Over the Influence

Over the Influence

All My Thoughts on Bachelorette Taylor Frankie Paul's Latest Chaos

Most of us saw this coming

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Jo Piazza
Mar 20, 2026
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Now onto Taylor Frankie Paul. I wasn’t gonna write about this today, but then I just didn’t have a choice. Sigh.

And I want to preface this by saying I don’t condone violence. I don’t think we should throw bar stools. I do think people should be held accountable for their behavior. I also don’t particularly like Taylor Paul. I think she’s the worst kind of pick-me media obsessed, attention hog who will do anything to be famous.

But I do really wish we didn’t currently live in a world where we hold the Bachelorette to a higher standard than the President of the United States, but alas, this is our current timeline and we have to slog on.

I did love ABC’s decision to cast Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul as the newest bachelorette because I knew from the get go that it would be a shitshow circus and that makes for the best kind of reality television. I didn’t think it would be over before it actually began, but we all could have seen it coming.

Below are ALL my thoughts on this chaotic train wreck of a scandal.

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