Shame on ABC for casting Taylor Frankie Paul on The Bachelorette theyre getting what they deserve
Imagine that you are the producer of a network reality TV show about finding love.A spinoff, your program has been chugging along for 23 long years over 21 seasons.But ratings have been slipping and you need to spice things up.Then it hits you: That TikToker from that other reality TV show about mormons! She has 6.1 million followers, and she’s a mess.
Let’s hire her!Who cares that she pleaded guilty in August to felony aggravated assault against her former boyfriend in 2023 and is on probation? That’s interesting! So what that the police report plainly says one of the two pieces of metal furniture she hurled at him hit her five-year-old child? Cops said the little girl had a “goose egg” on her head.Meh.
That was three years ago.Nobody died. Another show already put this obviously troubled woman on TV.
And so will you.You are desperate, soulless and disgusting.
That’s what makes you so good at your job.Then, just three days before the big premiere, the shocking video footage drops on TMZ.And the backlash is ferocious. Everything that happens on the grisly three-and-a-half-minute clip, you and the world already knew about.The altercation was even a plotline on the other reality TV show. But now its true repulsiveness is clearly visible and out there for everyone to see.
The horrible optics are impossible to overcome.You’re forced to scrap the entire season, perhaps indefinitely, losing your struggling network a reported $30 million.Most of you would probably not be so stupid and reckless.But that’s exactly what happened this week to the Imbeciles of the Year over at ABC who brought on ticking time bomb Taylor Frankie Paul for Season 22 of “The Bachelorette.” They knew exactly what they were getting into, and the morons did it anyway. Season 22 was supposed to premiere on Sunday night.
Instead, adding to the bleakness, ABC will air a rerun of “American Idol.” Now, the network and “Bachelorette” team are caught in an ...