Another story that came out yesterday, this one was by TMZ and. I don’t buy this for a second. I’m gonna read it to you and it says, the men competing on Taylor, Frankie Paul’s love on the Bachelorette, say they were blindsided by the abuse allegations against the reality star TMZ has learned.
TMZ spoke with multiple contestants who said they were caught off guard by the allegations because their experience with Taylor was completely different. They all described her as kind, genuine, well-intentioned, say they saw a softer, more authentic side of her during film that doesn’t match the accusations.
While they acknowledged the accusations are troubling. The contestants believe there are misconceptions about her and say she came on the show with a pure heart trying to do the right thing for herself. Okay? There’s no way that they talk to multiple contestants even off record. This did not happen.
These contestants are so petrified of their contract. Even if they say, look, don’t attach my name to it. They wouldn’t take a chance of TMZ of all places. No, they didn’t. There’s no way that happened. Now. What’s interesting here is of course the guys are gonna side with Taylor and look, I don’t doubt for a second that once Taylor got away from Dakota and she wasn’t in Utah anymore and she was in Los Angeles and then subsequently Colorado and Vegas and Miami and then hometowns, and then she had to go to Salt Lake for overnights, but then went to St.
Lucia. I’m sure once she is away from Dakota, she probably is an angel to deal with. But the second she got back from filming, all that changed. So it’s very easy for these contestants to say, Hey, this isn’t true about her. We know a kind warmhearted mother. It’s like, okay. But that’s still very, very shortsighted of them to say, because they’re acting like there’s no way she could possibly do this.
And I’m not saying she’s a horrible person, but there are allegations out there and for you to say, well, when I was with her, she was great. Frankly, that opinion means absolutely nothing because if we come to find out something did happen and she was the aggressor in some sort of DV case, nobody gives a shit that she was nice to you on the show.
It’s totally irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, and it means absolutely nothing to anybody. So I get what these guys are trying to do. They don’t, they certainly are siding with her and the show, but honestly, it means nothing. These guys’ opinions of her mean absolutely nothing because they weren’t there three weeks ago when alleged DV situation happened.
They weren’t there. They don’t know. So by them saying like, well, she was nice to me, she was great on the show, it’s like so and such a dumb story to post TMZ. Now another thing to discuss is, is the show gonna get pulled? A short answer of that is no. Show’s not going anywhere in terms of this season. Yes.
We heard yesterday that Cinon has pulled their sponsorship of Taylor, Frankie Paul, so subsequent, subsequently, they’re pulling out of any sponsorship deals that they have with the bachelorette and secret lives of Mormon wives. But that’s one that’s not going to force them to. Take the show off the air.
The other thing is there would have to be a mass exodus of the top advertisers. I’m sure Cinnabon poured some money into this, but I don’t think that Cinon is paying the bills over at a, B, C, even on those two shows. I don’t know what the advertising dollar is. I don’t know how much they spent and decided to, you know what?
We’re gonna save that money. This doesn’t fit with our brand. I get it. Now if we start hearing 10, 15 sponsors all pull out, then we’re talking about, yes, maybe this does get pulled, but it’s, I just don’t think that’s gonna happen. Sunday is happening, the premier is going off as planned on Sunday night.
Absolutely no doubt about that. So don’t think that this show is getting pulled off the air because right now we’re also in the allegation phase. Like the fact that we’re, it’s being investigated right now. If there were charges filed and Taylor, Frankie Paul had gotten arrested back in February at the end of February and we just found out about it, then I think we’re talking about a whole d whole different deal here.
But all this is, is allegations. The Draper Police Department is looking into it. There’s no way they’re gonna pull a show over that. It’s not happening. Not a show this big. If this was some rinky-dink dating show that had just started and was in season one, yeah, they probably would, because the advertising dollars to that show were probably a hell of a lot less than The Bachelorette.
This is a Bachelorette franchise that is now on overall season total, I think is 51. So the 22nd Bachelorette, it’s been on the air for 25 years, or close to 25 years. Maybe it’s 23. It’s not getting pulled. Over just allegations right now. Now, if their charges end up being filed and somebody in this, well, I mean, if it were to go against Dakota, they’re not gonna pull this.
Dakota has nothing to do with the Bachelorette, the bachelorette season. But if Taylor. Is somehow charged with something and then arrested and they say she violated her probation and she gets thrown in jail. Then I think you’re dealing with something where they’re like, whoa, we have to figure it out of what we’re gonna do.
But we’re in the allegation phases and the investigation is ongoing. Personally, my opinion is this investigation is gonna lead to nothing. Unfortunately. I think this is gonna turn into. No charges were filed. We didn’t have enough evidence cases closed and everything will go on as normal. That’s what’s gonna happen here.
My prediction now, the other major thing that came out yesterday was the son had pictures from this past Saturday, four days ago of Taylor, Frankie Paul, and spoiler alert, if you don’t wanna know any spoilers, I would suggest muting and fast forwarding right now, 3, 2, 1. Pictures of Taylor and Doug arriving separately at a happy couple home.
Now, my spoilers told me everything I posted on Monday, they got engaged in St. Lucia. A month later, he was flown to Utah. She ended it with him and it was filmed. It’s the last I heard of everything, of anything. So I assumed well. Why would they get back together? But then again, we’re dealing with Taylor, Frankie Paul here, who can’t make up her mind about her baby daddy for the last three years.
So would I be shocked if these two got back together? I guess not. I shouldn’t be shocked with anything in regards to this woman. The other thing is the pictures that came out that the son posted yesterday showed Doug getting out of the car and he’s in the same exact shirt that Taylor posted on her TikTok on Sunday.
So clearly she took that video on Saturday. She went to the Oscars on Sunday. That’s when she posted her TikTok and so that was Doug in the video clearly. But. What does it mean? I don’t know. You know, obviously I’ve got months to find out did they reconcile? Are they still engaged? Are they just dating again?
And maybe said, Hey, let’s put the kibosh, let’s,
let’s maybe end that right now and let’s just date we don’t need the pressure of an engagement, but believe my sources, when they say absolutely ended the engagement. They broke up in January. Why they were together this past Saturday at a happy couple visit, and she posted him on TikTok. She clearly wanted to let everybody see that she was with a man.
No, it wasn’t Dakota. It was now confirmed to be Doug. We have pictures of them, literally on that day now from the Sun. So whether they’re together or not, I have no idea and what the, what it means of them being together. Are they trying to work on things? Are they just together because they had to film something?
Who knows? But honestly, Doug, if this is a reconciliation, I would honestly kind of side eye this guy because man, he’s being lied to. If he’s going to reconcile this relationship, whether it’s an engagement or just dating because. I don’t know if he just has his head buried in the, in the sand or what, and I, I understand.
Maybe he’s just gonna be like, I’m going to, you know, I, I’m not one to run. I can just picture the lines that they give these guys. I’m not one to run. I stick through things and I fell for this one. I’m not gonna give up this easily. And it’s like, dude, do you honestly think this is what you want? This is what you want in your life.
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You saw me post about it. It’s just an insult to my intelligence. It’s an insult to all the audience’s intelligence, because this is something that didn’t need to be lied about, you know? Like I understand what they were doing. They were bringing back as many old bachelorettes, older bachelorettes, not old age-wise, I’m just saying older bachelorettes.
Just get ’em all together in a room. Talk to Taylor, Frankie Paul. Tell her about what to expect. And this is what happened on my journey and here’s what you should do in this situation. But when that was filmed literally before hometown dates took place, and I watched that episode and I see some of these women, these former bachelorettes.
Talking to Taylor, Frankie Paul and saying, you know, and, and she’s asking questions, well, what should I do if a guy gets really unruly or whatever She was saying, it’s like, this is all just fluff and garbage. It’s like she’s already past that stage. She’s down to four guys. At that point that she had that conversation, I don’t know why the show had to lie about it.
I understand that they probably shot that when they did because that was the only time they could get everybody together. But I don’t know, just shoot it and. I mean, you couldn’t shoot it and have them talk about stuff in real time and then show that before the first episode, because that would’ve given away the season.
She couldn’t have been like, yeah, I’m down to four right now. It’s just like, wait a second. Why are they showing this to us before the first episode even airs? So I get that, but it’s almost like if you couldn’t shoot it before the season and you couldn’t get all the former bachelorettes together before the season to shoot that exact same show, but actually before Taylor started her journey, then don’t do it.
Lying to the public and making this fake show for 30 minutes, which was all a bunch of garbage and nonsense because what we were seeing on the TV wasn’t real. Those conversations were fake because Taylor was down to her Final Four at that point. And again, this isn’t something where I got inside info and I’m sharing it with you.
It was literally all over these former bachelorette’s Instagram pages back on November 20th when they filmed. Like that’s the thing that I don’t get about all this. They weren’t trying to hide it. All it took was somebody with an IQ over, I don’t know, seven to figure out like, wait a second. This filmed in no November.
She started filming her season on October 26th. This was filmed November 20th. She’s literally down to her Final four people at this point. Why are we watching them talk to her about stuff? Before the season and them saying the former bachelorettes in their ITM saying, we are here to see Taylor today, to send her off on our journey.
I’m like, oh my God, please. I, I fast forwarded through most of it, even though it was only a 30 minute show, thank God it was only 30 minutes. I fast forwarded through most of it ’cause I’m like, what am I watching here? This is a total fluff piece. It’s doing absolutely nothing to add to the show since I know all these conversations are fake.
Totally, totally bizarre on something that they did not need to lie about. That’s the thing that just gets me so like insignificant in the grand scheme of things, because plenty of times in the past we have seen former bachelors or bachelorettes show up at the mansion the night before filming starts, and those are actually really happened the night before filming starts.
So why do this? Why I, I would just love, again, this is what drives me nuts about this show. They’ll never address it. They’ll never say, yeah, we lied to everybody. They’ll never address it. My question is just why? Why do this? And finally, did you watch Bachelor Manchin take over this past Monday? I did. I watched it yesterday.
’cause obviously kind of busy on Monday night and. I just wanna point this out. You all know I’m very good friends with Courtney Robertson, and when I watched Monday’s episode, I was very, very happy because obviously Courtney, the first time around on Ben Flack season was clearly the villain of her season.
She was more of a fun villain. She never was really nasty that we saw on camera. It was just. Fun times. She was very confident in who she was very confident about winning, and she said winning a lot, but watching it play out the way it did on Monday’s episode was actually pretty gratifying for me because you had Joan and Alicia basically talking shit behind Courtney’s back.
Then sucking up to her, to her face. I mean, yeah, they did have some arguments face to face. They didn’t agree on a lot of things, but the best part about it was Joan and Alicia were basically talking shit about Courtney for her designing skills. And ugh, she’s including these lights. These are so tacky. Oh, she wants AstroTurf or fake grass, whatever.
I don’t like that at all. And then when they were judged, they specifically, jojo, specifically said, love the lights, love the AstroTurf. Which basically made Joan and Alicia look stupid. And it’s like you guys, you realize how dumb you sounded once Jojo approved of what Courtney did and what Courtney basically took complete control of.
That was hilarious to me. And honestly, you saw the episode, if you did, it made Joan and Alicia look like mean girls. I don’t think anybody is surprised about Alicia considering the way she came across on Bachelor in Paradise. Joan, who’s been our golden bachelorette and doesn’t seem to say a bad word about anybody.
I mean, that was kind of nasty. Just the way she sniped at Courtney. And I’m not just saying this because I’m Courtney’s friend, the way it played out, I don’t know how you can look at that and say that Alicia and Joan weren’t being mean girls to Courtney of what was shown, you know? So that was good. The thing I didn’t like about the episode was the stupid diving contest.
Come on. This has nothing to do with anything and how it played out. It’s like, oh, everybody’s dove. We’re down to the last dive. This team is down 61 to 45. So can Jill put together a dive that gets them 17 point? You know, that gets them 17 points. What do you know? Jill did a dive and one vote. One judge voted Taysha gave her a nine, and Tyler Cameron gave her an eight.
They got 17. They win by one. Oh,
yeah.
That wasn’t fixed. I mean, that’s just, that’s the stupidity of this show. Again, I’m not a designer, so I’m not gonna sit here and comment on anything that they built. I mean, I could say aesthetically it looked good. It looked better than it was because that mansion for as big and as spacious as it is.
The amount of things where the paint is peeling is still driving me nuts. But yeah, they seem to, you know, put together something that looks nice and we’ll see it play out in the first four episodes of Taylor season. But the whole, Hey, let’s have a diving contest to see who gets an advantage. Like clearly that was scored exactly the way it was probably scored before they even dove.
It was just like, you’re gonna give Dean these scores. You’re gonna give Courtney these scores. You’re gonna give Joan these scores. You’re gonna give Noah these scores. You’re gonna give Jill these scores, and she’s gonna be the final one. And this team’s gonna win by one. I’m sure that was all mapped out before anybody’s foot hit the water on any of those dives.
There’s no way. It wasn’t like really, do you honestly think that Jill’s dive when they needed 17 points to get the win, got them 17 points, you think it just was just a coincidence? Come on. Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcasts. Also rate and review, but you gotta hit play.
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