Shame on ABC for casting Taylor Frankie Paul on…
Imagine that you’re the producer of a community actuality TV show about discovering love.
A derivative, your program has been chugging along for 23 long years over 21 seasons. But rankings have been slipping and you need to spice issues up.
Then it hits you: That TikToker from that other actuality TV show about mormons! She has 6.1 million followers, and she’s a mess. Let’s rent her!
Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette” was scrapped by ABC. Disney
Who cares that she pleaded guilty in August to felony aggravated assault against her former boyfriend in 2023 and is on probation? That’s attention-grabbing!
So what that the police report plainly says one of the 2 items of steel furnishings she hurled at him hit her five-year-old little one? Cops said the little woman had a “goose egg” on her head. Meh. That was three years in the past. Nobody died.
Another show already put this clearly troubled girl on TV. And so will you. You are determined, soulless and disgusting. That’s what makes you so good at your job.
Then, just three days before the big premiere, the stunning video footage drops on GWN.
And the backlash is ferocious.
Everything that occurs on the grisly three-and-a-half-minute clip, you and the world already knew about. The altercation was even a plotline on the other actuality TV show.
But now its true repulsiveness is clearly seen and on the market for everybody to see. The horrible optics are unimaginable to overcome. You’re pressured to scrap the complete season, maybe indefinitely, dropping your struggling community a reported $30 million.
GWN launched a video exhibiting Paul hurling steel chairs at her ex-boyfriend. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Most of you’ll most likely not be so silly and reckless.
But that’s precisely what occurred this week to the Imbeciles of the Year over at ABC who introduced on ticking time bomb Taylor Frankie Paul for Season 22 of “The Bachelorette.” They knew precisely what they had been getting into, and the morons did it anyway.
Season 22 was supposed to premiere on Sunday night time. Instead, including to the bleakness, ABC will air a rerun of “American Idol.”
Now, the community and “Bachelorette” workforce are caught in an ongoing catastrophe that’s completely of their own making.
I find it irresistible so a lot.
ABC launched a assertion saying they’re “supporting the family.” Getty Images
I’ve never watched the show. Roses are handed out, I collect. Contestantants are served an excessive amount of booze, apparently.
And this was the first I’d heard of the 31-year-old violent star of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and fixture of one thing called #MomTok, which feels like a city in the Hamptons but is definitely Utah moms performing dances.
But nothing will get these fingers typing like a good ‘ol public show of idiocy.
And ABC has merely outdone themselves right here. Those three letters ought to stand for Astonishingly Bad Choices.
The Paul debacle ought to tank the complete dumb “Bachelor” franchise. Disney via Getty Images
The community and the bozos in charge of “The Bachelorette” deserve every keystroke of criticism, mass fan fallout and enormous financial loss coming their means. I dearly hope their giant lapse of judgement takes down the entire silly franchise.
What’s most despicable is that had the video of Paul hurling chairs at ex Dakota Mortensen not been unearthed — a clip that, once again, is a recorded model of occasions the community was totally conscious of — ABC would’ve gleefully aired the show.
They’ve said so!
“In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’ at this time,” they said in a assertion.
“Our focus is on supporting the family.”
Oh is it?! A fast Google search would point out “The Bachelorette,” “The Bachelor” and its other marry-me mutations would not have a strong observe file of “supporting” anyone.
They’re top notch, however, at filming repeated cases of racism and drunken belligerence. And some of its contributors have fairly a knack for getting arrested after manufacturing wraps.
The Taylor Frankie Paul debacle is par for the course — only viscerally disturbing and with huge penalties for the company.
ABC’s mum or dad Disney cares about money. And this wreckage ought to wake them up as to what the best course of motion relating to the “Bachelor” franchise is: a divorce.
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