{"id":201012,"date":"2025-10-24T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/taylor-frankie-pauls-ex-dakota-mortensen-reacts-to-bachelorette-cast\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:23:16","slug":"taylor-frankie-pauls-ex-dakota-mortensen-reacts-to-bachelorette-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/taylor-frankie-pauls-ex-dakota-mortensen-reacts-to-bachelorette-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s Ex Dakota Mortensen Reacts to \u2018Bachelorette\u2019 Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Grab your popcorn \u2014 because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/the-bachelorette-14880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Bachelorette<\/em><\/a> hasn\u2019t even started filming yet, and there\u2019s already drama offscreen. After ABC revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/taylor-frankie-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Taylor Frankie Paul<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s potential lineup of suitors for the upcoming season, all eyes turned not to one of her new men, but to her ex, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/how-did-dakota-mortenson-react-to-taylor-frankie-paul-bachelorette-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dakota Mortensen<\/strong><\/a>, who couldn\u2019t resist dropping a few messy comments online.<\/p>\n<p>It all started when TikToker <strong>Zachary Reality<\/strong> shared a video breaking down the new batch of contestants vying for Taylor\u2019s heart. The twist? <strong>Lana Del Rey<\/strong>\u2019s ex-fianc\u00e9 is reportedly among them. But Dakota decided to make things about him, leaving a now-viral comment that read, \u201cMaking me wanna go win my baby momma back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Zachary reposted the remark in another TikTok, alongside several photos of Dakota in a red-flag Halloween costume \u2014 a fitting choice, some might say.<\/p>\n<p>Dakota\u2019s comment wasn\u2019t the first time he\u2019s made waves since Taylor was announced as the new Bachelorette. When the 31-year-old mom of two sat down with \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d host <strong>Alex Cooper<\/strong> to talk about her love life, Dakota jumped into the conversation \u2014 literally, in the comments section.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@zacharyreality\/video\/7564442609318382903\" data-video-id=\"7564442609318382903\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@zacharyreality\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@zacharyreality?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@zacharyreality<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>OMG TFP MEN \ud83c\udf39 <a title=\"thebachelorette\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/thebachelorette?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#thebachelorette<\/a> <a title=\"bachelornation\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/bachelornation?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#bachelornation<\/a> <a title=\"taylorfrankiepaul\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/taylorfrankiepaul?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#taylorfrankiepaul<\/a> <a title=\"zacharyreality\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/zacharyreality?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#zacharyreality<\/a> <a title=\"men\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/men?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#men<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c The Dark Sorcerers Trial - Perfect, So Dystopian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/The-Dark-Sorcerers-Trial-7435320507710425089?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c The Dark Sorcerers Trial \u2013 Perfect, So Dystopian<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s over and we\u2019ll see that play out,\u201d Taylor told Alex, adding that she \u201ccan\u2019t remember off the top of my head\u201d the last time she and Dakota hooked up, though she guessed it may have been \u201cStagecoach and one after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dakota quickly fact-checked her memory, writing, \u201c1 or 2 times\u2026.Got it lol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, he took to his Instagram Stories to post a cryptic message that read, \u201cHad so many curve balls today and every time I am always reminded there is nothing more important than God and family \u2764\ufe0f Life is too short.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, who was officially announced as the new Bachelorette during her Call Her Daddy appearance, told Us Weekly that she hasn\u2019t reached out to Dakota directly about her new role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not confirmed it with him. It\u2019s just not something that\u2019s been on, like, my priority list to confirm with him,\u201d she admitted. \u201cI don\u2019t know exactly how he\u2019ll react or feel, but he does know that we opened the gates of dating other people. [He\u2019ll] probably [be] sad. I assume that it\u2019s like, \u2018Whoa, she\u2019s gonna be dating people, a lot, and then also, in front of me,\u2019 and that\u2019s probably gonna be kind of hard to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cI can\u2019t speak for him, but I\u2019d assume it wouldn\u2019t be the best news he\u2019s heard on that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor and Dakota\u2019s relationship has been anything but simple. The influencer first rose to fame after her involvement in a \u201csoft swinging\u201d scandal within the Mormon mom community while she was still married to<strong> Tate Paul<\/strong>. After her divorce, she began dating Dakota, a relationship that unfolded publicly \u2014 and dramatically \u2014 on Hulu\u2019s <em>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pair\u2019s romance ended following Taylor\u2019s 2023 domestic violence arrest, which led to multiple charges including aggravated assault. She ultimately pled guilty to the assault charge while the others were dropped.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/taylor-frankie-pauls-ex-dakota-mortensen-reacts-to-bachelorette-cast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grab your popcorn \u2014 because The Bachelorette hasn\u2019t even started filming yet, and there\u2019s already drama offscreen. After ABC revealed Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s potential lineup of suitors for the upcoming season, all eyes turned not to one of her new men, but to her ex, Dakota Mortensen, who couldn\u2019t resist dropping a few messy comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-201012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}