Seize your popcorn — as a result of The Bachelorette hasn’t even began filming but, and there’s already drama offscreen. After ABC revealed Taylor Frankie Paul’s potential lineup of suitors for the upcoming season, all eyes turned to not one among her new males, however to her ex, Dakota Mortensen, who couldn’t resist dropping just a few messy feedback on-line.
It began when TikToker Zachary Actuality shared a video breaking down the brand new batch of contestants vying for Taylor’s coronary heart. The twist? Lana Del Rey’s ex-fiancé is reportedly amongst them. However Dakota determined to make issues about him, leaving a now-viral remark that learn, “Making me wanna go win my child momma again.”
Naturally, Zachary reposted the comment in one other TikTok, alongside a number of photographs of Dakota in a red-flag Halloween costume — a becoming selection, some may say.
Dakota’s remark wasn’t the primary time he’s made waves since Taylor was introduced as the brand new Bachelorette. When the 31-year-old mother of two sat down with “Name Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper to speak about her love life, Dakota jumped into the dialog — actually, within the feedback part.
@zacharyreality OMG TFP MEN 🌹 #thebachelorette #bachelornation #taylorfrankiepaul #zacharyreality #males
“It’s over and we’ll see that play out,” Taylor advised Alex, including that she “can’t keep in mind off the highest of my head” the final time she and Dakota attached, although she guessed it could have been “Stagecoach and one after.”
Dakota shortly fact-checked her reminiscence, writing, “1 or 2 occasions….Acquired it lol.”
Afterward, he took to his Instagram Tales to put up a cryptic message that learn, “Had so many curve balls in the present day and each time I’m at all times reminded there’s nothing extra essential than God and household ❤️ Life is just too brief.”
Taylor, who was formally introduced as the brand new Bachelorette throughout her Name Her Daddy look, advised Us Weekly that she hasn’t reached out to Dakota immediately about her new position.
“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 admitted. “I don’t know precisely how he’ll react or really feel, however he does know that we opened the gates of relationship different individuals. [He’ll] in all probability [be] unhappy. I assume that it’s like, ‘Whoa, she’s gonna be relationship individuals, rather a lot, after which additionally, in entrance of me,’ and that’s in all probability gonna be sort of arduous to look at.”
She added, “I can’t converse for him, however I’d assume it wouldn’t be the very best information he’s heard on that day.”
Taylor and Dakota’s relationship has been something however easy. The influencer first rose to fame after her involvement in a “comfortable swinging” scandal throughout the Mormon mother group whereas she was nonetheless married to Tate Paul. After her divorce, she started relationship Dakota, a relationship that unfolded publicly — and dramatically — on Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
The pair’s romance ended following Taylor’s 2023 home violence arrest, which led to a number of fees together with aggravated assault. She finally pled responsible to the assault cost whereas the others had been dropped.
