Bachelor Nation was shocked this week when it was introduced that the franchise was not solely skipping its subsequent cycle of The Bachelor in early 2026 however that, for the primary time ever, The Bachelorette was coming from exterior of the present. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul will lead Season 22 of ABC’s actuality relationship present. Followers’ reactions have been in all places, however her ex’s Lindsay Lohan-inspired response was notably amusing.
Followers of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (whose second season aired on the 2025 TV schedule and could be streamed with a Hulu subscription) have watched loads of drama play out between Taylor Frankie Paul and her child daddy/on-off boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. So how did he react to her being forged as The Bachelorette? He invoked LiLo, in fact! Take a look at his Instagram publish:
OK, I’m loving the resurfacing of Lindsay Lohan’s faux relationship video from 2009, and Dakota Mortensen’s use of the Humorous or Die clip to deal with his ex’s upcoming journey to seek out love would counsel he’s coping with it fairly nicely — even when he’s probably referencing her 2023 home violence arrest.
Within the video, he mouths the phrases of the Imply Ladies star, who says:
Hello, my identify is Lindsay and I’m looking for love. I’m just lately single, I believe, and I’m in search of somebody whom I can spend the remainder of my life with, or not less than the remainder of my probation with. Just a little bit about me: I’m an actress, a singer, an entrepreneur.
However simply in case anybody would get the impression that he’s bitter about The Bachelorette stealing his (generally) woman, he made positive to make clear that his video was all in good enjoyable, captioning the publish:
It’s a joke.. everybody calm down lol that being mentioned I’m glad for Tay and I hope she finds happiness it doesn’t matter what ❤️🩹🫶🏽
Whether or not or not Taylor Frankie Paul will discover happiness stays to be seen, however Bachelor Nation can relaxation assured that she’s going to carry the drama. Mormon Wives’ very first episode addressed the “soft-swinging” scandal that led to her divorce from Tate Paul (with whom she shares two kids) and her February 2023 arrest for home violence after a drunken altercation with Dakota Mortensen.
The couple allegedly began relationship in August 2022, however in November of that 12 months, Taylor Frankie Paul introduced she had an ectopic being pregnant, they usually broke up quickly after. They reunited simply weeks later and finally welcomed son Ever in March 2024, however their relationship was suffering from dishonest rumors, which performed out on the Hulu actuality present.
In accordance with Taylor Frankie Paul on Name Her Daddy, the place she introduced her forthcoming run as The Bachelorette, she and Dakota Mortensen are over for good, and we’ll apparently have to observe The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 3 to see that play out.
The third season of the Utah-based actuality sequence is ready to premiere Thursday, November 13, on Hulu, forward of Paul making her debut on The Bachelorette, which is able to presumably are available January 2026. I can’t assist however surprise what sort of social media content material she and Dakota Mortensen will proceed posting within the meantime.