ABC Cancels Bachelorette Season, Prioritizes Family Support

0:00It's March 23rd. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News, AI-powered stories from the world of fame. I'm Corey with the story. ABC made a last-minute switch this week, pulling the premiere of Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette, and airing a rerun of American Idol. Instead, fans were expecting the dating show to launch on March 22nd, but the network announced the change on March 19th after a video from, 2023 surfaced, showing a physical fight between Paul and her then-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. Disney Entertainment, which owns ABC, decided not to go ahead with the season, saying their priority is supporting the family involved. Paul's team called the video release part of an effort to damage her reputation amid her rising fame from reality TV. She shares a young son with Mortensen and has two other children from her previous marriage, leaving the future of her TV projects up in the air for now.