'The Bachelorette' With Taylor Frankie Paul Is CANCELLED—Shandy Weighs In - Ep 454
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Just 3 days before its scheduled premiere, The Bachelorette Season 22 starring Taylor Frankie Paul was abruptly cancelled. Many of you wanted to hear Shandy's take on the news and the shocking reason why. So today, in lieu of the Bachelorette Premiere recap that was meant to drop today, they're answering your burning questions Q&A style.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 - Housekeeping
2:23 - Shandy’s Honest Thoughts When Taylor Was Announced As Bachelorette
12:15 - How Did ABC Rationalize Casting Taylor?
19:10 - Did You See This Coming?
19:38 - Were You Looking Forward To Recapping Taylor’s Season?
20:07 - Thoughts On Whether Or Not Dakota “Instigated” And Strategized The Video Release
21:16 - Could Taylor’s Behavior Be “Reactive Abuse”?
24:32 - Do You Think Dakota Got Paid For The Video?
27:26 - How Much Do You Hold Jesse Palmer Responsible For His Complicity?
29:58 - How Do You Think This Situation Would Be Treated Differently If Taylor Were A Man?
31:27 - Do You Think The Show Owes The Men An Apology?
34:46 - Do You Think The Season Will Air At A Later Date?
38:40 - Did Shandy See The Premiere Screener And If So, Thoughts?
51:40 - How Do You Think The Men Feel?
55:07 - Who *Should* The Show Have Chosen?
56:51 - “How Bad Of A Person Does It Make Me That I Still Want To Watch The Season?”
57:21 - Do You Think All Of This Was A Ploy?
59:43 - Can The Franchise Recover From This?
1:05:09 - Has Modern Dating Culture Outgrown ‘The Bachelor’?
1:05:47 - How Does A Sudden Pivot Like This Affect Dear Shandy/Podcasts?
1:07:46 - “Do You Feel This Is Good, To Not Give Trash Humans A Platform?”
1:11:34 - Overall Thoughts On Taylor Frankie Paul
1:14:50 - Deep Down Is Shandy Relieved?
1:15:41 - Was Casting Taylor Frankie Paul A Mistake?
1:15:50 - What Show Is Shandy Recapping Instead?
1:17:13 - Would You Recap Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives?
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| 0:00.0 | Some people wondered, do you think he got paid for it? |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:02.4 | I think he did. |
| 0:03.0 | 100%. |
| 0:03.5 | I don't think it was leaked. |
| 0:04.8 | I think it was sold to TMZ for a lot of money. |
| 0:09.1 | Wow. |
| 0:09.5 | How cynical of you? |
| 0:15.4 | Dear Shandy. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. |
| 0:21.9 | Hello, Andy. |
| 0:22.5 | Hello. |
| 0:22.9 | How are you today? |
| 0:23.8 | Great. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm looking forward to a new season of The Bachelorette. |
| 0:27.5 | It's been a while. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh, it has been a while. |
| 0:30.0 | It's going to be a while longer. |
| 0:31.8 | A long while longer. |
| 0:33.3 | Did something happen? |
| 0:35.6 | Isn't it crazy that one week ago, we thought this today, this episode would be a recap. That's right. As it was meant to be. We had a fun word watch planned. Oh, you guys. A really fun word watch. You guys are word watches this coming season. We put, I mean, we had so much time to prepare, right? We plotted, we had a whole word watch situation ready for you, and it's devastating. Okay, well, I don't want to give away how we feel about things. Today, obviously, we are discussing the Bachelorette cancellation with Taylor Frankie Paul. I always want to call her Frankie Taylor Paul. Any one of them. Yeah, any one of them. |
| 1:28.6 | But this is new news. We're recording this, by the way, on Saturday. So we're going to include the updates that we have heard, but it's moving so fast. I feel like new stuff is coming out every day. So stuff might come out between now and when this releases on Monday morning. But we're recording this on Saturday. And we think we have, like, we think we're up to date on everything. |
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