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NextImg:'The View's Joy Behar shades Taylor Frankie Paul's new gig as 'The Bachelorette': "Will these bachelors line up to be baby daddy number three?"

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Taylor Frankie Paul leading the next season of The Bachelorette has gotten mixed reactions from fans—and the ladies on The View.

On this morning’s episode of the hit daytime talk show, Joy Behar wondered how Paul, of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives fame, and her “baggage” would fare on the long-running reality dating show.

“She has three kids and two baby daddies, so will these bachelors line up to be baby daddy number three?” Behar asked, earning some groans from the audience. “Isn’t that the whole point of the show? To find your lover and get married? OK, well she’s got a little bit of baggage now.”

Paul, an OG founder of MomTok, went viral in 2022 when she not only announced that she and her husband were getting a divorce, but that they had also been soft-swinging with their other Mormon friends. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives documented the aftermath of Paul’s swinging scandal, as well as her tumultuous relationship with her then-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen, with whom she shares one child (her third and his first).

Now that she and Mortensen are also separated, Paul is ready to find love on The Bachelorette.

“I was very conflicted about this,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said on The View, noting that the show’s leads are always chosen from within the Bachelor franchise.

Taylor Frankie Paul of 'Mormon Wives'
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“She’s had a colorful past,” Griffin continued, likely referring to Paul’s 2023 domestic violence arrest. “I don’t judge a woman for having kids with different men. She’s had a pretty challenging life. You get a glimpse into her family if you’ve watched Mormon Wives. It’s tough. They navigate a very restrictive religion. She stepped out of the faith and now is trying to find herself.”

However, Griffin added, “What I do love about her and why I think she’ll be excellent [is] she’s super authentic and she’s extremely chaotic and those are both great for reality TV.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.