NEW: Major Sponsor Pulls Out of "Bachelorette" as Taylor Frankie Paul Addresses Domestic Violence Investigation
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It’s tough timing for new Bachelorette, Taylor Frankie Paul, who is on a press tour for the show’s season premiere this Sunday. Paul addressed promoting “The Bachelorette” amid the negative headlines surrounding a domestic violence investigation involving her and her ex boyfriend. This, as a major U.S. company ends its new partnership with Paul’s shows, saying the collaboration “no longer aligns with our brand values.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.9 | It is Wednesday, March 18th, |
| 0:18.3 | and Roboc just told me to save it for the podcast because we had plenty to say |
| 0:23.9 | Bachelorette starts on Sunday but already some are getting out of the Bachelorette and the |
| 0:32.0 | Taylor Frankie Paul business with that welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:36.6 | When money starts flying this becomes a different conversation. This isn't just social media now |
| 0:41.6 | talking about what's going on with her. Now a company has said, we're out. Exactly. And you would |
| 0:49.0 | think that that might prompt Disney, which owns both ABC and Hulu, to say something, make some sort of comment, |
| 0:56.7 | some sort of statement, either in support of Taylor, Frankie Paul, and The Bachelorette, or |
| 1:01.7 | distancing themselves. But they have remained completely silent, even now in the wake of a |
| 1:08.4 | collaborator, a partner, a very well-known brand pulling out. |
| 1:13.6 | Look, if you get to the point where a company that sells Cinebuns doesn't even want to be in business with you, |
| 1:20.5 | we should probably have some conversations. |
| 1:23.7 | Yes, because as you point out, money talks, that is when the pressure is real. It's not just public opinion or controversy, which honestly, in a lot of ways, makes all of your promotion all the better. You're going to have more eyes. Most likely more people are going to watch Sunday's debut of the Bachelor Red because of all of this. |
| 1:46.5 | Maybe there will be people who will be so disgusted by the headlines that they will turn it off. |
| 1:50.9 | But I would bet that ratings will be up because of this. |
| 1:56.4 | And certainly Disney is betting on that. |
| 1:58.6 | And what we're talking about here is Cinebond has come out now and said they are stepping back and they are not going to be a part of advertising. |
| 2:05.1 | They're not going to be a part of promoting. |
| 2:06.5 | They're not going to be a part of any partnership anymore with the Bachelorette. |
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