The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Dakota Mortensen has extra to say about his ex-girlfriend Taylor Frankie Paul taking up a brand new function as the subsequent Bachelorette.
“I'm completely happy for Tay, and I hope she finds happiness,” Dakota, 32, captioned a Friday, September 12, TikTok video, parodying Taylor's earlier add wishing to be the subsequent Bachelor Nation lead.
ABC introduced earlier this week that Taylor, 31, will now carry the Bachelorette mantle and hand out roses subsequent season. Months earlier, she teased her want to be a part of the present by lip-synching Lindsay Lohan's Tremendous Bowl industrial about searching for love.
“Is that this the way it works to be the subsequent Bachelor?” Dakota requested in his personal video, additionally mouthing alongside to Lohan's sound.
“Hello, my identify is Lindsay and I'm trying to find love,” Lohan, 39, initially stated, in a parody of The Bachelor. “I'm not too long ago single, I believe, and I'm searching for somebody I can spend the remainder of my life with — or a minimum of the remainder of my probation with. A little bit about me: I'm an actress, a singer [and] an entrepreneur.”
Taylor not too long ago instructed Us Weekly that she hadn't knowledgeable Dakota of her Bachelorette casting forward of the Wednesday, September 10, “Name Her Daddy” announcement.
“I've not confirmed it with him. It's simply not one thing that's been on, like, my precedence listing to substantiate with him,” she solely instructed Us. “I don't know precisely how he'll react or really feel, however he does know that we opened the gates of courting different folks. [He'll] in all probability [be] unhappy. I assume that it's like, ‘Whoa, she's gonna be courting folks, so much, after which additionally, in entrance of me,' and that's in all probability gonna be sort of onerous to observe.”
Taylor continued, “I can't communicate for him, however I'd assume it wouldn't be one of the best information he's heard on that day.”
Taylor and Dakota share 17-month-old son Ever, whereas the MomTok influencer additionally coparents daughter Indy, 7, and son Ocean, 4, with ex-husband Tate Paul.
As Taylor begins her Bachelorette journey, she's not afraid to confess that she hopes she'll be engaged by the finale.
“Positively, that's the aim right here, and as my mother likes to say [that] I do fall in love shortly, and that's additionally the rationale I did it,” Taylor stated. “I at all times name myself a lover lady as a result of I, like, fall for folks and I've accomplished that previously. Clearly, I obtained married younger, and the primary man I dated was my second child daddy — so it was simply very fast.”
She added, “I'm going to take my time [and] get to know folks. Possibly I discovered issues I didn't like or do like that I didn't even know. So I believe that is gonna be actually good for the long-term impact.”
Taylor's season of The Bachelorette airs in 2026.
