UPDATE: Even though Disney execs haven’t ruled anything out, TMZ is reporting that Taylor Frankie Paul’s season is not on ABC’s summer schedule.
Read on for our ongoing coverage of reality TV’s most burning question: Will we ever get to see Taylor’s search for love?
Get excited, fans of problematic reality TV!
There’s reason to believe that Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of The Bachelorette might eventually see the light of day.
In a new interview, Rob Mills, Disney’s executive vice president of unscripted TV, revealed that ABC is still open to the possibility of eventually airing Taylor’s episodes.
“Everything with that is one day at a time. There’s really nothing new to report right now,” Mills told Variety when asked about the possibility that the season — which has already been filmed in its entirety — might eventually air.
Recent court decisions may have influenced Disney’s decision-making process. We now know that Paul will not face any additional charges following an investigation into additional domestic violence claims.
Taylor pled guilty to assaulting then-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen in February of 2023. But it was only when ABC execs saw footage of the incident that they decided not to air her season.
Still, Mills stands by the decision to cast her as Bachelorette.
“I had met with Taylor. She had said, ‘Look, I’m raising three kids with different fathers; one, I have a phenomenal co-parenting relationship with. The other one is a challenge, but I’m really looking for a partner and somebody who can help me,’” he shared.
“Her motives were really very sincere,” he continued.
“Walking into that, that was a really exciting story to tell through the lens of The Bachelorette. Obviously, with everything that happened and everything everyone’s going through, that’s the hard part. Everything that Taylor’s had to go through has been really hard. The season itself is really, really fantastic. It was a great journey for her.”
