“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Taylor Frankie Paul would be the subsequent lead of ABC’s “The Bachelorette.”
Frankie Paul, who’s greatest identified for rising to fame on MomTok earlier than starring on the Hulu actuality sequence, will headline the twenty second season of “The Bachelorette,” set to air in 2026. The season will comply with the discharge of “Mormon Wives” Season 3 on Nov. 13. The truth star is 31 and is a single mom of three.
The casting was introduced on Alex Cooper’s “Name Her Daddy” podcast whose teaser movies on Tuesday afternoon led followers to invest about Frankie Paul’s casting after Cooper teased that the brand new lead hadn’t but been within the “Bachelor” franchise and is part of one other actuality present.
Frankie Paul’s casting comes amid a shakeup for “The Bachelorette,” which took a break in 2025 after not airing throughout its typical summer season slot. “The Bachelorette” Season 22 will air previous to “The Bachelor” Season 30, TheWrap has realized, because the franchise scales again the frequency of its seasons.
Frankie Paul follows within the footsteps of the newest “Bachelorette” Jenn Tran, who led Season 21 of the ABC actuality courting present throughout summer season 2025. She isn’t the one “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star increasing her horizons throughout the Disney household, with Whitney Leavitt and Jen Affleck set to seem on the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars,” premiering Tuesday, Sept. 16.
Earlier than Frankie Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette” airs, the franchise will launch the second season of “The Golden Bachelor,” which shall be led by former NFLer Mel Owens.
“The Bachelorette” is produced by Warner Horizon Unscripted Tv, a Warner Bros. Tv Group firm, with Scott Teti, who showran “Bachelor in Paradise” Season 10, serving as government producer.
