‘Bachelorette’ S22 Cast Bios: Mama’s Boys & Cowboy Cosplayers
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Claire Fallon, Emma Gray
4.3 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
It’s almost time for Taylor Frankie Paul’s journey on “The Bachelorette” to officially begin, which means that it’s time for us to dive into the cast bios. Twenty-two strapping men who fall broadly into the categories of Former Athlete, Surf Guy, Cowboy and self-proclaimed Mama’s Boy (with a side of Dakota Mortensen lookalikes), will be wooing TFP. And turns out, we had a lot to say about them, despite knowing very little. We also discuss the “Bachelorette” reunion / season preview that aired after The Oscars, as well as the social media rollout of the official cast announcements. This season might end up being a trainwreck, but it absolutely won’t be boring.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends, Emma and Claire here. |
| 0:03.2 | Before we get into today's episode, which we did tape before some pretty upsetting news broke about Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, we wanted to take a few minutes to address that news up top. |
| 0:19.1 | So on Sunday night, TMZ broke the news that the Secret Lives |
| 0:23.7 | of Mormon Wives Season 5 production was on pause due to a, quote, heated blow up between Taylor |
| 0:30.2 | Frankie Paul, who is the star both of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and The Bachelorette's |
| 0:36.2 | upcoming season, which premieres on Sunday, |
| 0:38.4 | March 22nd, and her ex-Dakota Mortensen, who is also a character on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. |
| 0:45.9 | This was framed as drama and nothing more was reported. You know, they have a pretty well-documented |
| 0:53.5 | history of having dramatic reconciliations and |
| 0:57.0 | breakups. So we went ahead and taped our Bachelorette Cass Bios episode on Monday morning. |
| 1:02.4 | After we did tape, more information came out, both through TMZ and other outlets like People |
| 1:09.6 | Magazine. This is still a developing story and one that we |
| 1:13.9 | want to really be responsible with and therefore approach with a lot of care and caution. |
| 1:19.7 | But as of Monday night, when we are taping this current segment, this is what we know. |
| 1:26.1 | TMZ reported that there was an incident between Taylor and |
| 1:28.9 | Dakota in late February, which escalated. They say, quote, things came to a head late last month when |
| 1:35.3 | Taylor and Dakota were driving in his car and gotten a heated argument. We're told a drink was spilled |
| 1:40.1 | on the seat and on Dakota, and he became enraged. Sources connected to Taylor say he got physical with her were told Dakota called the police and said Taylor was the one who got physical. |
| 1:51.1 | So you have conflicting reports there. |
| 1:53.1 | According to TMZ, also some sources say that Dakota, quote, went MIA for nearly three weeks after this incident, which is ultimately what caused |
| 2:03.2 | production on Secret Lives to pause. Other sources, which they identify as being, quote, close to the show, |
| 2:09.4 | claim that production actually shut down because other cast members refused to film. It's |
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