Jon Stewart hopes you’ve had a pleasant weekend…
“as a result of the dizzying, chaotic carnival trip that’s Donald Trump‘s America continues to careen down shitshow hill. It’s fucking insanity on the market: TSA traces longer than your precise journey; escalating threats within the Center East; planes driving into vehicles.”
The truth is, “the one factor giving me pleasure is trying ahead to this season of The Bachelorette,” he paradoxically quipped. “I imply, they’ve acquired a robust Mormon lady. She appears beautiful. I hope that she finds love—maintain on a second, I’m getting a name. Nooo!”
Stewart’s joke comes after scandal has rocked each Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and ABC’s The Bachelorette, following allegations that star Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex Dakota Mortensen had been embroiled in a home assault incident. As fallout started mounting, filming was suspended on the fifth season of Mormon Wives.
Additional turmoil adopted when a horrific video from 2023, of an aggressive incident between the couple the place a toddler is current, dropped on TMZ. As such, Disney subsidiary ABC pulled the plug on Season 22 of the truth relationship collection, days earlier than its scheduled premiere. “In gentle of the newly launched video simply surfaced right this moment, we’ve made the choice to not transfer ahead with the brand new season of The Bachelorette right now, and our focus is on supporting the household,” the corporate famous in an announcement.
Now, Disney is determining whether or not it would ever air the Paul-fronted season of the long-running relationship present, whether or not the pause has any longer-term implications for the franchise, if and when it would restart manufacturing on Season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Season 6 has additionally already been greenlit) and easy methods to assist Paul and Mortensen over the following few weeks and months.
