{"id":261259,"date":"2026-09-03T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/taylor-frankie-paul-i-got-engaged-on-the-bachelorette-and-then-kept-talking-to-my-ex\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:08:26","slug":"taylor-frankie-paul-i-got-engaged-on-the-bachelorette-and-then-kept-talking-to-my-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/taylor-frankie-paul-i-got-engaged-on-the-bachelorette-and-then-kept-talking-to-my-ex\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Frankie Paul: I Got Engaged on &#8216;The Bachelorette&#8217; &#8230; And Then Kept Talking to My Ex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Frankie Paul may never get her shot at a televised happily-ever-after, but apparently, she did get a proposal.<\/p>\n<p>And, because this is Taylor we\u2019re talking about, the romantic moment was followed by an extremely complicated trip home.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Secret Lives of Mormon Wives <\/em>star reveals in an upcoming episode that she accepted a marriage proposal while filming her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/06\/taylor-frankie-pauls-season-of-the-bachelorette-to-air-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canceled season of <em>The Bachelorette<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Frankie Paul attends the Los Angeles Premiere and FYC Event of Hulu's &quot;The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives&quot; Season 2 at Paramount Studios on May 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. \" class=\"wp-image-562378 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2214311759-5-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Frankie Paul attends the Los Angeles Premiere and FYC Event of Hulu\u2019s \u201cThe Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives\u201d Season 2 at Paramount Studios on May 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Araya Doheny\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a SLOMW promotional clip that aired on Hulu\u2019s \u201cGet Real\u201d podcast, Taylor is asked by costar Jessi Draper whether she got engaged during her time on the ABC dating show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. Yes, I did,\u201d she answers.<\/p>\n<p>So much for keeping those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/05\/ilona-maher-the-bachelorette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Bachelorette<\/em> spoilers<\/a> under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor does not identify the man who proposed, but the women quickly make it pretty obvious who they believe he is. <\/p>\n<p>The suitor is seemingly Doug Mason, who shares the same initials as Taylor\u2019s on-again, off-again ex, Dakota Mortensen.<\/p>\n<p>And the similarities don\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"thg-ytf\" data-ytid=\"J1G2hYy2VPI\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/J1G2hYy2VPI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Get Real | Tyler Cameron + Connor Wood\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/J1G2hYy2VPI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Get Real | Tyler Cameron + Connor Wood\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"lazyload\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><button type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video: Get Real | Tyler Cameron + Connor Wood\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"68\" height=\"48\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M66.5 7.7a8 8 0 0 0-5.6-5.7C56 .7 34 .7 34 .7s-22 0-26.9 1.3A8 8 0 0 0 1.5 7.7 83 83 0 0 0 .2 24a83 83 0 0 0 1.3 16.3 8 8 0 0 0 5.6 5.7C12 47.3 34 47.3 34 47.3s22 0 26.9-1.3a8 8 0 0 0 5.6-5.7A83 83 0 0 0 67.8 24a83 83 0 0 0-1.3-16.3z\" fill=\"#f00\"\/><path d=\"M27 34l18-10-18-10z\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey have the same initials. They\u2019re both from Idaho. It\u2019s so weird,\u201d Jessi points out.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor insists she didn\u2019t initially notice just how much Doug and Dakota had in common.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t start thinking that until people said it around me,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>But the proposal apparently wasn\u2019t the end of Taylor\u2019s romantic complications.<\/p>\n<p>After accepting the ring, Taylor returned home \u2014 and, according to her own account, she was still communicating with Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, I come home. Obviously [Dakota] were texting. \u2018When are you going to be home?\u2019 I don\u2019t know how it led to it but he came over,\u201d Taylor says.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dcm2orqlN84\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Because apparently coming home from a dating show where you just accepted another man\u2019s proposal and immediately reconnecting with your ex wasn\u2019t complicated enough.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor\u2019s season of <em>The Bachelorette<\/em> was filmed but ultimately never aired. ABC canceled the season in March, just days before its scheduled premiere, after video surfaced of a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/03\/the-bachelorette-to-be-canceled-completely-following-taylor-frankie-paul-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">domestic altercation involving Taylor and Dakota<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation left Bachelor Nation with plenty of unanswered questions \u2014 including who Taylor chose, whether she actually got engaged and what happened after filming ended.<\/p>\n<p>Now, viewers are finally getting at least one of those answers.<\/p>\n<p>And considering Taylor\u2019s relationship history with Dakota, it sounds like that engagement came with considerably more baggage than your average <em>Bachelorette<\/em> Neil Lane moment.<\/p>\n<p>There were rumors that ABC would finally air Taylor\u2019s season over the summer, but that obviously didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will presumably learn even more about Taylor\u2019s short-lived journey to the altar when <em>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/em> Season 5 premieres on Hulu September 10.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/09\/taylor-frankie-paul-i-got-engaged-on-the-bachelorette-and-then-kept-talking-to-my-ex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Taylor Frankie Paul may never get her shot at a televised happily-ever-after, but apparently, she did get a proposal. And, because this is Taylor we\u2019re talking about, the romantic moment was followed by an extremely complicated trip home. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star reveals in an upcoming episode that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261259","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=261259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}