By Page Six | Created at 2026-09-03 15:19:12 | Updated at 2026-09-15 01:07:09
1 week ago
Not so secret.
Taylor Frankie Paul accepted a marriage proposal at the end of her axed “Bachelorette” season, she reveals during the upcoming Season 5 of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.”
In the clip featured on Thursday’s episode of Hulu’s “Get Real” podcast, Paul tells co-stars Jessi Draper, Mikayla Matthews and Mayci Neeley that a suitor — presumably Doug Mason — did “get down on one knee and propose.”
However, she noted that there was major drama shortly after returning home.
“[I said,] ‘Yes.’ Yes, I did [get engaged],” she told her friends. “Then, I come home. Obviously [me and ex Dakota Mortensen] were texting. ‘When are you going to be home?’ I don’t know how it led to it, but he came over.”
“Umm … I think I know how that happened,” Matthews quipped.
Although Paul never confirmed Mason was the contestant who got her final rose, the “SLOMW” ladies did point out that the mystery man has the “same initials” as Mortensen.
Taylor swore she was initially unaware of the many similarities between Mason and Mortensen, but her castmates were skeptical.
“I didn’t start thinking that until people said it around me,” she insisted.
“They have the same initials. They’re both from Idaho. It’s so weird,” Draper pointed out.
ABC decided to cancel Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette” after a leaked video showed a horrifying 2023 domestic dispute between her and Mortensen.
The trailer for the upcoming Season 5, released in late September, confirmed the show will dive into the aftermath of that decision and the never-ending drama between Paul, 32, and Mortensen, 33, who share a 2-year-old son, Ever.
In one shocking scene, Mortensen admits he is “obsessed” with Paul before flaunting a tattoo he got of her initials.
As for the rumored “Bachelorette” winner, Page Six reported in April that Mason and Paul were allegedly giving their relationship another chance.
At the time, insiders claimed the two “were hanging out recently and want to see if they can get back together and be a couple.”
Since then, Paul and Mortensen have been locked in a nasty custody battle over Ever after several alleged incidents of domestic violence.
The “MomTok” member lost temporary custody of Ever on March 19 following the investigation into another alleged domestic violence incident in February.
The two have battled it out in court and at the last custody hearing in July, Paul got her parenting time expanded.
Season 5 of “SLOMW” premieres on Hulu on Sept. 10.
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