American Idol followers dimmed the lights this week somewhat ahead of common.
After ABC introduced Taylor Frankie Paul‘s season of The Bachelorette would now not premiere on March 22, the community changed the relationship sequence with a re-run of the competitors present.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star’s journey to discovering the one was in the end shelved on March 19 after a 2023 video of a bodily altercation between her and then-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen surfaced. Shortly afterwards, a spokesperson for Disney Leisure, the mother or father firm to ABC and Hulu, shared perception into the corporate’s decision.
“In gentle of the newly launched video simply surfaced at this time,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement to E! Information, “we’ve got made the choice to not transfer ahead with the brand new season of The Bachelorette at the moment, and our focus is on supporting the household.”
As for Taylor—who shares a son with Dakota, in addition to two different youngsters with ex Tate Paul—her rep addressed the footage in an announcement to E! Information, saying that the video was a part of “a harmful marketing campaign to hurt Taylor” and categorized the discharge as “a reprehensible try and distract from” Dakota’s habits.
