{"id":671013,"date":"2026-03-21T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/671013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:53:14","slug":"rachel-lindsay-says-bachelor-franchise-over-amid-taylor-bachelorette-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/671013\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Lindsay Says Bachelor Franchise Over Amid Taylor Bachelorette Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFormer Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay<\/a> doesn\u2019t think the Bachelor franchise can survive Taylor Frankie Paul<\/a>\u2019s domestic violence controversy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a Thursday taping of the Bachelor Party<\/a> podcast, the former franchise lead learned of ABC\u2019s decision to pull<\/a> The Bachelorette season 22 after a video leaked of Paul<\/a>, depicting the events that led to her 2023 arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLindsay cut her two co-hosts off to share the news, admitting she had \u201cchills.\u201d She also explained that she thought the season<\/a> was \u201cover\u201d after the video was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s over. I was trying to think of a scenario where it could be different. Because this isn\u2019t just, \u2018Oh, we put it all on a person. This person did this.\u2019 This is the system that allowed this to happen,\u201d she said. \u201cThe name Bachelorette, Bachelor is tainted<\/a> at this point. How do you move forward past that? You can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tABC<\/a> yanked Paul\u2019s Bachelorette season<\/a> on Thursday after a 2023 video of Paul engaging in a domestic dispute with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Dakota Mortensen was posted by TMZ. \u201cIn light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of The Bachelorette<\/a> at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family,\u201d a Disney Entertainment Television spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the TMZ video, it was confirmed Monday that production on season five of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was paused<\/a> amid a separate domestic incident involving Paul and Mortensen. A spokesperson for the Draper City Police Department told People<\/a> there is an open \u201cdomestic assault investigation\u201d between Paul and Mortensen. They added that \u201callegations have been made in both directions\u201d and \u201ccontact was made with involved parties on [Feb.] 24th and 25th.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs of Friday, filming on season five of Mormon Wives is still paused until production\u2019s investigation into the February incident between Paul and Mortensen, which is separate from the law enforcement investigation, concludes, which is expected to be by the end of next week, a source<\/a> close to the situation told The Hollywood Reporter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bachelorette season 13<\/a> star noted that there was prior backlash to Paul being named the next franchise lead<\/a>, and that while \u201cthere was excitement, there was going to be a new audience, the traditional Bachelor viewers were already upset by this decision.\u201d Lindsay pointed out that that hesitancy, combined with the ongoing controversy, may lead viewers to lose trust in the franchise as a whole.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo how do you trust this name \u2014 Bachelor, Bachelorette \u2014 that has meant something to people, moving forward? You don\u2019t,\u201d Lindsay explained. \u201cYou already questioned it when you moved Taylor Frankie Paul over [from Mormon Wives.] Now it is completely destroyed. Like, why did you guys think this was okay? That\u2019s the question that needs to be answered. We\u2019re never gonna get that from Taylor at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s no way under any brand, but particularly Disney, that you can proceed when this video comes out,\u201d she explained earlier in the podcast, adding that she was originally keen on Paul\u2019s casting. \u201cIt makes me go back to, there was a lot of outrage when she was cast, and I have to get onto myself for this. When she was cast, I was invigorated by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe know that the typical Bachelorette, and I\u2019m assuming they did this for her, goes through an STD background test, a psychological test and a criminal background test,\u201d Lindsay added. \u201cThis is where I say I take blame. If you had asked me prior to this to explain, even though we saw episode one of season one that this domestic violence dispute happened, we didn\u2019t see what we saw today that was released by TMZ, but we knew it happened. I didn\u2019t do more research.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday, an NBC News report revealed that Paul\u2019s Mormon Wives co-stars had a 30-minute Zoom call with three Disney executives including Rob Mills, executive vp unscripted and alternative entertainment at Walt Disney Television, on March 7. There, they voiced concern<\/a> about the alleged incident that took place in February between Paul and Mortensen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay doesn\u2019t think the Bachelor franchise can survive Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s domestic violence controversy.\u00a0 During…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":671014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[8811,171,283119,276084,36884,36885,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-671013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abc","tag-entertainment","tag-rachel-lindsay","tag-taylor-frankie-paul","tag-the-bachelor","tag-the-bachelorette","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116266087739726221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}