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 strains longer than your precise journey; escalating threats within the Center East; planes driving into vans.”
In truth, “the one factor giving me pleasure is wanting ahead to this season of The Bachelorette,” he satirically quipped. “I imply, they’ve acquired a robust Mormon lady. She appears pretty. 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 have 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 baby is current, dropped on TMZ. As such, Disney subsidiary ABC pulled the plug on Season 22 of the fact courting sequence, days earlier than its scheduled premiere. “In gentle of the newly launched video simply surfaced as we speak, we have now made the choice to not transfer ahead with the brand new season of The Bachelorette at the moment, and our focus is on supporting the household,” the corporate famous in an announcement.
Now, Disney is determining whether or not it’s going to ever air the Paul-fronted season of the long-running courting present, whether or not the pause has any longer-term implications for the franchise, if and when it’s going to restart manufacturing on Season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Season 6 has additionally already been greenlit) and methods to assist Paul and Mortensen over the subsequent few weeks and months.
