Utahn’s announcement for reality show’s 22nd season was made on a popular podcast Wednesday.
(Natalie Cass | Disney) The cast for season two of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” which follows Utah #MomTok influencers, pose at Provisions, a restaurant in Millcreek. From left to right: Jennifer Affleck, Miranda McWhorter, Layla Taylor, Demi Engemann, Mayci Neeley, Jessi Ngatikaura, Mikayla Matthews, Whitney Leavitt and Taylor Frankie Paul.
The Utah woman who brought #MomTok and “soft swinging” into America’s conversations will soon go from “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” to choosing from a couple dozen men to date.
Taylor Frankie Paul, whose candid admissions about her life as a Latter-day Saint mom on TikTok became a media sensation, has been selected as the next star of ABC’s reality dating show, “The Bachelorette.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the announcement came Wednesday on an episode of Alex Cooper’s popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast. Paul, 31, will be the central figure of Season 22 of the show, airing sometime in 2026.
(Pamela Littky | Disney) Taylor Frankie Paul, the founder of #MomTok, has been selected as the new star of ABC’s reality dating series “The Bachelorette.” Paul, 31, nearly brought the influencer supergroup to its knees in 2022 when she admitted to going too far while “soft swinging” with a friend’s husband.
On “The Bachelorette,” one woman chooses, over the course of several episodes, from among a couple dozen male suitors.
Paul first earned national attention in 2022, when she and a group of Utah content creators on TikTok and Instagram — all reportedly members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — hinted that they engaged in open relationships.
In one such video, Paul claimed she and others in their group were involved in what they called “soft swinging,” which was vaguely defined as having physical contact with other people’s spouses, but stopping short of intercourse. Others in the group denied it, and Paul later posted that she and her husband were divorcing.
On the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Paul told Cooper that the scandal “was a very short-lived learning lesson. That’s another one I learned, right? For me. Don’t open your marriage, because it didn’t end well. And if you open your marriage, great. If you have your system down, great. I don’t judge on that either because obviously I tried it. But it didn’t work out and I don’t think it would ever be healthy for me. … I would never do that again.”
Paul also will continue to appear on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” The reality show’s third season is scheduled to begin streaming on Hulu on Nov. 13.
Meanwhile, two of Paul’s castmates, Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt, are slated to compete on the upcoming season of “Dancing With the Stars,” which premieres Tuesday on ABC.