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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Production will resume after a temporary hiatus initiated by an internal investigation surrounding Taylor’s Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen. Hollywood Reporter I’ve learned.
Casting details were not provided, leaving Paul’s fate with the show unclear. Details regarding when the cameras will be picked up have also not been determined.
It is worth noting that the news of the resumption of production on Mormon wives It arrives a day before Hulu’s Gel Real House on Wednesday, which will highlight the streamer and ABC’s unscripted slate.
Reports have emerged that the Emmy-nominated Hulu series has halted filming on its upcoming fifth season in mid-March, amid an alleged domestic incident involving… Bachelorette The star and her ex-husband.
A spokesman for the Draper City Police Department said at the time the people That there is an “open domestic assault investigation” between Paul and Mortensen. They added that “there are allegations in both directions,” and “the concerned parties have been contacted.” [Feb.] 24 and 25.”
After the alleged incident was made public, a video of the events leading up to Paul’s arrest was leaked before 2023, showing the reality star throwing barstools at Mortensen while her daughter was present. Hours later, ABC decided to pull Season 22 of the series Bachelorettethree days before the scheduled premiere on March 22.
The next day after the video was published on TMZ, NBC News obtained audio of the March 7 Zoom call with Mormon wives The cast and three Disney executives expressed concerns about continuing the series with Paul amid the investigation. THR Confirm it Mormon wives The production launched its own investigation into the conflicting claims. Mormon wives Filming was scheduled to remain on pause until completion.
On March 25, NBC News reported that Paul was under investigation for a third alleged domestic violence incident, also involving her ex-husband Mortensen, which allegedly occurred in 2024. (All three alleged incidents involved Paul and Mortensen.)
However, on April 7, Paul filed for a temporary restraining order against Mortensen, which was granted. In Paul’s file, which THR She recounted several allegedly abusive incidents involving Mortensen, including a February 23 incident in which she said he “became physically violent,” slamming her head into the dashboard of his truck. (The file included photos of Paul’s bruises and screenshots of text messages between the two.)
On April 14, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office revealed that they would not file new charges against Paul following separate investigations by the Draper Police Department and the West Jordan Police Department.
The cameras weren’t ready when it was Paul’s season Bachelorette It was pulled by ABC, but that’s not the only news from Mormon wives Cast not filmed amid production shutdown. Notably, Jesse Draper’s husband filed for divorce (on the same day Paul’s season was plucked from the air), and Draper was also spotted with Miranda Hope’s ex-husband.
The businesswoman and reality star went to Alex Cooper’s Call her father podcast on March 25 to discuss her split from her husband, and also addressed the recent headlines surrounding Paul W Mormon wives.
Draper spoke about the halt in filming, explaining that there were two production halts in the fifth season. The first hiatus from production came “when we found out he had filed a police report. So this was before he blew up,” she explained, referring to the news that the Draper City Police Department had launched a second domestic assault investigation after the February incident involving Paul and Mortensen.
The second stop in production came from Mormon wives Draper said. “Just before the news broke, but we knew it was probably going to happen, we girls decided, so we went to production and the network and they were all very supportive,” she said.
She explained: “The girls and I decided to stop filming when we found out, because we started hearing things a little before they leaked, and we didn’t want to film and say the wrong thing in front of the camera, because we don’t know the whole story yet.” “We didn’t want to process all this information for the first time and then talk about it as well. So we thought just for the sake of everyone’s mental health, let’s take a beat and not film right now.”
the Mormon wives The star admitted that she didn’t know what all the news surrounding Paul meant for the future of the Hulu show, but they were waiting for the dust to settle before returning to filming. However, she then noted that she might feel comfortable using the cameras since the information is now publicly available.
Draper explained, “I think now we’ve gotten to a point where we’re saying, ‘Okay, the world knows and the information is out there, so now we’re good and we can talk about the things we know and we can talk about them in a real way,’ instead of before, we were saying, ‘We don’t even know if this is going to be published,’ so we didn’t know if we could even talk about it when we were filming. Now, we can.”
