'secret Lives Of Mormon Wives' Star Taylor Frankie Paul Is The Next Bachelorette

Taylor Frankie Paul, nan prima of Hulu's "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" and #MomTok fame, is headed to Bachelor Nation.

Paul, 31, joined Alex Cooper connected her "Call Her Daddy" podcast connected Wednesday to denote nan news, which was accompanied by an ABC release, nan web that airs "The Bachelorette." She besides confirmed to Cooper that she will beryllium returning to “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” for play three, which premieres successful November connected Hulu.

"After igniting 'MomTok' and going viral for pulling backmost nan curtain connected Salt Lake's soft-swinging segment successful Hulu's Emmy Award-nominated bid 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,'' ABC revealed that Paul is "ready to waste and acquisition headline-making heartbreak for hometown dates arsenic she originates making her people connected Bachelor Nation."

Paul has been "captivating millions pinch her raw, unapologetic storytelling," ABC added, noting that her "comedic, heartwarming and bitingly honorable contented has earned her a monolithic following."

"As a azygous mother of three, Paul shares nan highs and lows of her life pinch unfiltered candor. With humor, resilience, and a fearless openness, she inspires others to clasp life's chaos and ain their story," ABC said.

On "Call Her Daddy," Cooper pointed retired that Paul is nan first female to beryllium named nan Bachelorette who is not already a portion of nan franchise.

Paul told Cooper she's emotion "surreal" and that nan news "has not deed me" yet.

"It's not real, and it's not going to beryllium until, I think, nan limo is pulling up," she said. "In my caput I'm like, 'how is this happening?'"

Paul recalled making a TikTok years ago, joking astir being connected nan ABC reality show aft group told her she should beryllium nan adjacent Bachelorette pursuing a grounded relationship. But she said she ne'er thought it would really happen.

The TikTok influencer added that she didn't judge that she would beryllium picked for nan lead domiciled of 1 of nan astir celebrated reality TV franchises until she sewage nan invitation that said, "Will you beryllium our Bachelorette?"

Paul recalled "shaking, pacing backmost and forth," erstwhile she sewage nan news.

Despite her excitement, Paul revealed to Cooper that she did person immoderate hesitations earlier accepting nan role, galore of which were tied to nan truth that she's a azygous mom of 3 pinch 2 "baby daddies."

"My location guidelines is here. Can I recreation that long? Can I beryllium gone that long?" Paul said she asked herself. "Is this imaginable for maine to do arsenic a azygous mom? Can I make it work, realistically, nary matter really overmuch I want this?"

But ultimately, she told herself, "I can. If I want to, I can. You tin do thing you want, if you want." She added that she has a squad of group she is relying on, including family members and nannies, to make it work.

Paul told Cooper that her family had a akin guidance to hers to nan news, and she said it "took a minute" for them to recognize this was really happening. Once they saw each of nan roses, it deed them that this was real, Paul said.

"This is thing truthful caller for maine because, obviously, I sewage joined young, divorced, and past nan first feline I met was nan adjacent relationship, truthful I person not done nan full gathering caller group ... making love astatine nan aforesaid time," she said. "That will beryllium caller to me."

Paul is expecting this acquisition to beryllium an accommodation because she's "not a reality TV girl," but she said she's watched nan show successful nan past and is alert of immoderate of nan lore from nan franchise.

"I don't person notes of really this works," Paul said, adding that she and her friends person done role-play scenarios of what she mightiness extremity up successful connected nan show. Still, she admitted, nan format is overseas to her.

"You're not going to ruin it," Cooper said of nan upcoming season. "You're going to make it your own."

Season 22 of “The Bachelorette” will aerial successful 2026.