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Taylor Frankie Paul is reportedly involved in a \u201cdomestic assault investigation\u201d with her ex, Dakota Mortensen (with allegations made in \u201cboth directions\u201d).ABC reportedly still plans to go ahead with The Bachelorette, which is scheduled to premiere on March 22.Sources tell TMZ that the network was blindsided, and have hired a crisis PR manager.<\/p>\n
Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s upcoming and very buzzy season of The Bachelorette is scheduled to premiere in just a couple days on March 22, and suddenly the timing could not be worse. News recently broke in TMZ<\/a> that Taylor and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, had a \u201cblowup\u201d so \u201cintense\u201d that production was halted on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 5\u2014which is currently filming in Utah.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a spokesperson from the Draper City Police Department told People<\/a> that there\u2019s an open “domestic assault investigation” regarding Taylor and Dakota, that “allegations have been made in both directions,” and that “contact was made with involved parties on [Feb] 24th and 25th.”<\/p>\n So\u2026will ABC still air The Bachelorette? According to Variety<\/a>, “the investigation will not impact the release schedule or press plans for The Bachelorette.” However, TMZ<\/a> reports that producers were blindsided and that \u201cABC has hired a public relations crisis manager to handle the fallout.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, info on how Taylor\u2019s season ends have been released by longtime Bachelor Nation spoiler source Reality Steve. You can read about who wins Taylor\u2019s season, if they got engaged, and whether or not they are still together, below.<\/p>\n Related Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Frankie Paul is reportedly involved in a \u201cdomestic assault investigation\u201d with her ex, Dakota Mortensen (with allegations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[179267,2115,179495,2117,156,2462,111,139,69,179496,179494,158515,437],"class_list":["post-334774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-bachelor-nation","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-a505fd03-c156-4e7b-b979-59dc6ab50240","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-us","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-read_time-1","tag-shorttitle-is-the-bachelorette-still-going-to-air","tag-subsection-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}