tion gave a hint as to who that Bach­e­lorette could be. Mul­ti­ple Mor­mon Wives cast mem­bers showed up in the com­ments of Alex’s post—including Jes­si Ngatikau­ra, who post­ed a side eye emo­ji and heart hands, Demi Enge­mann, who dropped an “Oop!” and a heart-eye emo­ji. Iii­in­ter­est­ing. 

Rumors only esca­lat­ed after Alex post­ed a sec­ond reel lat­er on in the day, con­firm­ing that the next Bach­e­lorette would indeed be announced on the Sept. 10 episode of Call Her Dad­dy…and the mys­tery woman was part of a show out­side of The Bach­e­lor.

You can check out the full Call Her Dad­dyepisode (which just dropped) with the big announce­ment here:

If you’re a Mor­mon Wives fan, then you know that only two cast mem­ber are unmar­ried at the moment, and that’s Lay­la Tay­lor (who’s cur­rent­ly dat­ing Mason McWhort­er, aka the broth­er of her co-star Miran­da McWhort­er’s ex-hus­band, Chase) and Tay­lor Frankie Paul, who called it quits with Dako­ta Mortensen back in Decem­ber 2024.

A lit­tle more back­ground on TFP while we’re here: The 31-year-old is a full-time con­tent cre­ator based in Utah who’s best known for Mom­Tok, dirty soda, and the soft-swing­ing scan­dal that rocked her group of Mor­mon moms back in 2022. She shares two chil­dren with her ex-hus­band Tate Paul (who she divorced not long after the soft-swing­ing scan­dal went viral) and a third child with her more recent ex, Dako­ta.